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Animated UConn students wearing masks.

UConn Magazine: Our Defining Moments

These Huskies — students, staff, professors, doctors, nurses, and graduates new and old —are finding innovative ways to help us all navigate a global pandemic.

Goodbye, Handshake. Hello, LMG

With handshakes on hold because of the pandemic, UConn researchers offer a germ-free way to greet each other in person.

Fire salamander by a mountain stream

‘Evolution Makes the World Less Ragged’

Although evolution and ecological systems have long been distinct areas of study, UConn researchers say there's compelling evidence to suggest the two are closely connected.

A Mexican restaurant adapts to the Covid-19 lockdown. The owner hands an order to a customer outside the restaurant; they are both wearing gloves and masks.

Op-Ed: This Simple Model Shows the Importance of Wearing Masks and Social Distancing

An actuarial tool developed by UConn researchers helps people understand the effect that various social distancing and personal protective measures can have on the spread of COVID-19.

nurse with custom-fitted frame over her mask

UConn-made COVID-19 Mask Solution Coming to Market

Licensing deal with Connecticut Biotech of South Windsor enables commercial production of custom-fit mask frames developed by UConn’s Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering.

UConn alumn putting bags of groceries into car trunk.

UConn Magazine: Local Hero

Louis Goffinet ’17 (CLAS) offered in a Facebook post to shop for elderly neighbors. Two months later he was still shopping, and overseeing a $30,000 Neighbors Grocery Fund.

Cropped shot of a female doctor showing result of radiography on digital tablet to patient and giving diagnosis. Doctor talking to patient about medical treatment after surgery.

Buzzing to Rebuild Broken Bone: It’s Electric!

A group of biomedical engineers from UConn have developed a scaffold of non-toxic polymer that generates a controllable electrical field to encourage bone growth.

School of Nursing students in the Clinical Learning Simulation Center of the Widmer Wing of the School of Nursing.

$3 Million Grant to Help Students with Disadvantaged Backgrounds Become Nurse Practitioners

The UConn School of Nursing has won a $3 million grant to a launch a program aimed at increasing diversity among health care providers in underserved communities.

Female hands type onto laptop; learning during a pandemic.

Reading and Language Arts Center Champions Literacy Amid Pandemic

The Neag School of Education's Reading and Language Arts Center is helping schools around the state in the pandemic-caused shift to online learning.

The UConn sign in Storrs, lit up at night, with light steaks from passing traffic

A Message to UConn About Plans for Fall 2020

A message to the UConn community with details about plans for the Fall 2020 semester.