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Feel Your Best Self Goes to High School

School counselors explore opportunities to integrate Feel Your Best Self into secondary settings at UConn’s School Counselor Day

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Giving Latine Families an ‘Early Head Start’

Vanessa Esquivel, a Ph.D. student in the department of human development & family sciences, has received a major federal grant to study early childhood services for Latine families

Roman Shrestha, Michael Copenhaver, and Pablo Kokay Valente at UConn Waterbury.

Global and Local Impacts of HIV Research in CAHNR

In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2024, UConn Today is highlighting work from researchers in the Department of Allied Health Sciences who are playing a role in this continuing effort close to home and across the globe

Panelists at the "Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Connecticut: Challenges and Opportunities" event

Rudd Center’s Marlene Schwartz Featured on Panel about Food Insecurity in Connecticut

Speakers at the Hartford event discussed strategies to help families across the state facing food and nutrition insecurity.

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Can We Heal Injured Veterans by Studying Basketball?

Neal Glaviano is acutely aware of knee pain's impact in active duty and reserve-based military units – and is applying knowledge gained from working with UConn's student athletes toward helping active-duty service members and veterans.

State Rep. Jaime Foster providing opening remarks during the first annual Moving Beyond Implications: Policy into Research conference at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on January 9, 2024.

Second ‘Moving Beyond Implications’ Conference Aims to Advance Evidence-Based Policy

The conference, which aims to bridge the gap between research and policymaking, is accepting abstract submissions from researchers until Nov. 1

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From Policy to Action: Anna-Michelle McSorley Focuses on Health Equity for Latinos

McSorley's work goes beyond health policy to study political processes, potential political biases, and power dynamics

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Study Investigates Communication, Intimacy Among Couples Facing Metastatic Breast Cancer

After diagnosis and treatment, sex is the most frequently discussed topic among couples facing cancer. While there is work about improving sexual communication, the experiences of people with advanced cancers have been overlooked

DIY "Corsi Rosenthal" air filter device.

UConn Keeping Air in Connecticut Classrooms Safe

$11.5 million in state support awarded to University of Connecticut to deploy effective and inexpensive build-it-yourself air filter technology to every public school classroom across the state.

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Research Assesses Assets and Challenges for North Hartford Food Environment

Using the innovative Photovoice approach, community participants engage in citizen science by sharing their personal, lived experience to enhance research studies and bring awareness to health disparities