Campus

Celebrating UConn’s Class of 2021

A tribute to a class who made the seemingly impossible look easy

May 3, 2021 | Tom Breen

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City of Stamford, Stamford Partnership Gift Will Help Fight Food Insecurities

The Mayor's Humanitarian Community Fund provided a gift of $10,000 to create the UConn Stamford Food Insecurity Fund.

May 3, 2021 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Community Impact
An artist's rendering of the planned ice hockey arena to be built in Storrs.

UConn Moving Forward to Build New On-Campus Ice Hockey Rink

Groundbreaking for the new facility will be May 22

April 30, 2021 | Stephanie Reitz

Athletics University News
Avery Point pitcher on the mound

Avery Point Baseball Makes Elliot Ballpark Its Home For a Day

The Pointers make a 'home away from home' visit to the new ballpark in Storrs

April 29, 2021 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Athletics

UConn To Offer Master’s in Fintech To Meet Demands of Rapid Change in Finance Industry

From blockchain to mobile payments, the world of finance is changing, and UConn aims to make students ready for it

April 28, 2021 | Claire Hall

Ecologists are ‘Lichen’ a Surprising New Find on Campus

Next to a well-traveled walkway on the Storrs campus is a sight not seen in Connecticut since William Howard Taft was president: Golden-eye lichen

April 28, 2021 | Elaina Hancock

A cartoon showing a human pulling down a cloud labeled "CO2," illustrating the effort to improve carbon capture technology.

UConn Researchers Search for Scalable Carbon Capture Technology

Studying the promise of a technology that could help in the fight against climate change

April 22, 2021 | Elaina Hancock

Research & Discovery
A scene from “Ensemble,” the MFA thesis project by Hongju (Hannah) Lim, part of the 2021 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition online at The William Benton Museum of Art.

MFA Exhibits at Benton Showcase Work by DMD, Studio Art Students

Work that celebrates the collaboration that can take place in the arts

April 21, 2021 | Kenneth Best

A dancer’s image from the animation of “Prélude en Berceuse,” the first movement of “Au Gré Des Ondes (Along the Waves) “ composed by Henri Dutilleux. The music in the first movement was performed by Morgan Lee ’22 SFA, a doctoral candidate in piano, and animated by Jonathan Goodrich ’21 SFA.

‘Along the Waves’ Puts Music in Motion Through Animation

'Along the Waves' premieres April 21 at 6 p.m. online

April 20, 2021 | Kenneth Best

A bar graph showing the weekly number of COVID-related lawsuits filed since the beginning of the pandemic.

UConn Law Students Help Keep Tabs on COVID-19 Litigation

Getting an in-depth understanding of civil litigation as it unfolds in real time

April 20, 2021 | Camille Chill