A three-year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications. [More]
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By Mary Ellen Godin MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Cold, tired and frustrated, residents of more than 1.6 million homes in the Northeast remained without power on Tuesday and some were told it could take 10 more days to restore electricity after the rare and deadly October snowstorm. [More]
Read More »Get your own earthquake sensor, and other temblor tips
If you live anywhere between North Carolina and Connecticut, chances are you felt the earth shake a couple of hours ago. [More]
Read More »Chimp attack victim Charla Nash reveals new face
Two years after friend's chimp ripped off her nose, lips, eyelids, and hands, Connecticut woman shows off handiwork of face transplant surgeons
Read More »Edible Arrangements in Legal Hot Water
A franchisee organization claims Edible Arrangements imposed system-wide changes that violated its franchise agreement. A Connecticut judge ruled that a lawsuit against Edible Arrangements, a franchising company that creates fresh fruit arrangements, may proceed in the U.S
Read More »Marketing the Hot Dog
The advent of Connecticut creating an official Hot Dog Trail to encourage tubular-meat tourism begs the question: Does the all-American meal need a boost?
Read More »Best Toiletry Case: Icy Bag
On her wedding day , in the summer of 2002, Kathy Cohen reached into her makeup bag to freshen up and found a red, slimy mess of melted lipstick.
Read More »Building Customer Loyalty
Want your customers to stick to you like glue? Today it takes more than a punch-card or priority line.
Read More »10 Inspiring Success Stories
May is Small Business Month, and to celebrate we're honoring 31 inspiring stories of small business success. Here's a look at ten of them. Chris Zane is in the experience business
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Read More »The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric (preview)
He is one of the world’s best known and most successful entrepreneurs, with hundreds of patents to his name--including the Segway scooter. But you will never see Dean Kamen in a suit and tie: the eccentric inventor dresses almost exclusively in denim. He spent five years in college before dropping out, does not take vacations and has never married
Read More »Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children
Photograph by Jason Grow/Wonderful Machine Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat Movia Robotics CEO and University of Connecticut Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Movia Robotics and UCONN Hartford and Storrs, Connecticut Movia Robotics CEO Gifford, 48, and Bhat, 34, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, use robots to help autistic children develop social and physical skills.
Read More »Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children
Photograph by Jason Grow/Wonderful Machine Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat Movia Robotics CEO and University of Connecticut Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Movia Robotics and UCONN Hartford and Storrs, Connecticut Movia Robotics CEO Gifford, 48, and Bhat, 34, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, use robots to help autistic children develop social and physical skills.
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