Community Impact
Doctors Academy at UConn Health Making Dreams Come True
Graduates of the Health Career Opportunity Programs were celebrated at its annual closing ceremony. Mark Manson, a senior at Bloomfield High School, has dreamed of becoming a doctor since he was four years old and is now UConn bound to earn both his undergraduate and medical degrees.
UConn Student Working to ‘Amplify’ Educational Opportunities in Kenya
'One of the key things that I've really learned is to love the problem. Be in love with a problem. Because that's the only way you can understand the solution'
E-Corps: Building Skills and Bolstering Environmental Efforts Across Connecticut
A report shows the Environmental Corps (E-Corps) program has a lasting and transformative impact on students
UConn Students Help Thousands by Surveying Patients for Social Determinants of Health in Waiting Rooms
The UConn Health Leaders Program, co-founded by Dr. Henry Siccardi '23 MD/MPH, who is remaining at UConn Health for internal medicine residency training, has been a success in just three years
Capital Area Health Consortium Honors UConn Health Nurse, Fellow, Resident
Community Service Awards for Drs. Jasmin Hundal and Joselyn Miller; scholarship for Elizabeth Haskell
UConn, Yale Push Connecticut to Quantum Reality
The state’s two premiere research universities are answering NSF’s call to catalyze regional economic and societal well-being through technological innovation.
UConn Health’s 52nd Commencement Celebrates Hundreds of New Doctors
UConn Health Graduates are Ready to Enter the Health Care Workforce for Connecticut and the Nation
UConn Health Screens Firefighters for Skin Cancer
Dermatologists, residents, students offer free screenings for UConn and community firefighters, whose occupational exposures increase their risk of melanoma and other cancers
UConn Zwick Center Survey Outlines Challenges for Local Food Procurement in Connecticut Schools
Despite a willingness to request Connecticut products from vendors, the report found that very few schools are purchasing a majority of local food from Connecticut
Risks and Rewards: New Initiative Connects UConn Actuarial Science Students with Local Small Businesses
'You're running a business now, and you're running it every day, and you see the profits every day, but you don't always plan for the big things that might happen'