Schools & Colleges

Neag School Receives $300K Award to Support Mentor Education

Through a generous $300,000 award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, high school seniors enrolled in the foundation’s Young Scholars Program will be able to pursue areas of interest and advanced learning for a three-week residential program housed on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus in the summer of 2018.

A teacher goes over a lesson with a student from New Orleans in English class, at a school in Pflugerville, Texas. (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc./Corbis via Getty Images)

Hurricane Aftermath: Lessons from Katrina that are Relevant Now

Teachers will be part of the healing process for children relocating after Hurricanes Maria and Harvey, says UConn's Edith Barrett.

25th Annual PILG Auction Raises Money and Spirits

High-spirited bidding contests erupted over a go-cart outing with Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola, UConn women’s basketball tickets and a week of parking in Dean Timothy Fisher’s space, along with a host of other items at the 25th annual Public Interest Law Group Auction. The live and silent auction on Nov. 10, 2017, packed the Reading […]

A UConn business professor has developed a strategy to optimize the decision-making process for NFL Survivor Pools that also has applications for endeavors such as airport screening and determining kidney transplant recipients. (Shutterstock Image)

A Winning NFL Football Pool Strategy

A UConn business professor developed a strategy to optimize the decision-making process for NFL Survivor Pools.

UConn School of Business Dean's Report 2017

School of Business Dean’s Report 2017

As we approach the final weeks of 2017, the School of Business is growing, thriving and delivering its best to our students, wherever they may be.

Grandfather and grandson taking a nap together on the couch. (Getty Images)

Thanksgiving Turkey Makes You Sleepy? Gobbledygook.

While you may feel sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner, that's not because of the turkey, says UConn neurobiologist John Redden.

Jessica Ortegon, a senior majoring in fine arts, focuses on her work in Professor Brad Guarino's Basic Painting class. (Garrett Spahn/UConn Photo)

The Art of Concentration

Students paint from their mind's eye in a basic painting class.

UConn Dental Student Serves, Studies in Guatemala

Emily Keller's altruistic and academic missions come together in a poor Central American village.

Student-athlete Tosin Adeniyi ’18 (BUS), Women’s Volleyball, talks with her advisor, Ingrid Hohmann. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Student-Athlete Strong: Tosin Adeniyi

'I am one of the luckiest girls to have received such an amazing education and college experience through volleyball.'

A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify radical, violent content. (Shutterstock Photo)

New Software Can Pinpoint Hate Groups’ Radicalization Sites

A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify terrorist content.