Community Impact
Pharmacists Working to Combat Opioid Overdose
The UConn School of Pharmacy is helping train pharmacists to prescribe naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.
February 15, 2016 | David Bauman
Climate Resiliency Project Wins Federal Competition
UConn researchers helped design the project, which works with the local geography to protect Bridgeport residents and infrastructure.
February 2, 2016 | Kim Krieger
UConn Leading State’s Open Textbook Initiative
The goal is to reduce the cost of textbooks and other course-related educational materials.
February 2, 2016 | Kenneth Best
Hands Off: Reducing Restraints in Connecticut Schools
Two UConn experts discuss how disruptive student behaviors can be reduced by building a positive school climate.
January 28, 2016 | Colin Poitras
UConn Partners with State on Child Welfare Project
The federally funded program seeks to prepare an ethnically and linguistically diverse group of social workers to work with vulnerable children and families.
January 21, 2016 | David Bauman
UConn to Offer Scholarships to Hartford Promise Students
The University's commitment will help make college more affordable for students from Hartford Public Schools.
January 12, 2016 | Stephanie Reitz
New Book Helps Parents Help Kids at Risk of Autism
UConn autism experts suggest ways parents can adapt everyday activities to help children during their critical early years.
January 7, 2016 | Beth Krane, Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention
UConn in Uganda
UConn Health medical student Ryan Duggan was part of a team that traveled to Uganda to help provide medical care and learn about tropical diseases.
December 17, 2015 | Bret Eckhardt
Faculty Weigh In on 2016 Presidential Race
At a recent panel in Hartford, President Herbst and other political scientists predicted the winners of the GOP and Democratic primaries.
December 15, 2015 | Combined Reports
‘The Whisper’ in the Words and Pictures of Pamela Zagarenski
Author and illustrator Pamela Zagarenski '88 (SFA) appears at the Connecticut Children's Book Fair.
November 13, 2015 | Kenneth Best