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UConn Expert Member of Global Commission Calling on World to Improve Sickle Cell Disease Care

Global mortality from sickle cell disease may be nearly 11 times higher than recorded, says new Commission of world experts published in The Lancet Haematology journal.

Message to the University Community

President Maric shares a summer update

Ted Rathjen, senior shellfish warden for Groton, steers the boat as Kaitlyn Campbell, post doctoral student in the Brandt Lab at UConn, and Anika Agrawal, doctoral student in the lab, prepare to collect oysters and mussels to test for PFAS in shellfish tissue in an earlier project led by Christopher Perkins, who was chosen for one of the CECs project research awards.

Connecticut Sea Grant Project to Focus on Possible Contaminants in Coastal Waterways

The UConn researcher-led effort is part of a multistate effort to analyze pollutants in urban coastal areas along the East Coast

Beauty shot of UConn Health's University Tower

Message Regarding UConn Health Leadership Structure

President Maric announces a national search for UConn Health CEO in the coming weeks

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UConn Psychology Professor Develops Tool to Measure Religious Coping During Trauma

'With this scale in hand, many research questions can be posed to advance our understanding of theodical struggling and how people engage in struggling'

Meat at the butcher shop

Using New Tech to Identify the Cause of an Old Phenomenon in Meat Tenderness

Researchers from UConn's Department of Animal Science used machine learning algorithms to explain how an enzyme responsible for meat tenderness is modified on the molecular level

Dr. Albertsen holding glass bowl in front of UConn Health sign

Patient Group Honors Dr. Peter Albertsen as Pioneer in Prostate Cancer Management

Chief and program director of UConn Health’s Division of Urology was an early advocate of active surveillance, originally an unpopular alternative to surgery and radiation in low-grade cancers

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin of the University of Connecticut and UConn Health.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Elected to the Council of the National Academy of Medicine

This July Dr. Laurencin begins his 3-year term for the Academy’s governing and oversight body.

A patient working within UConn's Aphasia Rehab Lab

UConn Aphasia Support Group Reaches Out to Caregivers and Beyond

'The only people who can really understand are the people who are going through it'

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Ask UConn Extension: Tips for Stretching Your Food Dollars

UConn Extension can help consumers find ways to stretch their food dollars and still eat healthy