Health & Well-Being

A family on a bridge trail looking out into nature.

Ask UConn Extension: Tips to Stop Bugging Out on the Trails

Enjoying Connecticut's trails doesn't have to include a bite from ticks, mosquitoes, or stinging insects

A group of college students poses for a photo in a classroom while wearing sock puppets on their hands.

Students From Public Health House Learning Community Feel Their Best Self

Interdisciplinary collaboration between UConn’s Collaboratory on School and Child Health, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, and the Public Health House Learning Community allows students to see the possibilities of the future

Students, faculty, and alumni from health majors across the university celebrated World Health Day on Fairfield Way with informational and interactive events (Jason Sheldon/UConn Photo)

UConn Holds First-Ever World Health Day Fair

What started out as a way to highlight one major turned into a university-wide event helping students explore careers, studies, and experiences in health care

Joan Munroe portrait at lobby front desk

‘I Still Have Something to Offer This World’

UConn Health celebrates its volunteers

Sunrise on Horsebarn Hill.

Language and Landscape: Building Communication Skills in Natural Environments

Horsebarn Hill is among the learning environments helping a UConn researcher conduct potentially life-changing research for minimally verbal autistic young adults

Dr. Katherine Coyner examines a patient's right leg

Keeping Women Healthy and Active

Introducing the Women’s Center for Motion and Performance at UConn Health

Osman Dar speaks to audience at One Health conference

CAHNR One Health Initiatives Addressing Human, Animal, and Environmental Issues

From a unique, university-wide conference to new curricula and innovative research, CAHNR is leading efforts in One Health approaches at UConn

Dental laboratory technician Donna Morin works on a computer-aided manufacturing process for a denture.

Science in Seconds: Digital Dentures

'This new technology has completely transformed the way we practice dentistry'

Entryway sign lit up green for St. Patricks Day and for Sustainability.

A Dual Mission: Growing Green, UConn Professor Earns Income Licensing Plants that Fight Climate Change

'I’m trying to create plants that can replace a lot of the plants that we seem to be losing due to climate change, drought, heat, and insects and disease'

Dr. Rebecca Andrews speaking to another provider in a clinical setting

UConn Health’s Dr. Rebecca Andrews Takes on New National Role

Starts 1-year term as chair-elect of American College of Physicians board of regents