Schools & Colleges
School of Medicine Celebrates 30 New Honor Medical Society Inductees
The COVID-19 pandemic may have cancelled all in-person ceremonies and celebrations, but it doesn’t stop the UConn School of Medicine from honoring new inductees to UConn’s chapter of a prestigious medical honor society.
May 8, 2020 | Courtney Chandler
START Proof of Concept Awards Announced
Through support from the CTNext Higher Education Fund, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has been able to administer the START Preliminary Proof-Of-Concept (PPOC) Fund to help advance promising technologies towards commercialization. The OVPR has recently finalized award decisions for the first three quarters funding rounds of the program. START recipients are […]
May 8, 2020 | Jessica McBride, PhD
Alpay Named UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
The UConn School of Engineering is proud to announce that S. Pamir Alpay, Associate Dean for Research and Industrial Partnerships, has been named a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, after a vote by the trustees last week. The award recognizes faculty who have achieved exceptional distinction in scholarship, teaching, and service while at the University of Connecticut and has been awarded annually since 1998.
May 7, 2020 | Eli Freund
Meet alumnus Nick Kavadas
Nick Kavadas, a 2019 graduate of the Landscape Architecture program, works as a landscape designer for Milone and MacBroom, a civil engineering and landscape architecture firm. Read about how his academics at UConn prepared him for a career in landscape architecture. What was your major in the College? When did you graduate? With what degree? […]
May 7, 2020 | Kevin Noonan
Scientist, educator, Fulbright Scholar Hedley Freake will deliver Commencement address
Professor Hedley Freake will deliver the Commencement address to the CAHNR Class of 2020 on May 9. After more than three decades as a faculty member in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Hedley Freake plans to retire. He’s not sure what his next chapter will bring. “I’m not looking to fill my time immediately,” he […]
May 7, 2020 | Kim Colavito Markesich
CLAS Class of 2020: Morgan Allegrove-Hodges
The graduating senior says that CLAS helped her to learn and think in a way that will better shape the future.
May 7, 2020 | Samara Dowe '20 (CLAS)
Archiving UConn’s 2020 Pandemic Experience in Real Time for History
University Archives and Special Collections has launched an initiative to capture UConn Nation's reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic as it happens.
May 7, 2020 | Kenneth Best
UConn Health and JAX Partner to Train Future Generation of Genomic Scientists
Researchers at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine are collaborating on a training program for the next generation of genomic scientists.
May 7, 2020 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
Aspiring School Administrators Present Capstone Projects Via Zoom
Neag School students completing the UConn Administrator Preparation Program (UCAPP) this spring presented their change projects — the program’s signature capstone assignment, in which students identify a need or opportunity for school improvement and work toward positive change — during the 6th Annual Change Project Day.
May 6, 2020 | Shawn Kornegay
COVID Challenges for Neurological Conditions
Despite early data suggesting people with multiple sclerosis and others on immunosuppressant medications tend not to have a harder time with COVID-19, the head of UConn Health’s MS program explains what concerns him about these patients during this pandemic.
May 6, 2020 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)