Coronavirus
6 Nightingales Reflect Commitment of Entire UConn Health Nursing Staff
Paying tribute to nurses who served during a year of unprecedented challenge
May 5, 2021 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
UConn Health Researchers Receive a $3.1 Million Dollar Grant to Study Pandemic-Related Stress in Families with Infants
Damion Grasso and Margaret Briggs-Gowan developed a tool to measure pandemic-related stress. They are now applying it in a study focused on families who gave birth and are now raising infants during the pandemic
UConn Law Students Help Keep Tabs on COVID-19 Litigation
Getting an in-depth understanding of civil litigation as it unfolds in real time
April 20, 2021 | Camille Chill
Virtual Conference Brings Together Global Experts to Tackle COVID-19 “Infodemic”
Health behavior experts come together to put forth an agenda that uses social media to solve public health problems
April 14, 2021 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
How Worried Should You Be About Coronavirus Variants?
UConn virologist Paulo Verardi explains his concerns with new variants of the virus that are spreading rapidly
April 9, 2021 | Paulo Verardi, Associate Professor of Virology and Vaccinology
Power of a Phone Call: Medical Students Changing COVID-19 Patients’ Lives
Students have made more than 2,500 phone calls to COVID-19 patients and isolated seniors since the start of the pandemic
April 7, 2021 | Lauren Woods
Study Seeks to Learn Why COVID-19 Is So Deadly for the Old
Research that will provide valuable insights about how vaccines affect immune systems
March 30, 2021 | Kim Krieger
Using Emerging Science to Tackle Emerging Disease
A new course in bioinformatics teaches students with real-world data for training in an emerging scientific discipline
March 17, 2021 | Kim Colavito Markesich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Traffic is Down on American Highways During the Pandemic – But Vehicle Deaths Are Up
During the stay-at-home period, the incidence rate of fatal single-vehicle crashes increased 4.1 times
March 16, 2021 | Eric Jackson, Director of the Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center and Marisa Auguste, Behavioral Research Assistant at the Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center
Early COVID Patient at UConn Health Gets Life Back a Year Later
'One day I was a healthy 47-year-old, then it all happened so suddenly.'
March 11, 2021 | Jennifer Walker