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Meet UConn’s Newest Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors

The Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor designation recognizes extraordinary achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service.

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UConn Magazine: The Last Cookie in the Box

Arthur M. Horwitz dates his hall-of-fame journalism career not to his appointment as the editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Daily Campus but to his days on a New Haven paper route

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Study Finds Positive Aging Videos Affected Women’s Views of Getting Older – For the Better

Researchers theorize that having a positive aging role model might be enough to change one’s own thinking: 'If they look good with gray hair, I might too'

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UConn Institute Helps Launch Statewide Hate Crime Reporting Campaign

The campaign, led in part by UConn’s Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, is helping Connecticut residents understand hate crimes, learn where to report incidents, and support prevention, accountability, and data collection.

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Former WWE President George Aldo Barrios ’87 Offers Career, Life Advice in New Book

'Life, as I’ve learned, always has more to throw at you. You know what I say? Bring it on'

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Celebrating Mothers and Fathers, but Who Cares?

UConn sociologist Kim Price-Glynn took a look at the organizations that parents turn to when they themselves need care

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2026 Human Rights Institute Funding Awards Announced

HRI is proud to award more than $130,000 through its annual funding competitions, supporting human rights scholarship and research across the university

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InCHIP Research Forum Connects UConn Researchers, Community Partners

InCHIP Community-Engaged Health Research Forum funds three innovative pilot research projects focused on community needs

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Helping Huskies Rise

Can belonging be the breakthrough?

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Doubling the Data Gathered from Dark Patches of Space

UConn Ph.D student’s program selected for observation time on our most powerful space telescope