The Jordan Porco Foundation’s Fresh Check Day has been designated as a best practice for suicide prevention for colleges and universities by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. The Suicide Prevention Resource Center is funded by SAMHSA, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Read MoreConnecticut Innovations (CI) will make investments from the $200 million Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund (CBIF) over the next 10 years in the form of grants, equity investments and loans to speed commercializable bioscience breakthroughs to market.
Read MoreHaving witnesses or recording devices during procedures requiring anesthesia could help prevent opportunities for sexual assault and hallucinations about assaults that did not occur, UConn researchers findings suggest. Data published in UConn Today report on their findings and recommendations.
Read MoreAkiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Dermatology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at the Yale School of Medicine, and an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Connecticut Medal of Science.
Read MoreTiming - and preparation - is everything, Jenna Greenhill, a junior volleyball player and Meteorology major attending Western Connecticut State University found out recently. She now has a prime summer internship lined up, thanks to the skills she’s developed creating weathercasts at the state university in Danbury.
Read MoreAlong with the rest of the U.S., Connecticut residents are not getting enough sleep. Connecticut ranked 24th in insufficient sleep, according to the America's Health Ranking report from the United Healthcare Foundation.
Read MoreTwo Yale University faculty members, Julia Wang and Akiko Iwasaki, are among 46 life science leaders in the United States – in academic, government, business, medicine and nonprofits - to be named to what is described as “the ultimate list of leaders in life sciences.”
Read MoreManufacturing is synonymous with Connecticut. Honoring the state’s more than 350 years of renown as the birthplace of invention, the American Manufacturing Hall of Fame (AMHoF) has announced its first statewide Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held next month.
Read MoreThe University of Saint Joseph is offering a $10,000 scholarship toward the first year at USJ for students who submit a deposit to USJ’s Pharmacy School. The scholarship honors the memory and legacy of the late Professor of Chemistry Sister Mary Ellen Murphy, a renowned scientist and scholar in the fields of space research and chemistry, one of the first women to analyze the moon rocks brought back from the historic Apollo 11 space flight in 1969.
Read MoreThe CT Health Horizons initiative is a collaboration between higher education institutions and healthcare provider partners to grow and diversify the next generation of nurses and social workers in Connecticut.
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