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Education policy expert Jonathan Plucker is one of the nationally prominent scholars attracted to the University by an ambitious new faculty hiring plan.

Report: ‘Excellence Gap’ Growing Among American Students

A new report by education professor Jonathan Plucker finds that the highest-performing American students are disproportionately white and wealthy.

Violence Against Women

Human Rights Conference Draws High School Students

High school students will be among those at the UNESCO conference today focusing on violence against women as a human rights issue.

Men's basketball head coach Kevin Ollie, left, and women's basketball head coach Geno Auriemma engage in a friendly exchange at First Night in Gampel Pavilion on Oct. 18, 2013. (Steve Slade '89 (SFA) for UConn)

Team Geno vs. Team Kevin

Fans packed Gampel Pavilion Friday for a contest of wits and skills between co-ed teams led by the two basketball head coaches.

Selecting the Scoop

A panel of five seniors selected the official 2014 Senior Scoop flavor during Senior Kickoff on Wednesday.

Dental Care Leads to Free Breast Cancer Screening

The Screening with a Smile program offers mammograms to underserved women seeking dental care at the Health Center.

Political Science major Vanessa Lovelace, 1st place (and People's Choice winner) presenting her topic: Genealogies of Liberty: An Embodied Black Freedom Trail.

The Three-Minute Thesis

Summarizing years of study in just three minutes isn’t easy, but it’s a challenge some UConn graduate students tackled recently.

UConn's head field hockey coach Nancy Stevens is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I history, with a career record of 562 wins. She is shown here with the 2012 team. (Steve Slade '89 (SFA) for UConn)

Nancy Stevens Becomes NCAA Field Hockey’s All-Time Wins Leader

With Friday's win over Louisville, Hall of Fame Coach Stevens now sports a career record of 562 wins.

Gerry Altmann in psychology is one of the major new hires. He’s from the UK – Ph.D. from Edinburgh, currently at York University. He’s one of the famed cognitive science cluster hires, specializing in the cognitive science of language, ‘language processing and aspects of eye movement control’ on July 19, 2013. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Psycholinguistics Expert Gerry Altmann to Join UConn Faculty

An internationally known researcher, Altmann will join the expanding cognitive science program in fall 2014.

Byron Jones'15 (CLAS) with U.S. Representative Elizabeth Esty in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2013 when he sered as an intern in Esty's office on Capital Hill.

Byron Jones Manages Double Coverage On and Off the Gridiron

The Huskies cornerback spent the summer as an intern in Hartford and Washington.

From left to right: Bernard Grela, associate professor and head of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, and master’s students Carrie Adams, Minal Kadam, and Sarah Smialek, discuss the progress of the Read to Succeed students. (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo)

Helping Adults with Reading Disabilities Improve Their Language Skills

A group of UConn speech-language pathologists is working with participants in an adult literacy program in Hartford.