Community Impact

Athletic Trainers learning about player safety

From Sideline to Lifeline: Advancing Emergency Skills in Athletic Training Education

UConn’s Institute for Sports Medicine (ISM) recently hosted a workshop for athletic trainers from across Connecticut to address updated guidance on Emergency Action Plans

Four incoming Class of 2029 UConn medical students celebrating their exciting preview to UConn Health thanks to their summer research experience including Bria Slater (center-front row), and (back row) Sophia Fernandes, Christopher Morales, and Dany Skaf with some of their dedicated UConn Health faculty mentors OB/GYN Dr. Dyanne Tappin (left front) and Nueroscientist Alice Burghard (front right). (John Atashian Photo/ UConn Health - July 17, 2025).

Incoming UConn Medical Students Get Hands-On Summer Research Experience

For the first time the Health Career Opportunities Program of UConn Health offered matriculating UConn medical students summer research opportunities.

White pharmaceutical pills spilling from prescription bottle over American map. (Stuart Richie/iStock/Getty Images)

Study Highlights Higher Rates, Risk Factors for Non-Fatal Overdoses

A new opioid overdose study has identified several key risk factors associated with non-fatal overdoses drawing from a sample of people who use opioids in New Haven

CT State Rep. Murray Riley meeting with students and members of the new Galen V. Henderson, MD Stimulate Equity, Education, and Diversity (SEED) Program. (NEDS Photo Credit)

UConn Medical Students Learning to Strike Out Organ Donation Inequities

New England Donor Services Launches New Medical Student Summer Immersion Program to Advance the Future of Organ Donation and Transplant Equity.

Conference attendees listen to presenters during Teaching and Learning with Technology conference.

AI in K-12 Education: Partners in Progress, Not Replacements

As artificial intelligence continues to transform industries worldwide, educators and researchers with the Neag School of Education are exploring how it may reshape teaching and learning

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin

Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn Honored by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Sir Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., K.C.S.L, was the designated honored guest at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) President's Circle Reception in Washington, DC.

Female educator works with young students on the floor in a classroom.

The Costs and Benefits of Year-Round Schooling

Researchers with the Neag School’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation prepared the following research brief regarding year-round schooling

group portrait of four women, two men, indoors

UConn Health Resident Honored for Local, Global Service

Dr. Priscilla Mapelli earns community service award from residency program consortium

CT AHEC Urban Service Track/AHEC (UST/AHEC) scholar alums from UConn's medical and dental school attending the national AHEC conference (CT AHEC Photo).

National Impact for CT AHEC and its Urban Service Track/AHEC Scholars from UConn Health

UST/AHEC Scholars alumni from UConn's dental and medical schools present at the National AHEC Organization Conference.

Cassandra Keola is an Administrative Program Coordinator in the UConn School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health photo).

Leading with Resilience Personally and Professionally

Meet Resilient Administrative Program Coordinator Cassandra Keola of UConn School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine