Community Impact

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.

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.

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.

On May 21, HDI and the Commission shared a preview of the Commission’s statewide strategic plan’s recommendations at the Connecticut State Capitol.

Connecticut Addressing the Impact of Racism on Health

State Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health and UConn Health Disparities Institute Debut its Recommendations for Connecticut Legislators

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Power and Environmental Engineering Faculty Explore Wildfire and Power Grid Nexus in a Changing Climate

Junbo Zhao led a study in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, which suggests a comprehensive approach to strengthen power grid resilience against the rising threat of wildfires

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Disaster Response: Master and Apprentice

UConn Health emergency medicine physicians Rob Fuller, Caroline Lloyd back from Myanmar earthquake aid mission

Connecticut high school seniors celebrating their successful graduation from the Senior Doctors Academy of the Health Career Opportunities Programs (HCOP) of UConn Health on May 14, 2025 (Photo by John Atashian).

‘Doctors Academy’ Graduates Win College Scholarships

Connecticut High School Seniors graduated on May 14 from the Health Career Opportunity Programs of UConn Health

A woman in a blue t-shirt stands next to a history display in Enfield, Connecticut.

Using TheirStory to Help Tell Our Stories

UConn's Fiona Vernal is helping CT communities collect oral histories with the aid of a new online platform

Graduates of UConn School of Medicine Class of 2025 celebrating on May 12 at the UConn Health 54th Commencement in Storrs.

UConn Graduates the Next Generation of the Health Care Workforce

UConn Health’s 54th Commencement graduated 258 new physicians, dentists, scientists, and public health experts