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‘The Ability to Give and Receive Love’: Researchers Look at Effects of Acceptance, Rejection

'There’s no single experience in human life that's more important than the experience of being cared about by the people who are most important to you'

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UConn Students Combat Opioid Crisis in CT through Adopt a Health District Program

Through the program, UConn students help Connecticut communities tackle the opioid crisis, from Narcan training to safe medication disposal techniques

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UConn Entrepreneur Aims to Revolutionize Men’s Health Care

Reza Amin’s Bastion Health creates virtual, confidential, progressive approach to medical screening to help save lives

Spring Nature Editor of Distinction Award

UConn’s Sir Cato T. Laurencin Recognized as Springer Nature Editor of Distinction

Sir Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., K.C.S.L, has received a 2025 Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award. The award is given to exceptional editors who have demonstrated commitment to upholding scientific accuracy and advancing discovery.

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Beautiful Moments: SFA Alum Brings Smiles to Bridal Couples with Live Event Painting

When Erin Leigh Boughamer '94 (SFA) left UConn three decades ago with a degree in graphic design from the School of Fine Arts, event painting hadn’t yet become part of bridal vocabulary. To ask her back then if she foresaw herself with a wardrobe of dressy pantsuits, each with at least a little dollop of acrylic paint on them, she’d have said no way

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Podcast: Angst Over Additives in Our Food

Dr. Rebecca Andrews, UConn Health primary care physician, offers perspective on food dyes and other ingredients that aren’t naturally occurring

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Nutritional Science Graduate Student Receives Prestigious Fellowship

Liu’s research focuses on how fermentation can transform seaweed into a probiotic yogurt that supports gut health as a nutrient-rich sustainable food source

A mural depicting the slave Fortune, commemorated in November 2024

OLLI Program: Remembering Our Past Helps Others Navigate the Future

A Juneteenth event at UConn Waterbury, hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, celebrated diversity and historical reflection

Bruce T. Liang, MD is embarking on this third five-year term as dean of UConn's medical school (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo).

Dr. Bruce T. Liang Reappointed Dean of UConn School of Medicine

Dr. Liang begins his third term as dean of UConn’s medical school this July. He has served as dean since 2015

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Science in Seconds: Eating Away at Disease

UConn Health researchers are studying how phagocytes feel, taste, digest and respond to eating and clearing away debris or foreign particles inside the body