Community Impact

Students playing the cello, violin, and piano who are participating in the Jorgensen Outreach for Youth program

Jorgensen Conservatory Program Helps Area Teens Find JOY! in Music

'It's completely changed my life. I wouldn't be a professional musician without it'

Group of people meeting outside

Reflecting on the Impact of Conservation Training Partnerships

While UConn’s unique Conservation Training Partnerships program has concluded its five-year run, the environmental projects it inspired and relationships it established continue to support Connecticut communities

Leslie Caromile portrait

Opening Doors to More Diversity in Biomedical Sciences

The UConn Health Graduate School is working to widen the pipeline to attract more students from historically underrepresented groups to study — and stay in — the biomedical sciences.

The South Park Inn Honors Dr. Bruce Gould with 2022 Community Leadership Award

The South Park Inn’s new Advisory Committee has awarded Dr. Bruce E. Gould of UConn School of Medicine its 2022 Community Leadership Award for his outstanding contributions.

Community health workers assist patients as they gather their medications and supplements to discuss them during remote visits with pharmacists.

How Pharmacists and Community Health Workers Build Trust with Cambodian Genocide Survivors

With training in trauma-informed care, health workers help survivors improve their mental and physical health

Caption: Participants in the Hate Crimes Practicum included Luke Reynolds '22, Rebecca Oestreicher '23, Associate Dean Richard Wilson, Hallie Tingstad '22, Devon Fray '22 and Laura David '22. (Molly Sullivan photo)

UConn Law Work on Hate Crimes Already Getting Results

Student research will yield recommendations to Gov. Lamont and General Assembly

Crosses bearing the names of the victims of a mass shooting in front of Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. The rural Texas community is in mourning following a shooting at Robb Elementary School which killed 21 people including 19 children.

Standing Against Despair

UConn researchers offer tools and perspectives to reduce gun violence in the US

Joshua Onyirimba Teaching at FLIP

At-Risk High Schoolers Learning Personal Finance Basics at UConn

About 50 students from four high schools in Hartford and East Hartford have been traveling by bus to UConn’s Storrs campus for several Saturdays this spring to learn the basics of personal finance.

Sethuraman Panchanathan, right, director of the National Science Foundation, speaks with Ofer Harel, left, associate dean and professor of statistics, Anne D'Alleva, interim provost, and Emmanouil Anagnostou, interim executive director, during a tour of the Innovation Partnership Building

National Science Foundation Director Praises Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UConn

'When I think of UConn, it should be an acronym for University of Connectivity'

From left: Interim UConn President Radenka Maric, NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad, DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, Interim Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Pamir Alpay, State Sen. Cathy Osten, Professor of Marine Sciences George McManus, State Rep. Christine Conley, State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, Senior Counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Sara Gonzalez-Rothi, and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy.

UConn, Others Celebrate Research Estuary Amid Shoreline Breezes, Boat Tours

Federal designation offers resources, protection for coastal Connecticut