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Puppets Nico, CJ, and Mena.

Feel Your Best Self Collaborative Puppetry Project Wins Telly Awards

The free educational toolkit that helps children cope with big emotions has been recognized in four categories.

Blossom in the frost

Helping Local Farms Face Devastating Late-Season Frost

UConn programs aim to help assess the damage and support Connecticut farms after the impact of a late-season cold snap

The oak leaf seal of the University of Connecticut.

Message from President Maric on the State Budget

President Maric addresses the state budget and its impact on UConn and UConn Health over the next two years

Astrin Krane, a Glastonbury High School student and second-year attendee of the Queer Science Conference, holds a heart-shaped alginate she made during a science demonstration and presentation about hydrogel crosslinking and application in the Chemistry Building during the conference on June 4, 2023.

Queer Science Conference Connects LGBTQIA+ Youth with Role Models in Various STEM Fields

High school students from across the state gather for second iteration of Queer Science Conference

Mosquito

UConn Researchers Identify Genetic Makeup of New Strains of West Nile

This study shows the variety of strains in circulation and what mosquitoes may be carrying as we head into summer

Dr. Lauren Geaney examining patient's foot

UConn Health Leads Patient on Innovative Path to Restoring Pain-Free Mobility

UConn Health’s Dr. Lauren Geaney finds a solution for what was unsolvable, with a 3D-printed custom ankle replacement. Now her patient is walking again without pain.

runner with medal holds finish line above her head

UConn Health Half Marathon Draws 1,600+

See photos from the UConn Health Half Marathon, 10K & 5K, attended by more than 1,600 June 3 in Simsbury

Two puppet characters discuss a paper sack filled with bananas in front of a colorful painted kitchen background in this video still from Feel Your Best Self's "Be a Kind Helper."

Pioneering Puppet Project ‘Feel Your Best Self’ Coming to More Screens Near You

The celebrated program, which uses puppets to help kids and their caregivers explore emotion-coping strategies with a free toolkit, has extended a license to New York's THIRTEEN public broadcasting channel

Three sections of optic nerve that were injured by crushing (the white diamond on the far left of each nerve marks the crush point.) The lower two nerves each express genes (Dynlt1a or Lars2) newly identified by the Trakhtenberg lab as promoting nerve axon regeneration. The axons carry the bright green dye. The insets to the right show how much more axon regrowth is occurring in the nerves that express the regeneration genes, and how no regrowth happens in the normal control (top).

New Nerve Insights Could Someday Help Heal Certain Types of Blindness and Paralysis

New research answers some of the big questions of how our nervous systems develop

UConn Health Faculty and Students at the Inaugural Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Research Day

The University of Connecticut celebrated its first cross-campus TRHT Research Day.