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UConn CT Trails Program: Know Before You Go with CT Trail Finder

A comprehensive resource for exploring Connecticut’s plentiful trails

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Partners in Life and in the Lab

How one couple turned their shared life in UConn Health research into a generous legacy that will jumpstart students’ scientific careers

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BUILDing Connecticut’s Capital City: Unique UConn Course Celebrates Five Years of Partnership, Collaboration, and Hartford Stories

'BUILD Hartford is a hands-on UConn course that turns digital storytelling into real support for Hartford’s businesses'

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Celebrating a Centennial: UConn Law Library a Cherished Place

‘There’s a reason why we celebrate the library building. ... It belongs to everybody’

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TaylorMade Golf CEO David Abeles ‘93 Says Success Comes from Strategy, Passion, and the Right Corporate Culture

'At UConn I had wonderful, incredible classmates and professors. I remember some of my classes like they were yesterday'

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The Helper

Stephanie Mora Gutierrez ’27 brings dedication and passion to everything she does, from the student experience at UConn to the nonprofit she founded

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The Power of Academic Medicine: Multidisciplinary Team Saves Young Man with Rare, Aggressive Cancer

Sebastian Sanchez’s sudden illness revealed one of the fastest-growing cancers. Through seamless collaboration across specialties, UConn Health’s academic medical center delivered the complex, time-sensitive care needed to save his life

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Alum Lucas Ruiz Examines Nuclear Policy Among Global Powers

From working on a Storrs farm to convening gatherings of global experts on nuclear weapons, Ruiz credits UConn with giving him the skills to succeed

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Two-Day Puerto Rican Summit Aims for Change

Puerto Rico: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, sponsored by UConn’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Community Engagement and Public Policy (UConnPRSI), was held March 20-21

The future Dr. Parth Patel SOM Class of 2026 in Academic lobby sitting.

Medical Minds Matter Nonprofit Founded at UConn Growing Nationally

Medical Minds Matter is destigmatizing the discussion of mental health in medicine especially early-on for the next generation of the health care workforce