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September 25, 2026

UConn Storrs

Putnam Refectory. (Gail Merrill/UConn Photo)

UConn in Sierra Club ‘Cool Schools’ Top 10 – Again

UConn is in the Sierra Club 'Cool Schools' Top 10 for the fifth year running, despite a change in survey methodology.

September 6, 2016 | Loretta Waldman - UConn Communications

University News

Glen Canyon Dam. (iStock Photo)

The Man Who Built Environmentalism

A journalism professor’s new biography explores the reckless life of the Sierra Club’s most influential leader, a father of the environmental movement.

September 6, 2016 | Christine Buckley - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The football team enters Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field on Sept. 1, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Huskies Clinch Win Over Maine in Season-Opener

UConn's 37-yard field goal with 11 seconds to go sealed the 24-21 win over the Black Bears Thursday.

September 2, 2016 | Peter Morenus - UConn Communications

Athletics

First Folio, Works by William Shakespeare on display at the Benton Museum on Sept. 1, 2016. (Ryan Glista/UConn Photo)

First Folio Exhibit Opens at UConn

UConn is also presenting a variety of related academic and cultural programs to complement the exhibition.

September 2, 2016 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

Welcome to UConn Nation. Students in the heart of campus. (Angelina Reyes/UConn Photo)

Welcome to UConn Nation

Belonging to UConn Nation means being part of a community that begins on campus and extends worldwide.

September 2, 2016 | Angelina Reyes - UConn Communications

Yulia Kuzovkina-Eischen, associate professor of plant science & landscape architecture, and John Campanelli, a graduate student, inspect the growth of native species planted on DOT property along U.S. RT 6 in North Windham on Aug. 29, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

The Road to Native Vegetation in Highway Design

A graduate student is commercializing new software he developed to make roadside native plantings more successful.

September 1, 2016 | Jessica McBride, Office of the Vice President for Research

Entrepreneurship Research & Discovery

Linebacker Matt Walsh, a senior and one of the 2016 captains of UConn Football. (Stephen Slade '89 (SFA) for UConn)

Football Opens Season Against Maine

Football coach Bob Diaco and the Huskies are optimistic, as their 2016 campaign starts against the Black Bears.

September 1, 2016 | Athletic Communications

Athletics

A view of Next Generation Connecticut Hall on Aug. 27, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Construction Sightings

A roundup of key construction projects this past summer.

September 1, 2016 | Kristen Cole - UConn Communications

Child looking at chips in a bag. (iStock Photo)

Look-alike ‘Smart Snacks’ Confuse Students, Parents

A UConn researcher says selling look-alike Smart Snacks in schools is a tool for marketing junk food brands to children.

August 31, 2016 | Daniel P. Jones, UConn Rudd Center

Community Impact

George Washington from the National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans, Vol. I, 1862. (iStock Image)

UConn Reads: Religion and the Promise of the United States

The subject of religion is as relevant today as it was in the time of the nation's first president.

August 31, 2016 | Cathy Schlund-Vials, UConn Reads Steering Committee

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