More than 9,000 degrees – both undergraduate and graduate – will be awarded this year, which is the highest number of degrees conferred at UConn in the University's 136-year history.

More than 200 students attended the kickoff for UConn’s sixth annual Innovation Quest (iQ), hoping their dreams of creating a new business will come to fruition. The iQ program offers advice, encouragement and mentoring from experts in business incubation and strategy.

Two business undergraduate students have been honored as among the University's most promising. Kavisha Thakkar is planning a career as a physician, but is also pursuing a dual degree in accounting, so that she can better understand the healthcare-payment system and assist her future patients. Jeffrey Noonan, a finance major, has secured a summer internship with Bain & Co., one of the world's top management strategy consulting firms.

“Mrs. Widmer had developed progressive (for that time) ideas regarding nursing and nursing education. She had little sympathy with the old militaristic views of nursing; believed that patients were individuals, as were nurses and students in nursing . . . ; realized that a broad and deep education was essential to the preparation of the […]

Dear Alumni and Friends: In September, we formally announced the yearlong celebration recognizing University of Connecticut’s School of Nursing 75th Anniversary of excellence in education, practice, policy and research. From a small group of 13 students in 1942 to our current standing in the top 10% of Schools of  Nursing nationally we have much to […]