Anesthesia Can Cause Disturbing Hallucinations, Lasting Trauma, UConn Researchers Find

Anesthesia Can Cause Disturbing Hallucinations, Lasting Trauma, UConn Researchers Find

Having 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.

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Hartford Creates Expands Creative Economy and Draws Crowds into Hartford

Hartford Creates Expands Creative Economy and Draws Crowds into Hartford

Hartford Creates - an arts mobilization partnership between the City of Hartford and the Greater Hartford Arts Council (GHAC) - has launched the second year of the Hartford Creates initiative.  It is a year-round arts program designed to elevate the creative economy; increase engagement and increase diversity within the arts community; and create access and awareness of the arts through strategic activation.

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Transatlantic InsurTech Corridor Initiative to Launch Second Wave of Participants

Transatlantic InsurTech Corridor Initiative to Launch Second Wave of Participants

Six innovative UK-based businesses are the latest round of insurtechs to have been selected to take part in the InsurTech Corridor US-UK collaboration. The initiative, launched a year ago, is designed to enable insurance industry trade links and drive innovation between the UK and the US insurance industry hub of Connecticut.

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Yale's Akiko Iwasaki Selected as 2023 Recipient of Connecticut Medal of Science

Yale's Akiko Iwasaki Selected as 2023 Recipient of Connecticut Medal of Science

Akiko 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.

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A Day at the Beach, Solid Preparation and Serendipity Are Foundation for Student’s Opportunity

A Day at the Beach, Solid Preparation and Serendipity Are Foundation for Student’s Opportunity

Timing - 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.

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Connecticut Company Launches Product Responding to Safety Hazards of Lithium Batteries

Connecticut Company Launches Product Responding to Safety Hazards of Lithium Batteries

As 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.

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Federal Agencies Urged to Protect Health and Water from Microfiber Pollution; CT Attorney General Leads Call for Action

Federal Agencies Urged to Protect Health and Water from Microfiber Pollution; CT Attorney General Leads Call for Action

Connecticut 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.

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