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UConn Gifts Clean Air: 150 DIY Indoor Air Filters Distributed to Connecticut Community for Protection from Wildfire Air Particles
You can learn online from UConn how to build your own DIY air purifier device with just $60 worth of hardware store supplies and 30 minutes of your time.
UConn Health Giving Away 100 DIY Indoor Air Filters to Public for Protection from Wildfire Air Particles
Today's distribution of the inexpensive DIY air filters on June 8 will be first-come, first-serve from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Outpatient Pavilion's ground floor COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic. Can't make it? Learn from UConn how to build your own device at home with just $60 worth of hardware store supplies and in 30 minutes.
Get to Know Endocrinologist Dr. Francesco Celi, New Chair of the Department of Medicine
NIH-funded Physician-Scientist Francesco S. Celi, MD, MHSc is the new chair of the Department of Medicine at UConn School of Medicine and UConn Health
UConn Health Faculty and Students at the Inaugural Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Research Day
The University of Connecticut celebrated its first cross-campus TRHT Research Day.
Power of Growing Diversity: Meet OB/GYN Resident Dr. Chioma Ogbejesi
“Medicine is not as diverse as it should be. It was incredibly helpful to me to have mentors,” says Dr. Chioma Ogbejesi, a future OB/GYN surgeon in her third-year of residency training at UConn School of Medicine. She was the first medical student in the new, growing Visiting Externships for Students Underrepresented in Medicine (VESUM) program to match to a UConn residency.
UConn John Dempsey Hospital Recognized for Medical Excellence with National CareChex® Awards
Five national 2023 CareChex® Awards honor UConn's medical excellence in coronary bypass surgery and neurological care.
Veteran Keeps His Memorial Day Plans Thanks to UConn Health Heart Doctors
Days after his minimally-invasive TAVR heart procedure at UConn Health, Navy Veteran Bill Rood is grateful to participate in upcoming Memorial Day events
Doctors Academy at UConn Health Making Dreams Come True
Graduates of the Health Career Opportunity Programs were celebrated at its annual closing ceremony. Mark Manson, a senior at Bloomfield High School, has dreamed of becoming a doctor since he was four years old and is now UConn bound to earn both his undergraduate and medical degrees.
UConn Students Help Thousands by Surveying Patients for Social Determinants of Health in Waiting Rooms
The UConn Health Leaders Program, co-founded by Dr. Henry Siccardi '23 MD/MPH, who is remaining at UConn Health for internal medicine residency training, has been a success in just three years
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Awarded Inaugural DEI Award of the Society for Biomaterials
Laurencin is recognized for promoting anti-racism and creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for historically excluded groups in the field of biomaterials.