Schools & Colleges
Risk Management Students Win Prestigious Global Competition
A group of UConn graduate students in financial risk management can now add the title of "international competition champions" to their resumes.
UConn Honored For Promoting Economic Inclusion
The University is the first institution of higher learning to receive an award for its supplier diversity program from the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council.
UConn Health Offers the Latest in Aneurysm Treatment Options
A new minimally invasive procedure has emerged as a safe way to treat certain brain aneurysms, and UConn Health’s Division of Neurosurgery is among its earliest adopters.
UConn School of Business 2018 Faculty Awards
The School of Business recently honored some of its top faculty members for 2018, celebrating their achievements from the classroom to international research discoveries.
Social Work Student Receives Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Award
Trisha-Ann Hawthorne-Noble ’18 MSW received the 2018 UConn Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Award. The award recognizes women students who have excelled academically and demonstrate high achievement in research and service to the University community. The award is given annually and sponsored by the UConn Provost’s Office, Alumni, and the Women’s Center. Dr. Ann Marie […]
‘Conversations’ with Professor Cora Lynn Deibler
Cora Lynn Deibler, Department Head of Art & Art History and Illustration Professor, discusses her latest installment of work at The Benton “Conversations”, her various expressions of art, and her experience as a Professor.
Strain Improves Performance of Atomically Thin Semiconductor Material
UConn materials scientists have shown conclusively for the first time that the properties of atomically thin materials can be mechanically manipulated to enhance their performance. The finding could lead to faster computer processors and more efficient sensors.
A New Approach to Social Resilience – Through Landscape Architecture
A project led by graduate student Tao Wu aims to integrate refugees into the local community, while developing resources they can use.
UConn Engineering Professor to Receive Honorary Degree from the Icahn School of Medicine
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, the University of Connecticut’s 8th University Professor in school history, and a tenured professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, the Materials Science and Engineering Department, and the Biomedical Engineering Department, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on May 11, recognizing his impact and contributions to the medical field and his pioneering work in Regenerative Engineering.
Course provides sweeping look at rise in infectious diseases
From the Black Death that swept through Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century to astrobiology and the potential for humans to encounter alien pathogens, a course taught by Assistant Professor Steven Szczepanek of the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Scienceambitiously explores many aspects of different communicable illnesses in the undergraduate course Emerging Infectious Diseases. The course focuses […]