Schools & Colleges

New Climate Center at UConn Will Support Weather Innovation, Energy Resilience Research

WISER’s research direction will focus on renewable energy, power outage management, electrical grid resilience, and climate change.

First-year UConn students move into their dorm rooms in the Towers Residence Halls complex during the first day of move-in for the Fall 2023 semester on Aug. 24, 2023.

Welcome Home, Huskies

Move-in got underway this week, as first-year students began moving into the residence halls

Mark R. Terasaki, Ph.D

Mark Terasaki, Ph.D. of UConn Elected a Fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology

In early December Terasaki will be recognized in Boston as a new ASCB fellow at Cell Bio 2023, the joint meeting of ASCB and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

A group of high school students gather with Neag School and East Hartford Public Schools' educators and administrators.

Neag School Expands its Early College Experience Courses, Allowing High School Students to Explore Careers in Education

More than 350 students from 21 partner schools were enrolled in the Neag School's ECE courses in 2022-2023, an increase from 201 students in five districts the year before. 

Wilbur Cross with fall foliage. Oct. 12, 2021.

UConn Welcomes Impressive Class of 2027

The new Huskies come to UConn having already secured a spot amid tight competition in this year’s record-high applicant pool of more than 48,800

A Pride flag in the foreground, with a mental health professional seated in the distance.

Supporting the Mental Health Crisis Workforce to Address the Needs of the LGBTQ+

The UConn School of Social Work’s Innovations Institute has launched a new training program for crisis counselors and first responders

Academic Rotunda

2023 New Appointments of School of Medicine Faculty

This August the Academic Affairs Subcommittee of the Board of Directors at UConn Health announced the new appointments of academic tenure and senior rank for UConn School of Medicine faculty.  

Twenty-six pairs of human chromosomes are displayed on a karyotype chart, with the Y chromosome magnified to show the shape.

Solving for Y: Research Team Completes Long-Anticipated Genome Sequencing of Y Chromosome

Two breakthrough papers published today in Nature, featuring work from acclaimed UConn geneticist Rachel O’Neill and her lab, offer an in-depth analysis of the Y chromosome for the first time

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, A Leader in Point of Care Ultrasound Training, Expands to Training to its Doctors Outside of Emergency Medicine

UConn John Dempsey Hospital and UConn School of Medicine have been at the forefront of teaching and using point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS), drawing instructors throughout the state, and teaching all pulmonary and critical care fellows in Connecticut. This training has expanded to the hospitalists at UConn.

Justin McManus '11 (SFA, ED) '13 MM, right, director of athletic bands, gestures during UConn Marching Band practice at the band field on Aug. 22, 2023.

UConn Marching Band Welcomes Back One of Its Own as New Director

Justin McManus has come full circle, from marching band member to marching band director