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group portrait of 12 in conference room with menstrual products on table in front of "Championing Menstrual Equity" sign

Taking on Period Poverty

UConn public health, medical, dental students address menstrual inequity in Hartford

UConn senior Noah Sneed with Dr. Cato T. Laurencin.

2025 Dr. Cato T. Laurencin ScHOLA²RS House Award Recipients

Professor Sir Dr. Cato T. Laurencin awarded three outstanding students the ScHOLA2RS House/ Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Award at the graduate convention banquet.

Dr Cato T Laurencin

2025 Dickson Prize in Medicine Goes to Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn

Sir Cato T. Laurencin, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut, is the recipient of the 2025 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh’s highest honor.

Imitola Lab image shows the inside of a 3D brain organoid formation's layers of stem cells. Blue is nuclear staining, red is SOX2, a stem cell marker, and green is a cortical neuron progenitor marker (CITP2).

First Stem Cell Medicine Course for Clinicians Available for Free

UConn School of Medicine Expertise and Leadership Contributes to International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and Harvard Medical School’s First Global Continuing Education Course for Clinicians and Medical Students.

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Pharmacy Professor Honored by National Academy of Medicine

Raman Bahal has been named an Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar, just one of ten nationally to earn that designation

Dr. Cato Laurencin and Dr. Samuel Laurencin

Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit: Dr. Cato Laurencin and Dr. Samuel Laurencin

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin and his nephew Dr. Samuel J. Laurencin participated in the Waterbury, Connecticut event.

Sad teen boy sitting on floor in high school corridor

Regular Screening for Depression May Benefit High Schoolers

Symptoms of depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts have steadily increased among high school students in the U.S. over the past decade and a half

Dr. Denis Lafreniere

UConn’s Dr. Denis Lafreniere Inducted into the Honor Society for Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery

Lafreniere has been prestigiously selected to be a fellow of the Triological Society.

Dr. Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger is a geriatrician at UConn Health and educator at UConn School of Medicine (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health photo).

UConn’s Dr. Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger Appointed to Two National Education Committees

Olsen Jaeger of the UConn Center on Aging will serve on the Education Committees of both the ACP and PALTmed

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Rudd Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary at UConn

The Center investigates strategies to address food insecurity, poor nutrition, and weight bias through research and policy