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UConn’s, State’s Sustainability Efforts Bolstered as Two New Electric Buses Join Storrs Fleet
'UConn has operated buses of various kinds at Storrs for about 100 years, but this will be the first time they’re run without fossil fuels'
August 11, 2025 | Stephanie Reitz
Podcast: Skin Cancer Risk — Spray It Away?
Dr. Jenna Kelsey, UConn Health dermatologist, discusses sunscreen concerns
August 11, 2025 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Meet UConn Pepper Center’s 2025 REC Pepper Scholars
4 early-career faculty awarded under center’s Research Education Component to help advance aging research and the future of older adult care
August 11, 2025 | Lauren Woods
Second Human Rights Summit comes to UConn with Focus on Sports, Featuring Iconic Athletes from 1968 Summer Olympics
Tommie Smith and John Carlos will visit UConn Storrs for the opening keynote conversation of a three-day summit examining the global and domestic issues at play in the intersection of human rights and sports
August 11, 2025 | Jaclyn Severance
CAPS Research Scholar Develops ‘Mock Mouth’ for Dental Research
The 3D-printed device, created by biomedical engineering major Jon Balyeat ’27, can show how microbial growth responds to oral treatments and implants without clinical trials
August 8, 2025 | Olivia Drake
Recommendations for Improving Black Women HIV Care and Racial Equity
UConn Health Disparities Institute share their insights about the national Black Women First Initiative and the path forward to improved care for Black women with HIV.
August 7, 2025 | Lauren Woods
Life with Lori June: Professor Turns Kitchen into Classroom to Show Us How She Does It
'I guess my life is a lot about food. It’s my creative outlet. Food is the way that I love people. Life with Lori June is just a new extension of that'
August 7, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
CAPS Summer Program Concludes With Poster Exhibition
During the CAPS Research Summer program, students dedicate efforts to their research projects and leverage skills to be applicants for research-focused graduate degrees
August 7, 2025 | Combined Reports
Sweet Disguise: Body Hides RNA With Sugar
Now that scientists understand the role of RNA glycosylation in deflecting immune system attention, they can check on whether that strategy is somehow going awry
August 6, 2025 | Kim Krieger
UConn’s Dr. Marja Hurley is President-Elect of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Hurley is the fourth faculty member from UConn to be selected to lead the ASBMR.
August 6, 2025 | Lauren Woods