Schools & Colleges

Denisse Tafur, Huakang Huang and Dinesh Babu Uthaya Kumar are UConn Graduate School students studying biomedical science who completed advanced training in translational research at the NIH's Clinical Center this summer.

Graduate School Applications and Rankings on the Rise

Applications to graduate programs at UConn are on the upswing, while several of the programs rose in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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U.S. News & World Report Ranks Neag School Among Top 20 U.S. Publics

U.S. News & World Report released its 2018 national rankings of graduate schools of education today, with the Neag School of Education ranking No. 27 in the nation. Among public graduate schools of education, the Neag School remains in the top 20 nationally, at No. 17. This is the second consecutive year in which the U.S. News annual rankings placed the Neag School among the nation’s top 20 public graduate schools of education.

The photo shows a replica of Thoreau’s best-known boat, Musketaquid, named for the Algonquian word for 'grassy plain,' used to describe the area that became the town of Concord. (Photo by Juliet Wheeler)

Thoreau: Out of the Woods and Onto the River

UConn professor Robert Thorson says Henry David Thoreau, best known for writing about life in the woods, was also a boatman and scientific expert.

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In Memoriam: Ralph Porter Collins, Emeritus Professor of Biology

Collins retired from UConn in 1989 as a full professor and head of the botony section.

With UConn Health poised to open a new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in April, the head of the neurology department discusses this common seizure condition. These MRI scans show a brain tumor and associated swelling that triggered a patient’s seizures. (UConn Health Image)

I’ve Heard of it, But What Exactly is Epilepsy?

With UConn Health poised to open a new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in April, the head of the neurology department discusses this common seizure condition.

A UConn SFA Grad explains his journey from these very walls to the big bad world.

Michael Siporin Levine, 2011 UConn BFA, sat down in Storrs Center’s Barnes & Noble in awe of how much has changed on campus in a few short years. After earning his BFA in printmaking at UConn, he continued on to graduate school at the University of Georgia and earned his MFA in 2014. After a […]

Mozart’s Comedic Opera ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ to Scandalize von der Mehden on March 24 and 26

UConn Opera Theater presents Mozart’s comic opera Le Nozze di Figaro on Friday, March 24 at 7:30 and Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 at the von der Mehden Recital Hall. Based on Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’ controversial 1784 play and with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart tells the story of a countess and her servants […]

Nature-Inspired Art Exhibits at UConn Health

The art exhibits of Pamela Bramble and Suzan Scott will be shown at the Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health until June 8, 2017.

Lindsey Gilson '17 (BUS, ENG), a senior studying engineering management for manufacturing, was named Intern of the Year by the American Society of Engineering Education. Gilson, a native of Trumbull, Conn., interned last year for six months with Unilever in Minneapolis. Gilson will graduate this May. (Gerry McCarthy/UConn Foundation Photo)

Student’s Dual Expertise Saved Company More than $1 Million

Management and Engineering for Manufacturing major Lindsey Gilson received accolades from the American Society for Engineering Education for her outstanding work as an intern with Unilever.

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Consumers on the Move: Mobile Geo-Targeting

With the typical American consumer spending three hours a day on a smartphone, savvy companies are quickly trying to capitalize on new geo-targeting technology that allows them to market their businesses electronically.