Community Impact
New UConn Microgrid to Provide Power in Storm-related Outages
The University has received state funding to create an independent microgrid energy system at the Depot Campus.
Learning About a Healthy Home
UConn extension educators have developed an illustrated children's book as part of the Healthy Environments for Children initiative.
Fostering College Dreams for Kids in Foster Care
UConn's new First Star Academy is a residential summer program for high school students in foster care.
Neag Students Take a Refreshing and Eye-Opening Break to Jamaica
This past spring break the UConn Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life took their first alternative spring break to help out two different schools in Jamaica. Alexandria Cipolla and Shelby Flynn were among two of the ten UConn students involved in the trip, and both are Neag School of Education students. Flynn, a special education […]
NFL Players Association Helps UConn’s Korey Stringer Institute Beat the Heat
With warm weather settling in, most of us start thinking of beaches and cookouts, but the arrival of summer has more serious implications for the National Football League Players Association. Mindful of the danger of heat for its members, the NFLPA sponsored a fundraising dinner for the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, […]
REALL Makes Real Learning Possible For ELLs
It didn’t take long for New Britain fifth-grade teacher Kim Rosa Gionfriddo to realize the strategies she learned as a Neag School of Education REALL fellow to better teach students with limited English proficiency could benefit native English-speaking students, too. “It’s a simple thing, but just by being more explicit and taking time to define […]
Celebrating a Threatened Bird
UConn professor and State Ornithologist Margaret Rubega teaches local residents about chimney swifts.
Donation Takes Okafor’s Legacy Beyond UConn Sports Record Books
Former UConn basketball player Emeka Okafor has made a second donation to the Husky Sport program, which mentors Hartford schoolchildren.
UConn Students Bring the Magic of Science to Middle Schools
A group of graduate and undergraduate students spent three weeks giving hands-on polymer chemistry demonstrations at 12 Connecticut schools.
Hartford Students ‘Over the Moon’ After NASA Race
Six high school students competed in NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race, with the help of UConn graduate STEM fellows.