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June 2020

June 10, 2020

National Recognition for UConn Health Faculty
June 10, 2020

UConn Engineering Joins 30 Universities in Offering Boot Camp Scholarships for Underrepresented Groups
June 10, 2020

A Message From President Katsouleas on Fall 2020
June 10, 2020

UConn Researcher Hopes to Stop COVID-19 in Its Tracks
June 9, 2020

2020 Best Doctors Named by Connecticut Magazine
June 9, 2020

Professor Mathilde Cohen Selected for Fellowship at Princeton
June 9, 2020

Using AI for Novel Thermoset Plastics
June 9, 2020

UConn Faculty Receive NIH Grant to Develop Smartphone Sensor to Detect Tooth Pain
June 9, 2020

New Graduate Fellowship Supports Diverse Voices in Humanities at UConn
June 9, 2020

EAP Director Explores People’s Problems and Concerns During Pandemic
June 8, 2020

UConn Engineering Department Head, Graduate Student Named Women of Innovation Finalists
June 8, 2020

Meet Alumnus Winston Johnson
June 8, 2020

UConn Innovation Fund Invests in Two More University Startups
June 5, 2020

Op-Ed: Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: A New Review of Several Studies Shows Flaws in Research and No Benefit
June 4, 2020

A Commitment from UConn Engineering
June 4, 2020

COVID-19 Testing Headed to Nursing Home Battlegrounds
June 4, 2020

Celebrating Cancer Survivors
June 4, 2020

Meet graduate student Kelsey Arroyo
June 4, 2020

Animal scientist receives University Teaching Innovation Award
June 4, 2020

UConn Now a Platinum and Green University
June 4, 2020

In a Paradise Threatened, Teaching Girls to Be the Change They Want to See
June 3, 2020

Graduating to New Goals This Season
June 3, 2020

Coming out of COVID: Mental Health
June 3, 2020

UConn Professor Tells How Sons of Slaves Overcame Obstacles to Pursue Education
June 3, 2020

UConn and Technion Collaborate on the Development of Next Generation Fuel Cells
June 3, 2020

So You Want to Have a Virtual Conference? Here’s a UConn Professor Who Did It – and is Planning to Do It Again
June 2, 2020

UConn Engineering and Industry Align to Fight COVID-19
June 2, 2020

JLLA workshop goes virtual during the pandemic
June 2, 2020

JLLA responds to COVID-19 and holds first virtual workshop on conflict resolution
June 2, 2020

Examining the COVID-19 Clinical Trial Landscape

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