Community Impact

Bent Cordy rides one of his COMA skateboards at the Mansfield Skate Park on Sept. 25, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Intellectual Property Clinic: Help for Inventors, Experience for Students

UConn's Intellectual Property Law Clinic assists clients with services such as patent applications, trademark registration applications, and copyright issues.

An interdisciplinary panel of UConn experts offered perspectives on the upcoming Presidential election during a public event moderated by President Herbst at the Hartford Public Library on Sept. 22. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Campaigns and Candidates: Experts Discuss Presidential Election

UConn experts offered a variety of perspectives on the upcoming election at an event at the Hartford Public Library.

Watercolor. (iStock Image)

‘Tasty Waste Lunch’ Offers Food for Thought

This week, UConn Dining Services will serve a meal produced entirely from 'leftovers' for the first time.

A pharmacist sits with a patient in the consultation area and discusses her prescription. (iStock Photo)

New Website Connects Mental Health Patients and Pharmacists

A UConn faculty member led the recent effort to launch a website with a searchable directory of more than 850 mental health pharmacies.

Sickle cell patient Evelyn Richard at the New England Sickle Cell Institute at UConn Health. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

UConn Health Helping Adults With Sickle Cell Live Longer

Care providers at the New England Sickle Cell Institute help patients live longer, healthier, less painful lives.

Members of the UConn Health Special Operations Unit traveled to New York City in a specially equipped vehicle and were assigned to provide medical support for the New York Urban Search and Rescue Team. They are from left to right: William Perkins, Carmine Centrella, John Kowalski, Robert Fuller, M.D., Greg Priest, Ben Sonstrom, and, kneeling, Daryl Byrne. Fuller is chief of emergency medicine for the Health Center and medical director of the group. The others are all paramedics with the special tactical training.

9/11 Memories Still Fresh for UConn Health Responders

Members of the UConn Health Fire and Emergency Departments recall their harrowing experiences at Ground Zero.

Child looking at chips in a bag. (iStock Photo)

Look-alike ‘Smart Snacks’ Confuse Students, Parents

A UConn researcher says selling look-alike Smart Snacks in schools is a tool for marketing junk food brands to children.

Michael Poulin, 70, of West Hartford.

Vascular Surgeon Helps Patient Beat Survival Odds

A 70-year-old survived an abdominal aortic aneurysm, thanks to the quick work of his surgeon and UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

Clothing displayed to show the progressive change from pre-contact to current day Connecticut (in between are colonial and industrial). "Human’s Nature: Looking Closer at the Relationships between People and the Environment" exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.

Natural History Museum to Relocate, Expand Public Outreach

With its relocation, the museum will boost its outreach to the community and expand its work with partners at the University.

Local middle school teachers Celeste Estevez and William Eller work on a solving a research problem.

Program Gives Teachers Lab Time

STEM teachers from secondary schools and community colleges worked on research projects at UConn this summer, an experience that they will take back to their classes.