The Connecticut Office of Manufacturing (OOM), part of the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), has announced a two-year $4.8 million investment from the Manufacturing Innovation Fund, in an initiative with nonprofit ReadyCT to benefit Connecticut students.
Read MoreAlthough 2025 brought challenges to the nation’s innovation landscape, UConn startup companies and entrepreneurs managed to set records and notch milestones.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Medal of Technology - Connecticut's highest honor for technological achievement in fields crucial to our state's economic competitiveness - will be awarded in 2026.
Read MoreIn its 2026 Best Colleges report, Research.com placed Southern Connecticut State University just behind Yale and the University of Connecticut as the leading research institutions in the state.
Read MoreAffter more than a century, The Children’s Museum in West Hartford, the nation’s 5th oldest children’s museum, will not have doors open to children in the region and beyond, as the search for a new permanent home continues.
Read MoreCommunity partnerships are a key component of the University of Hartford’s approach to the higher education provided to students, and during the current academic year new partnerhips have taken root.
Read MoreThe State of Connecticut is making a $50.5 million investment in public infrastructure and facilities in downtown New Haven that are targeted toward propelling growth in the life sciences industry and the emerging sector of quantum technologies. And a new initiative at Yale plans to use quantum technology to send a beam across Long Island Sound.
Read MoreAs the semester is now in full swing on college campuses across the state, two initiatives at Eastern Connecticut State University are gaining notice - in nursing and emergency services.
Read MoreA new report on the Best States for Research and Development in 2025 ranks Connecticut in the top 10 at number seven.
Read MorePhilip Morris International’s U.S. businesses (PMI U.S.) have announced details of their philanthropic investments in Connecticut, with over $2.5 million committed during 2024-2025.
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