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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'
July 1, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
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
July 1, 2025 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
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
June 30, 2025 | Claire Hall
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.
June 30, 2025 | Jon D'Arpino
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
June 30, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
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
June 27, 2025 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
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
June 27, 2025 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
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
June 27, 2025 | Ira Morrison
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
June 26, 2025 | Lauren Woods
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
June 26, 2025 | Carolyn Pennington