Awards & Scholarships
3 UConn Health Nurses Recognized for Outstanding Care
Fourth presentation of the Dr. Richard Simon Excellence in Clinical Neurosciences Award
March 2, 2023 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
UConn Research Seeds 17 Projects through New CRISP Funding Initiative
The funding program, which encourages interdisciplinary research among clinical faculty at UConn and UConn Health, is awarding a total of $729,000
February 21, 2023 | Matt Engelhardt
UConn Health’s Dr. Gualberto Ruaño Appointed Chair of CASE’s Broadening Participation, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
For three decades Dr. Gualberto Ruaño has been an innovator in biotechnology and a pioneer in personalized medicine.
February 8, 2023 | Lauren Woods
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Meets with St. Lucia Prime Minister to Review Progress of UConn-St. Lucia Cooperation Agreement
This January UConn's Dr. Cato T. Laurencin visited St. Lucia where he bestowed the first struck medal Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award to St. Lucia's Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre in honorary recognition of his support of regenerative engineering in the country.
January 23, 2023 | Jini Davis, Connecticut Convergence Institute
Dr. Cato Laurencin Receives Shu Chien Achievement Award
Most prestigious honor bestowed by the Biomedical Engineering Society's BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Group
January 6, 2023 | Jini Davis, Connecticut Convergence Institute
UConn Center on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded by the American Federation for Aging Research
Dr. Binsheng Wang is just one of nine postdoctoral fellows to be selected nationally for this prestigious grant award.
December 20, 2022 | Lauren Woods
Sarah Marze ’23 Named UConn’s Sixth Marshall Scholar
Marze is just one of 40 students nationally to earn this prestigious honor this year, and the only one from a public university in New England
December 12, 2022 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Nidhi Nair ’23 Named UConn’s First Schwarzman Scholar
Chosen from over 3,000 applicants, the economics major will join 150 fellow scholars in Beijing
December 7, 2022 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
UConn Radiology Chair Dr. Leo Wolansky Wins Best Abstract Award at the Radiologic Society of North America Annual Meeting
Dr. Leo Wolansky is the 2022 Kuo York Chynn Foundation Award recipient for the best abstract in neuroradiology research at RSNA 2022, one of the largest medical meetings in the world.
December 1, 2022 | Lauren Woods
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award Launched by the AIChE
A new award has been established in honor of UConn's Dr. Cato T. Laurencin. The Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award will recognize an individual's leadership in convergence research in regenerative engineering — a field pioneered by Laurencin
November 30, 2022 | Jini Davis, Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering