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Neag School Members Bring Holocaust, Identity Education to Local High School
'Breaking Bias and Creating Community' is an experience that features interactive Holocaust survivor testimony, a virtual reality tour of a concentration camp, and a photo exhibit that focuses on identity
August 13, 2024 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Porcine Hydrogels Hold Potential Key for Regenerative Engineering
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin leads team researching a gap in regenerative engineering that could be solved with material collected from pig skeletal muscle
August 13, 2024 | Matt Engelhardt
UConn 4-H Sparks Career Exploration for Tahlia Watson of Bloomfield
For Tahlia Watson, UConn 4-H provided a spark that ignited a love for working with animals, leadership, and community engagement
August 13, 2024 | Stacey Stearns, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources & UConn Extension
Understanding what Makes Ticks Tick Through Their Spit
Andrei Abarientos ‘26 (CAHNR) is interning this summer at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a National Institutes of Health laboratory, to learn about a unique aspect of this harmful insect
August 12, 2024 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
CAHNR Alum Tyler Gavitt Uses Science to Design Vaccines and Foster Open Public Health Discussion
From transformational research experiences, to basketball championships and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, three-time UConn alum Tyler Gavitt shares his UConn journey and where it's taken him
August 9, 2024 | Jessica McBride, PhD
New Grant Focuses on Improving Meat Quality
CAHNR researchers will investigate if Vitamin E as a dietary supplement can improve the meat from cattle with hypertension
$1 Million and Counting in Free Community Care by UConn Students
Since 2007 the Urban Service Track/AHEC Scholars at UConn have been providing critical health care access to underserved Connecticut citizens directly inside their communities as they train together to be the next generation of well-rounded primary care and health care professionals
August 7, 2024 | Lauren Woods
Of Mice and Machine Learning
Varun Chamarty ’26 (ENG) hopes that machine learning will help researchers make discoveries that they might otherwise not be able to see, using new tools to build on a growing body of neuroscientific research
August 7, 2024 | Jaclyn Severance
Helping Businesses Grow: Turfgrass Field Day Connects Research and Industry
The flagship event helps foster collaboration and connection between UConn research and members of the business community
August 7, 2024 | Jessica McBride, PhD
Back From Biking Coast-to-Coast
Dental students continue 19-year UConn Health tradition of cycling cross-country for a cause
August 6, 2024 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)