An increase in Pell grant recipients at UConn is linked to policies supporting needy students.

Student Health Services director Michael Kurland sent an update Thursday to the UConn community on the H1N1 “swine flu” that is affecting colleges and universities across the nation. “To date, the state Department of Public Health has confirmed about 2,000 cases of H1N1 throughout Connecticut,” wrote Kurland. “Though there is currently a single confirmed case […]

More than 350 University employees took advantage of the state’s Early Retirement Incentive Program by the July 1 deadline. The retirees included 260 staff members, 73 faculty, and 24 non-union managers at the University, including the Health Center. The Storrs and regional campuses lost 63 faculty members, 51 professional staff, 85 classified support staff, and […]

Cherie Blair is the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but she is also an accomplished human rights attorney and advocate for women. During a talk at the UConn School of Law on May 1, Blair discussed human rights, women’s issues, and the importance of attorneys using their careers to offer some benefit […]

When Patricia McCoy was a law professor in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1990s, each day she drove through a neighborhood called Hough that was changing before her eyes. Once stricken by poverty and riots and long-sullied by empty storefronts and ramshackle homes, it began undergoing a transformation, thanks to new public and private investment in the area.