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Understanding Elastins to Develop Therapies for Aging-Related Conditions
CAREER Award-winning engineering professor Anna Tarakanova seeks to understand how therapies targeting elastins - the proteins that tissue and organs need to stretch - can improve the lives of aging adults
An Online Program Supports Mental Wellbeing for Parents and Children Affected by Divorce
Na Zhang has received an NIH/NIMH K01 grant to design an online mindfulness training module and test its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy combined with an established behavioral parenting training intervention for divorced or separated parents experiencing psychological distress
Standing Against Despair
UConn researchers offer tools and perspectives to reduce gun violence in the US
COVID-19 and Obesity Disparities for Black Communities
A new study provides recommendations for behavioral weight loss interventions to address the unmet needs of Black people with obesity
Feel Your Best Self: Educators, Puppets Unite to Teach Kids About Emotions
Enduring the turmoil of a global pandemic for more than two years now, many of us have struggled. We can recognize the importance of self-care and wellness, but not everyone has necessarily adopted a daily meditation practice or quit their late-night doomscrolling. By now, though, perhaps we can admit to ourselves one thing: It’s OK to not be OK in every moment.
Conflicts Between Nursing Home Residents are Often Chalked Up to Dementia – the Real Problem is Inadequate Care and Neglect
Even though these incidents are common, they are untracked, understudied, and unaddressed
The Impact of COVID-19 on Food-Shopping Behavior for Food-Insecure Populations
Differences in shopping behavior highlight another health disparity for lower-income individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic
UConn Researcher Decreasing HIV Risk for People Who Use Drugs
Michael Copenhaver is working on two grants to improve outcomes for people who use drugs and are at a greater risk for HIV
UConn Health Researchers Receive a $3.1 Million Dollar Grant to Study Pandemic-Related Stress in Families with Infants
Damion Grasso and Margaret Briggs-Gowan developed a tool to measure pandemic-related stress. They are now applying it in a study focused on families who gave birth and are now raising infants during the pandemic
Confronting Gun Violence With Scholarship
April 1 panel will bring together U.S. senators, scholars, advocates to address urgent policy questions