Schools & Colleges
Alumni couple cope with the challenges of cystic fibrosis
For Rebecca Martello Poole, a 2000 graduate of the Diagnostic Genetic Sciences Program in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, genetic diseases are not just a professional concern. Rebecca was diagnosed at the age of six months with cystic fibrosis (CF) and has suffered from the debilitating effects throughout her life. Rebecca met her husband […]
Thinking like an Entrepreneur to Advance Science
Sandra Weller has adapted her decades of research on herpes simplex to address the related cytomegalovirus, which has even more serious effects. She hopes her work will lead to a treatment option with commercial potential.
America’s Ongoing Struggle for Equal Rights
'Our contradictions are built into our political DNA,' says UConn historian Richard D. Brown.
Hospital CEO Departs for New Challenge
After seven plus years of leadership and a long record of accomplishments, Anne Diamond announced this week she will be stepping down in August as CEO of UConn John Dempsey Hospital to pursue a new career challenge.
UConn Dental Grants Show Collaborative Nature
UConn School of Dental Medicine faculty members work collaboratively to create a diverse research portfolio that goes well beyond teeth.
UConn Health Clinical Faculty Continues to Expand
Meet six more clinical providers who joined UConn Health in the last several months.
Student Daniel Hanley Gives TEDx Talk on Market Consolidation
To understand the marketplace, it helps to understand biodiversity, according to UConn Law student Daniel Hanley ‘19. A marketplace is an ecosystem,” Hanley said in a TEDxUConn talk, “and many of us understand how an ecosystem benefits by having large biodiversity of species in order for us to thrive. I believe the same can be […]
Asylum Clinic Honored for Work With Detained Asylum-Seekers
The Asylum and Human Rights Clinic at UConn School of Law has won the 2017 Light of Liberty Award from the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center for its work with immigrants seeking asylum. For the past two years, the clinic has organized the Immigration Detention Service Project, sending a team of law students, social work students, […]
Law Students Teach High School Students Constitutional Law
Hartford high school students came to UConn School of Law on April 27, 2017, to present their final arguments in a moot court case about a cell phone search and a student’s rap song. Arguments in the hypothetical case, involving the Fourth and First Amendments, were the culmination of a program offered through the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional […]
Graduates Lauded at 2017 UConn Law Commencement
Author and journalist Emily Bazelon delivered the keynote address to a celebratory crowd of graduates and their families on May 21, 2017, at the 94th commencement at UConn School of Law. “Get to know people whose lives have been ensnared by crime, the victims and the perpetrators. Often they’re not as different from each other […]