Awards & Scholarships

UConn Research, Provost’s Office Launch Student-Centric Sustainability Initiative

Offices announce PRISMATIC: The President’s Research Investment in Sustainability Measures, Actions, Technologies, Initiatives, and Communities

Chapal Bhavsar '26 poses for a photo next to Swan Lake

Finance Major Was Part of Fulbright U.K. Summer Institute

Chapal Bhavsar was selected to be part of an interdisciplinary program emphasizing climate change, sustainability, and civic responsibility for the future of the planet

aerial photo of Kellogg Dairy Center

UConn’s Kellogg Dairy Center Named New England Green Pastures Winner

This award recognizes an outstanding dairy farm for overall farm management and operation, and considers a farm's contributions to the state and regional agricultural community

Portrait of Anagha Payyamball

Doctoral Student Named to First Class of Quad Fellows

The Quad program is highly competitive with only 100 students selected for the initial class among 3,600 initial applicants

UConn’s Justin Cotney, Ph.D. to be Honored for Research Excellence by Society for Craniofacial Genetics & Developmental Biology

Cotney will be honored on October 10 at the Society’s 46th annual meeting for his research enhancing the understanding of craniofacial development and disease.

2023 Malka Penn Award Recognizes Beneath the Wide Silk Sky and The Tower of Life

Children’s literature selections honored for outstanding work addressing human rights issues and themes

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin to Receive the Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success from the American Chemical Society

Laurencin serves UConn as University Professor, the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, materials science and engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The Wilbur Cross Building on a sunny day.

UConn Junior Takes Part In Prestigious Summer Program

Mariam Vargas spent six weeks in Washington, D.C., learning from diplomats, foreign service officers, and other leading foreign affairs professionals.

Mark R. Terasaki, Ph.D

Mark Terasaki, Ph.D. of UConn Elected a Fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology

In early December Terasaki will be recognized in Boston as a new ASCB fellow at Cell Bio 2023, the joint meeting of ASCB and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Aerial (drone) view of the large letter UConn Sign on Oct. 15, 2019.

UConn Graduate Earns Prestigious Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship

Brennan’s long-term goal is to develop a holistic primary health clinic that offers evidence-based care inclusive of a patient’s body, mind, circumstances, culture, spirituality and environment