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October 2012

October 4, 2012

UConn Health Center Boasts Impressive Incoming Classes
October 4, 2012

UConn Health Center Announces Faculty Promotions
October 3, 2012

Firefighters Go Pink
October 3, 2012

Social Psychologist Rick Gibbons Joins UConn Faculty
October 3, 2012

UConn Wins Prestigious Federal Grants to Bolster Graduate Students in Critical Fields
October 2, 2012

Reading Banned Books Aloud Makes Strong Statement
October 2, 2012

A City Girl in South Africa: Training to Become a Nature Guide
October 2, 2012

Calhoun Cardiology Center Goes for Gold
October 1, 2012

Freedom with a Capital F: The CLAS Dean Interviews Stanley Fish
October 1, 2012

Thousands of Pills, Other Meds, Brought in on Drug Take Back Day
October 1, 2012

UConn’s Jewish Data Bank Updates U.S. Population Statistics
October 1, 2012

Famous Photographer and Self-Taught Artist Share the Exhibition Stage

September 2012

September 30, 2012

UConn Health Center October Programs, Events
September 28, 2012

University’s First African-American Professor Dies
September 28, 2012

UConn/Courant Poll: Voters See Economy Through Political Lenses
September 27, 2012

Horizons Video: Hearing and Sound Processing
September 27, 2012

UConn’s Great Lawn Remains Central to Campus Identity
September 27, 2012

UConn Scientists Team Up to Conduct New Cancer Research
September 27, 2012

Wanted: Participants for Historic Cancer Prevention Research
September 27, 2012

Retired Educator Pledges Estate to Endow Scholarship Fund
September 27, 2012

UConn: It Begins with You!
September 27, 2012

Hands-On UConn Course Takes Students on African Journey
September 26, 2012

September Engineering Career Fair a Success
September 26, 2012

FeelGood: Helping to End Hunger
September 26, 2012

Honor an Outstanding Engineer!
September 26, 2012

New GAANNs in Engineering
September 26, 2012

Honoring an Engineering Icon
September 26, 2012

Engineering Partners in Genomics Institute
September 26, 2012

Faculty & Grad Student News
September 26, 2012

Innovation & Technology Initiatives at UConn

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