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Physical education teacher encouraging students doing push-ups. (Hero Images via Getty Images)

UConn Sports Safety Advocates Urge States to Adopt Lifesaving Measures

A new study finds all 50 states lack critical safety policies for high school athletes. Read more.

Rudd Center researcher Jennifer Harris says reducing children’s consumption of nutritionally poor fast food will require much more than just not listing unhealthy items on the menu. (Bret Eckhardt/UConn Photo)

Fast-Food Restaurants Not Promoting Healthy Kids’ Meal Options

Breaking News: Yesterday, McDonald's announced it is making Happy Meals healthier, a move advocated by UConn's Rudd Center. Read more.

Shrinking scandium fluoride. (Yesenia Carrero/UConn Image)

Thermal Funkiness: Explaining the Unexpected

After just one semester of college physics, undergraduate Connor Occhialini performed theoretical calculations that explain why scandium fluoride shrinks when it gets warm. His work has now been published in an elite physics journal. Read more.

Children run through an open fire hydrant to cool off during the kickoff of the 2016 Summer Playstreets Program in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, July, 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Ezra Kaplan via The Conversation)

Heat Waves Threaten City Dwellers, Especially Minorities and the Poor

'One or two degrees may not seem like much, but for especially vulnerable groups like the elderly, the sick, the poor, pregnant women, and infants, it may be enough to tip the scales,' says anthropologist Merrill Singer. Read more.

CT fastrak, Connecticut’s first Bus Rapid Transit system, is a system of bus routes that use a bus-only roadway for all or a portion of the trip.

CT Transit Bus Service Expands to Storrs Campus

The service will enable students, faculty, and staff to travel to UConn Hartford and Union Station, and make connections for UConn Health, other local and express buses, and soon – via commuter rail – to Bradley Airport. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

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UConn in the News

USA Today

Fast-food restaurants pledged to offer healthier options to kids. How have they done?

New York Times

Sports Study: High School Athletes Not Being Fully Protected

New York Times

Biases Against Atheists Emerge in Study

ESPN

UConn’s Chris Dailey to be Honored with Margo Dydek Award

Sports Illustrated

High School Football Player Dies During Drill

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