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London Mist Tearrific Ice Cream. (Paul Johnson Photography, courtesy of Tearrific Ice Cream)

Alumnus Creates Some Tearrific Ice Cream

A husband-wife alumni team launched an award-winning business making all natural, tea-infused ice cream, with some initial help from the UConn Dairy Bar.

May 27, 2016 | Abby Mace '16 (CLAS)

Alumni Entrepreneurship
Goodnight UConn! We’re heading back into the wilderness to do some night herping to find some snakes. Thanks for coming with us on our trip! You can keep up with all of our desert adventures by following us @uconnherping

Searching for Creepy Crawlies in the Arizona Desert

Follow a group of UConn students for a day, looking for lizards, snakes, scorpions, and Gila monsters in the Sonora Desert.

May 20, 2016 | Jack Phillips & Harley Pastore, UConn Herpetological Society

UConn Reads 2017 book, Sacred Ground by Eboo Patel on May 16, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn Reads: Our Book, ‘Sacred Ground’

The book chosen for the coming year's UConn Reads program calls on Americans to uphold the country's values of pluralism and inclusiveness.

May 18, 2016 | Cathy Schlund-Vials, UConn Reads Steering Committee

President Barack Obama and UConn Head Coach Geno Auriemma embrace at the White House on May 10, 2016. (Stephen Slade '89 (SFA) for UConn)

UConn Women Return to White House

The President predicted the team will be back, even though he won't be there.

May 11, 2016 | Stephen Slade '89 (SFA)

Athletics
"Thanks for the memories" decorated graduation cap, Class of 2016.

#UConn2016 Caps Off UConn Years

This year's seniors show off their graduation caps.

May 5, 2016 | Combined Reports - UConn Communications

Cap and tassel.

Commencement 2016

The clock is ticking for #UConn16, a cadre of students who will soon transition to alumni. Meet some of them and find out where they are headed after graduation.

April 29, 2016 | Combined Reports - UConn Communications

University News
Manisha Desai, associate professor of women's studies and sociology, meets with Asahi Hoque '16 (CLAS) on Nov. 19, 2013. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Questioning the Scope of Women’s Health Care

An IDEA grant took UConn student Asahi Hoque to Bangladesh to probe the limitations on women's health care in the developing world.

April 28, 2016 | Megan Krementowski '16 (CLAS)

Research & Discovery
A new study shows that support is growing for state and federal laws to protect children from weight-based bullying. (iStock Photo)

Support Increasing for Laws Against Weight-Based Bullying

A UConn researcher says a growing number of parents favor anti-bullying laws to protect children from bullying based on weight.

April 26, 2016 | Daniel P. Jones, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a well-known headquarters for the Civil Rights Movement, was bombed in 1963. Cathy Schlund-Vials reflects on the interconnections between church and state, as the UConn Reads program transitions from last year’s theme of race to the upcoming theme of religion. (Photo by Chris Pruitt (own work), via Wikimedia Commons)

UConn Reads: Race, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement

The chair of the UConn Reads Selection Committee draws connections between last year's theme of race and the upcoming theme of religion.

April 19, 2016 | Cathy Schlund-Vials, Chair, UConn Reads Selection Committee

UConn Voices
Academy of Engineering and Green Technology’s NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, which occurred over the weekend of April 9-10. They won the Rover Challenge Race 2016 Frank Joe Sexton Memorial Pit Crew Award High School Division. The team was led by graduate student Taofeek Orekan, a UConn NSF GK-12 Fellow.

A Vehicle Fit for Space Exploration

A UConn engineering grad student led a team of high school students in the NASA Rover Challenge to build a human-powered 'moonbuggy.'

April 15, 2016 | Combined Reports - UConn Communications

Community Impact Research & Discovery