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April 23, 2026
Innovation Quest Selects Five Top Startups, Ranging from Manufacturing Innovation to New Hair-Care Option
The student entrepreneurs impressed the judges with both the quality of their ideas and their dedication to bringing them to market
True Stories
UConn Engineering Associate Dean Selected As Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador
Discovering a Favorite Pit Stop and Communication Hub for Cloud Forest Canopy-dwellers
OVPR Launches Business Development Pilot Program
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Recent Articles
Apr. 21, 2026
Farhad Imani Wins NSF CAREER Award to Build Manufacturing Systems That Think
Apr. 20, 2026
TCS Initiative Positions Startups for Growth
Apr. 20, 2026
‘Bouncing Back’ is a Myth – Resilience Means Integrating Hard Experiences into Your Life Story, Not Ignoring Them
Apr. 17, 2026
Massive Eye Drop Recall Reflects Ongoing Issues with Manufacturing and FDA Inspections
Apr. 17, 2026
UConn Magazine: Into the Exosphere
Apr. 16, 2026
UConn To Hold Memorial Service For Students Who Have Passed Away
Apr. 16, 2026
First-Year Business Student Invites UConn Diners to ‘Swipe’ for Easy Dining Hall Nutrition Info
Apr. 16, 2026
From Flames to Fungi: Prescribed Burns and Soil Restoration
Apr. 16, 2026
UConn Business Students Claim ‘Double Victories’ at QuantumUP! Event
Read More
UConn In The News
Acreage Life
Why Every Horse Rider Should Wear a Helmet
The New York Times
Putting Connecticut Artists in the Spotlight
Gramophone
Kenneth Fuchs: Lyricism, Landscape and the American Imagination
BNN Bloomberg
3.1 Million Eye Drop Bottles Recalled in US
Read More In The News
Hear From Our Graduating Class
Countdown to Commencement
Hear From Our Graduating Class
Countdown to Commencement
Looking for More?
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Sign Up For Emails
Follow Us on Social
Connect With Our Experts
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Purpose of Cookies:
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Keeping you logged in
Remembering items in a shopping cart
Saving language or theme preferences
Personalization
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Monitoring browsing behavior for analytics or marketing purposes
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Proves to the website that you’re logged in
Prevents you from having to log in again on every page you visit
Can persist across sessions if you select “Remember me”
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Typically, it contains:
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unique session ID
(not your actual password)
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Analytics Cookies
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are cookies used to
collect data about how visitors interact with a website
. Their primary purpose is to help website owners understand and improve user experience by analyzing things like:
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Which pages are most/least visited
How long users stay on each page
What device, browser, or location the user is from
What They Track:
Some examples of data analytics cookies may collect:
Page views and time spent on pages
Click paths (how users move from page to page)
Bounce rate (users who leave without interacting)
User demographics (location, language, device)
Referring websites (how users arrived at the site)
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Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner.
Go to
Settings
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Choose your preferred option:
Block all cookies
(not recommended, can break most websites).
Block third-party cookies
(can block ads and tracking cookies).
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Open Firefox and click the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner.
Go to
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Under the
Enhanced Tracking Protection
section, choose
Strict
to block most cookies or
Custom
to manually choose which cookies to block.
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Safari
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