Out of the Blue

UConn Women's Basketball players on the court while the crowd holds up signs spelling out "1217"

A Historic Night in Storrs

His 1,217th career victory solidifies Coach Geno Auriemma as the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history

A glacier calving into the sea

Seeking Climate JUSTICE for All

A team of UConn researchers is changing climate conversations for good

Students Deliver Free Dental Care at Major Statewide Event

Over 50 students participated in this year’s Connecticut Mission of Mercy Free Dental Clinic

visual mashup of photo of UConn basketball players and students in fatigues undergoing training at horsebarn hill in storrs ct

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.

Benjamin Fuller presenting his work

Professors Creating Computing Models to Increase Public Trust During Elections

The team will report on optimizing the standard for auditing election reporting, analyzing elections and their components, and specifying procedures for desired security

Photo of plants overlayed by text reading "Cultural food guide: tackling food insecurity"

Tackling Food Insecurity: Cultural Food Guide

The UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health is tackling food insecurity with cultural food guides

Hand with ballot papers and ballot box.

Voting Is Social Work: Empowering Social Workers to Empower Voters

'We've always believed that social work has the power to transform democracy'

Drone photo looking over the Student Union towards Wilbur Cross

Unusual Expertise Brings Coveted Autism Award to UConn

It's been known for over a century that slowing and deepening breathing can decrease anxiety, yet there is surprisingly little evidence in the literature supporting this as a therapeutic intervention for people with autism

A pregnant woman in the hallway of a hospital.

Researchers Receive $2.5 Million in NIH Funding to Address Placenta Accreta

Placenta accreta is a rapidly growing disease during pregnancy

Yidan Zhang, a Ph.D. student at UConn, displays some of the seaweed she’s pulled from the Long Island Sound off Stonington. A member of the Atlantic Sea Solution startup, she is refining the process of using seaweed extract as an edible coating that reduces food spoilage.

A Marriage of Land & Sea: UConn Agricultural Startup Seeks to Slow Food Spoilage 

'Creating a company is very, very daunting, but at the same time it keeps life interesting'