Community Impact

Watercolor. (iStock Image)

‘Tasty Waste Lunch’ Offers Food for Thought

This week, UConn Dining Services will serve a meal produced entirely from 'leftovers' for the first time.

A pharmacist sits with a patient in the consultation area and discusses her prescription. (iStock Photo)

New Website Connects Mental Health Patients and Pharmacists

A UConn faculty member led the recent effort to launch a website with a searchable directory of more than 850 mental health pharmacies.

Sickle cell patient Evelyn Richard at the New England Sickle Cell Institute at UConn Health. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

UConn Health Helping Adults With Sickle Cell Live Longer

Care providers at the New England Sickle Cell Institute help patients live longer, healthier, less painful lives.

Members of the UConn Health Special Operations Unit traveled to New York City in a specially equipped vehicle and were assigned to provide medical support for the New York Urban Search and Rescue Team. They are from left to right: William Perkins, Carmine Centrella, John Kowalski, Robert Fuller, M.D., Greg Priest, Ben Sonstrom, and, kneeling, Daryl Byrne. Fuller is chief of emergency medicine for the Health Center and medical director of the group. The others are all paramedics with the special tactical training.

9/11 Memories Still Fresh for UConn Health Responders

Members of the UConn Health Fire and Emergency Departments recall their harrowing experiences at Ground Zero.

Child looking at chips in a bag. (iStock Photo)

Look-alike ‘Smart Snacks’ Confuse Students, Parents

A UConn researcher says selling look-alike Smart Snacks in schools is a tool for marketing junk food brands to children.

Michael Poulin, 70, of West Hartford.

Vascular Surgeon Helps Patient Beat Survival Odds

A 70-year-old survived an abdominal aortic aneurysm, thanks to the quick work of his surgeon and UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

Clothing displayed to show the progressive change from pre-contact to current day Connecticut (in between are colonial and industrial). "Human’s Nature: Looking Closer at the Relationships between People and the Environment" exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.

Natural History Museum to Relocate, Expand Public Outreach

With its relocation, the museum will boost its outreach to the community and expand its work with partners at the University.

Local middle school teachers Celeste Estevez and William Eller work on a solving a research problem.

Program Gives Teachers Lab Time

STEM teachers from secondary schools and community colleges worked on research projects at UConn this summer, an experience that they will take back to their classes.

Symone James '16 (ED), a student teacher at W.B. Sweeney School in WIllimantic helps students with reading on April 26, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

‘Country Prepped for Conversation on Education’

The former dean of the Neag School discusses a new national report calling for greater support for teachers in order to improve learning for all students.

A view of the north and south lanes of the Gold Star Bridge on April 16, 2009. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Keeping Connecticut’s Bridges Strong

The state's bridges will benefit from a new repair method developed at UConn using ultra-high performance concrete.