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December 2019

December 27, 2019

Lobo Named Recipient of NCAA Silver Anniversary Award
December 26, 2019

Virtual Resource Helps Older Adults Find Their Place
December 24, 2019

UConn Magazine: A Feast for the Mind
December 23, 2019

Ketogenic diet protects fruit fly brains from concussions
December 20, 2019

Popular Gyms Undermining Health with Tanning Beds, UConn Researcher Says
December 20, 2019

Delivery of Healthy Donor Cells Key to Correcting Bone Disorder, UConn Researchers Find
December 20, 2019

Louanne Cooley LAW ’20 Joins UConn COP25 Fellows
December 20, 2019

Season’s Greetings, UConn-Style
December 19, 2019

Meet undergraduate student Alexa Kugler
December 19, 2019

Natural Resources and the Environment and USGS study groundwater nitrogen in Farmington River watershed
December 19, 2019

Wawa Gatheru, UConn’s First Rhodes Scholar, Honored by State Leaders at Capitol
December 18, 2019

John Lof Leadership Academy Inducts Second Cohort
December 18, 2019

Clinton Couple Smiles Again Thanks to UConn Dentists
December 18, 2019

UConn Health Minute: Emergency Cardiac Care
December 18, 2019

Op-ed: Why Your Generic Drugs May Not Be Safe and the FDA May Be Too Lax
December 17, 2019

Michel Appointed Synchrony Financial Chair for Cybersecurity
December 16, 2019

Synchrony Digital Technology Center Dedicated; Gift to Connecticut Commitment Announced
December 16, 2019

Asthma Severity Linked to Microbiome of Upper Airway
December 16, 2019

$500K NSF Grant Funds Interdisciplinary STEM Education Research
December 16, 2019

Holidays at UConn: Reviving a Hartford Tradition
December 16, 2019

Speaking the Same Language for Deaf Children of Hearing Parents
December 16, 2019

A Bug Life
December 13, 2019

CEIN/BS Students Celebrate Pinning, Commencement
December 13, 2019

Mighty Mice Head to Space on Important Health Mission
December 13, 2019

UConn Bands: Kids That Fly
December 12, 2019

Meet undergraduate student Maia Moscova
December 12, 2019

Nutritional sciences researcher studies sugar kelp to prevent and treat obesity
December 12, 2019

UConn Receives $3M Gift For Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research
December 12, 2019

Micro-RNAs Keep Stem Cells From Growing Up Too Fast
December 11, 2019

UConn Health January 2020 Programs, Events

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