Schools & Colleges
Provost Lejuez, Eight Other Faculty Named As Inductees to CASE
Those elected to CASE were lauded for significant contributions made to their respective fields.
March 5, 2021 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
UConn Offers New Online Master Program in Personalized Nutrition
The Master of Science in Personalized Nutrition will prepare students for promising careers in health care, academia, and industry
March 5, 2021 | Jessica McBride, PhD
There Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People
The payments went to former slave owners and their descendants, not the enslaved or their legal heirs.
March 5, 2021 | Thomas Craemer, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Pregnant ICU Patient Recovers from COVID-19
It was the scariest time of her life for Melissa Vicchitto as she fought COVID-19 in the ICU to save herself and her unborn baby.
March 4, 2021 | Jennifer Walker
High-Profile Brain Tumor Therapy Trial Chooses UConn Health
An immunotherapy derived from the polio virus has shown improved survival rates in early-phase trials in patients with an aggressive type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma. UConn Health will be one of a select few sites in the U.S. for the second phase, which will pair it with the cancer immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda).
March 4, 2021 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Meet undergraduate student Sarah Proto
This article originally appeared on CAHNR Newsroom. By Maria Buzzelli. Sarah Proto, a senior majoring in agricultural and resource economics, was drawn to a few career paths after transferring to UConn. She quickly realized that the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) program offered exactly what she was looking for. Proto is a multifaceted […]
March 4, 2021 | Kevin Noonan
The Research of Difference: How UConn Researchers are Tackling Anti-Racism
Black women and heart disease. Asian Americans and plantations. Slavery and…monsters? Find out how these anti-racism scholars are tackling issues of difference at UConn.
March 4, 2021 | Christine Buckley
Groundwater Information is No Longer Out of Depth
A UConn Ph.D. candidate and a faculty member have developed a novel way of gathering data about streams fed by groundwater that provide important insights about the possible effects of climate change.
March 4, 2021 | Elaina Hancock
Testing the Success of Their Communication Class, Scientists are Surprised
How do you measure the success of a science communication class? The answer is more complex than it may seem.
March 4, 2021 | Kim Krieger
How Safe is Baby Food? Company Reports Show Arsenic, Lead, and Other Heavy Metals
Since the amount of heavy metals varies so dramatically, food choices can make a difference.
March 4, 2021 | C. Michael White, School of Pharmacy