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UConn's agricultural program has been at the forefront of research in a number of scientific areas. UConn scientists sent experimental tomato plants in the Space Shuttle to study plant growth in zero gravity in 1988. Faculty at the school developed the first high-efficiency poultry feed, “Connecticut Ration.”
The high school, which lies adjacent to campus, was operated by the University of Connecticut until 1987, when it became the regional public high school. [6] E.O. Smith has maintained an Agricultural Science education program since its time as a part of UConn, and junior and senior high school students may take classes for credit on UConn's campus.
The University of Connecticut Libraries form the largest public research collection in the state. The main library is the Homer D. Babbidge Library, on Fairfield Way in the center of campus. In 1882, Charles Storrs donated the first volumes to the university library collection (specifically, of the agriculture school).
Research institutions are a subset of doctoral degree-granting institutions and conduct research. These institutions "conferred at least 20 research/scholarship doctorates in 2019-20 and reported at least $5 million in total research expenditures in FY20 were assigned to one of two categories based on a measure of research activity." [1]
The weekday paper services the main campus of UConn and Storrs, Connecticut community with circulation during the school term. Since its creation, the newspaper has undergone several name changes, having started as The Storrs Agricultural College Lookout , a monthly, when it published its first issue on May 11, 1896. [ 2 ]
The state's flagship public university is the University of Connecticut, [1] which is also the largest school in the state. The remainder of the state's public institutions constitute the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, comprising four state universities, twelve community colleges, and an online school, Charter Oak State College. [2]
The complex is located on the main UConn campus in Storrs, Connecticut. The Dodd Center also houses several University of Connecticut departments and centers, including Archives & Special Collections, a unit of the University of Connecticut Library, the Human Rights Institute, and the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.
The University of Connecticut Graduate Business Learning Center (GBLC) is located at 100 Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, and is home to the business school's Full-time, Part-time and Executive MBA Program offices, classrooms, and conference facilities, as well as the Student Managed Fund, SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator, SCOPE.