Community Impact
SNAP-Ed Supports Nutrition Education, Gains Attention from National Food & Nutrition Services
The program supported by UConn Extension provides nutrition education for Connecticut families, underscores national priorities
April 11, 2022 | Jessica McBride, PhD
Podcast: Supplying CT’s Health Care Workforce
Dr. Bruce T. Liang, dean of the UConn School of Medicine, and Dr. Steven Lepowsky, dean of the UConn School of Dental Medicine, explain the role of the medical, dental, and graduate schools in preparing and producing generations of professionals to maintain Connecticut's health care workforce.
April 7, 2022 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
HuskyTHON Raises Over $1.3 Million For The Kids
The annual dance marathon raised $1,340,670.68 for Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
April 4, 2022 | Sean Flynn
Conference on Anti-Racism to be Held at UConn Hartford
A chance to amplify UConn's role as a key part of intellectual and community life in the capital city
April 1, 2022 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Steward of the Land: Elise Bouthillier Protects and Serves Connecticut Wildlife and Natural Resources
How the James V. Spignesi, Jr. Memorial Scholarship changed the course of one student's life
March 31, 2022 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Citizen’s Police Academy Open at UConn Health
Following success in Storrs and a pilot in Farmington last year, the UConn Police Department is offering its citizen’s police academy to the UConn Health community May through June.
March 30, 2022 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
Homeless No More, Thanks to ‘Guardian Angel’ From UConn Health
“I don’t think I would have lasted another winter.” A man who was homeless for most of the last four decades credits the population health team at UConn Health for helping him find a home.
March 24, 2022 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
One Foot in the Classroom, One Foot in the Courtroom
March 31 event will honor role of UConn Law's John Brittain in historic Sheff v. O'Neill case
March 24, 2022 | Jeanne Leblanc
The G.O.A.T of Goats
Matt Syrotiak turned a love for goats into a life of community service with UConn 4-H
March 22, 2022 | Jessica McBride, PhD
Nurse Researcher Receives Health Disparities Grant from the American Diabetes Association
Louise Reagan's research is testing a mobile app that will help incarcerated individuals self-manage their diabetes when they reenter society from prison
March 21, 2022 | Rachel Antonelli