School of Nursing

Knock, Knock: UConn Students Making Hartford House Calls with COVID Vaccines

The community initiative is a partnership of CT AHEC, based at UConn Health, with the City of Hartford Department of Health and Human Services, Harriott Home Health Services, and the Hispanic Health Council

School of Nursing graduates

School of Nursing Graduates 107 Bachelor of Science Students, Honors 91 Master’s and Doctoral Candidates

For the first time since 2019, UConn School of Nursing held its May commencement ceremony at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

Herald pipers announce the arrival of the faculty during the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources commencement ceremony at Gampel Pavilion on May 11, 2019. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

2022 Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients

Speakers from a broad range of fields and backgrounds will share their wisdom with UConn's Class of 2022

Husband and wife wearing scrubs and masks.

Husband and Wife Nurses to Walk the School of Nursing Commencement Stage Together

Jill Alsgaard '20 MS and Trung Le '13 (NUR) met while working at UConn Health and are both graduating from the School's master's program

Two portraits of nursing students

Nursing Students Awarded Prestigious F31 Grants from the National Institutes of Health

Tingting Zhao and Bright Eze are researching the neurobehavioral impacts of pain in infants and chronic pain burdens for Black individuals

Sharon Casavant

Nurse Researcher Receives $15,000 Grant from UConn InCHIP to Investigate Inherited Stress in Black Mothers and Preterm Infants

The two-year award will allow Sharon Casavant to examine perceived discrimination, neighborhood vulnerability, and stress among 35 mother-infant pairs

Portraits of Carol Polifroni and Thomas Long

Carol Polifroni and Thomas Long to Retire from UConn School of Nursing

The School will celebrate the faculty members' decades of service at a virtual event on April 20

Behind the Degree: Nursing Ph.D. Student Aims to Expose Health Care Inequities Within the Correctional System

Anne Reeder began to question the quality of the correctional health care system after working in a mid-sized jail in Colorado

Storrs Hall is seen from the opposite side of Swan Lake.

UConn School of Nursing Master’s and DNP Programs Among the Top 5 in New England

U.S. News & World Report ranks the School as No. 34 among nursing master’s programs and No. 40 among DNP programs across the country

Louise Reagan

Nurse Researcher Receives Health Disparities Grant from the American Diabetes Association

Louise Reagan's research is testing a mobile app that will help incarcerated individuals self-manage their diabetes when they reenter society from prison