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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.

October 21, 2013 | Combined Reports

Selecting the Scoop

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

October 17, 2013 | Juanita Austin '15 (SFA)

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.

October 17, 2013 | Carolyn Pennington

Community Impact UConn Health
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.

October 17, 2013 | Combined Reports

Research & Discovery
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.

October 16, 2013 | Mike Enright, Athletic Communications

Athletics
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.

October 15, 2013 | Sheila Foran

Research & Discovery
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.

October 11, 2013 | Kenneth Best

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.

October 10, 2013 | Bri Diaz, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Community Impact Research & Discovery
Daniel Schwartz, assistant professor of physiology and neurobiology, talks with Joey Shea '14 (ENG) about his new software. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

A New Tool for Visualizing DNA, Protein Sequences

Professor Daniel Schwartz enlisted the help of UConn student programmers to build a faster and more efficient Web program.

October 9, 2013 | Bri Diaz, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Research & Discovery UConn Health
Delta Gamma and Alpha Epsilon Pi march down Gilbert Road during the Homecoming Parade on Oct. 6, 2013. (Juanita Austin/UConn Photo)

Homecoming a Parade of Husky Spirit

Not even the rain on this year's Homecoming parade could dampen the Husky spirit.

October 8, 2013 | Juanita Austin '15 (SFA)