“Connecticut has experienced a bit of a startup renaissance in the past few years.” That’s the opening sentence of a feature published by Inc. highlighting “Start-Ups to Watch in 2024” in the Land of Steady Habits.
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 MoreThe University of Connecticut is one of 20 award recipients nationwide of a 5-year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project to protect and improve the health and well-being of school-age children and adolescents.
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 MoreAs the number of battery-driven technologies continue to increase to keep the multitude of electronic devices charged, so too has the threat of lethal battery fires, raising concerns in Connecticut and beyond. A local company’s innovation aims to increase safety.
Read MoreConnecticut Attorney General William Tong led 16 State Attorney’s General in calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to use the full extent of their authority to protect public health and the safety of our oceans from pervasive plastic microfiber pollution.
Read MoreMore than half of the nation’s citizen, voting-age population voted in 2022 — the second highest turnout for a congressional election in two decades, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is receiving a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a unified, statewide public transit information system for mobile devices.
Read MoreMore than a dozen of the nation’s Attorneys General – including Connecticut’s William Tong – are stepping up efforts against Kia and Hyundai following the companies’ “continued failure to take adequate steps to address the alarming rate of theft of their vehicles.” Overall, the number of auto thefts in Connecticut increased from 5,944 in 2019 to 7,771 in 2021.
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