Schools & Colleges

Growing Palliative Care Team Expands Access into Ambulatory Setting

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and we celebrate the first anniversary of the palliative care inpatient program and launch a new outpatient palliative care program at UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

UConn Law Clinic Transforms Lives of Immigrants

The Asylum and Human Rights Clinic helps immigrants along the path to a new life and provides law students with practical, hands-on experience.

Students Deliver Free Dental Care at Major Statewide Event

Over 50 students participated in this year’s Connecticut Mission of Mercy Free Dental Clinic

Nivedha Natchiappan

Meet a Health Care Hero and UConn Medical Student

The Hartford Business Journal honors fourth-year UConn medical student Nivedha Natchiappan of Avon for creating a new social determinants of health screening for newly diagnosed gynecologic cancer patients.

School of Pharmacy Startup Develops Promising Kidney-Targeting Drug Delivery System

Zeal Therapeutics, a startup emerging from the School of Pharmacy, has developed a promising drug delivery system to target the kidneys.

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UConn Magazine: True Grit

Richard Juknavorian ’95 (CLAS) shares the top 10 episodes of his podcast, “Meeting You Where You’re At”

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Neag School Researcher Receives Funding to Develop New School District Integration Plans

Alexandra Freidus to lead team supported by the Spencer Foundation and the American Institutes for Research

Meet the Researcher: Elias Uddin, CAHNR

Elias Uddin's research focuses on making ruminant agriculture more sustainable

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Mandating an Elective? The Implementation of Black and Latino Studies Courses in Connecticut High Schools

Researchers with the Neag School’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation prepared the following research brief regarding Connecticut mandating an elective course on Black and Latino studies

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UConn Health’s Gillian Kuszewski Named ‘Pharmacist of the Year’

Presented by the Connecticut Society of Health-System Pharmacists