Schools & Colleges

Meet the Researcher: Clewiston Challenger, Educational Psychology

Educational psychologist Clewiston Challenger talks about his journey from the gridiron to innovative research about students of color in higher education.

UConn Law students in campus quad

UConn Law Rises to 50 in U.S. News Ranking

UConn School of Law, the top-ranked public law school in the Northeast, has risen to a rank of 50 in the U.S. News & World Report list of Best Law Schools. “While no ranking can capture the full strengths of a law school, we are proud of the steps we have taken to continue improving outcomes […]

Views of campus with foggy weather. (Tom Rettig/UConn Photo)

Neag School Among 2021’s Top 20 Public Graduate Schools of Education

For the fifth consecutive year, the Neag School of Education has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 20 public graduate schools of education in the nation.

Follow Iditarod’s 2020 Teacher on the Trail: Kelly Villar ’06 MA

Kelly (Heffley) Villar ’06 MA, a second-grade teacher for the past 16 years at Southeast Elementary School in Mansfield, Conn., was selected as the Iditarod Teacher on the Trail for 2020. The race officially began March 7, and Villar has been tracking her experience with blog posts and photos on the Iditarod’s Teacher on the Trail blog since arriving in Alaska in February.

Lucy Gilson meeting with students.

For UConn’s Lucy Gilson, Business and Research Are a Natural Fit

UConn's Lucy Gilson says the School of Business is doing vital research, and wants the world to know it.

Q&A: Detecting and Preventing Corporate Tax Loopholes

UConn's Frank Murphy wants to help governments make better tax policies.

Direct hit. A soft x-ray (white) hits a holmium atom (green). A photo-electron zooms off the holmium atom, which releases energy (purple) that jumps to the 80-carbon fullerene cage surrounding the holmium. The cage then also loses an electron. (Courtesy of Razib Obaid)

Radiation Damage Spreads Among Close Neighbors

An experiment has given researchers insight into how radiation may damage living tissue.

UConn T2 Center Provides a Training Hub For All 169 Towns and Cities

Just down the road from our Storrs campus resides the  CT Training and Technical Assistance Center (T2 Center), an invaluable resource providing transportation-related training for all 169 towns and cities across the state.

Portrait of Dorit Bar-On

UConn Researcher Receives NEH Fellowship for Book on Origins of Language

UConn philosopher Dorit Bar-On recently received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on a book about the origins of language.

A logo with a close-up coronavirus microbe.

Collaboration Underway For a COVID-19 Vaccine

A UConn researcher is collaborating with colleagues in an effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.