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Sophomores Megan Williams '20 (CLAS) and Meghan Palumbo '20 (ENG) move in to NextGen Hall. (Bret Eckhardt/UConn Photo)

Move-in Day at UConn

Sophomores Megan Williams '20 (CLAS) and Meghan Palumbo '20 (ENG) move in to NextGen Hall.

From left, freshmen Ryan Wellington '21 (BUS), livia Knuth '21 (CAHNR), Bryant Cuapio '21 (SFA), Cassidy Colosi '21 (CLAS), Everett Grethel '21 (SFA), and Prachi Udeshi '21 (CAHNR) at the Student Union. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn’s Strength Draws Talented New Freshmen Across Campuses

More students have enrolled at the regional campuses this year, drawn by the opening of the new downtown Hartford Campus and new student housing at the Stamford Campus.

Thousands of students will be returning to UConn campuses across the state over the coming few days, in preparation for the start of classes on Aug. 28. (Sean Flynn/UConn File Photo)

UConn Students Move into Storrs, Stamford Residence Halls This Weekend

Thousands of students will return to UConn campuses across the state over the next few days. Logistics of move-in weekend on the Storrs campus are expected to be more challenging than usual due to road construction.

Maddox Bruening, a 13-year-old from South Glastonbury, Connecticut, was introduced as the newest member of the Husky team at a press conference that included his parents, Joey and Sherry, as well as the UConn coaching staff and team.

Men’s Soccer Team Welcomes 13-Year-Old

UConn received a special National Letter of Intent from Maddox Bruening of South Glastonbury, Connecticut, who joined the program through his participation in Team IMPACT,

Page of a dictionary, with focus on the word 'atheism.' (Getty Images)

Why (We Think) Atheists are More Likely to be Serial Killers

There is a global moral prejudice against people who do not believe in a god or gods, according to a new study by UConn anthropologist Dmitris Xygalatas and colleagues.

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Engineering Alumna Named to Board of Trustees

Jeanine Armstrong Goiun '87 (ENG) has been elected to serve a four-year term on the Board, beginning in September.

UConn Health researchers developed and patented voltage-sensitive dyes in the lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington. Now they have launched a startup to spread their product, which has potential in the process of drug discovery, beyond academia. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Dyes Detect Disease through Heartbeat Signals

UConn Health researchers who developed voltage-sensitive dyes with potential in the field of drug discovery have launched a startup to spread their discovery beyond academia.

Track and field student-athlete Kyle Milliken '02 at a meet at UConn on April 7, 2001. (Bob Stowell for UConn Athletics)

Memorial Run to Honor Former Track and Field Alum

Join the Kyle Milliken Memorial Run on Sept. 16, a five-mile run in honor of track and field student-athlete and Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken '02 who was killed in action in May this year.

Thousands gather with candles to march along the path that White Supremacists took the prior Friday with torches on the University of Virginia Campus in Charlottesville, United States on August 16, 2017. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Charlottesville: A Message to the UConn Community

'It is my commitment – it is my promise – that this will always remain a university that stands firmly for the virtues of democracy, equality, civil discourse, and human rights,' says President Herbst.

This illustration from 1879 depicts the reaction of a group of indigenous people in South America when the lunar eclipse Christopher Columbus predicted actually happened on Feb. 29, 1504. (Camille Flammarion (Astronomie Populaire 1879) via Wikimedia Commons)

Eclipse as Omen: The Human Response

A UConn philosophy professor who has studied early astronomy across cultures discusses how humans have interpreted eclipses in history.