Out of the Blue

Evan Elmore, a young man with dark hair and glasses, wears a white t-shirt and sits with his arms crossed in this portrait.

Scene Summer: UConn Film Student Documenting Underground Music in Connecticut

'All the bands support each other, and all the crowds are respectful, and everyone just wants to have a good time'

A reporter with a camera hanging from his neck and microphone in his hand interviews a military officer.

War-Torn Central America in the 1980s Comes to Life in New Historical Memoir

It all started with a Polaroid Swinger camera and leather-bound diary

illustration of elderly playing cards at a community table

UConn Magazine: The Good Neighbor

Michelle (Bussiere) Puzzo ’98 (CAHNR) is transforming Connecticut communities with a growing business and a simple mantra, “Just help people that say they need help”

Entryway sign lit up green for St. Patricks Day and for Sustainability. March 16, 2022.

Five UConn Student Teams Innovate Decarbonization This Summer Through Eversource-Supported Challenge

The winning team will receive additional funding to continue their work throughout the academic year

Contingent Management is an effective bridge therapy for patients during their early addiction recovery journey. (AdobeStock image.

Increasing Contingency Management Incentives Will Help More Patients Recover from Addiction

JAMA Psychiatry study recommends nationwide Contingency Management care guardrails with data-driven, evidence-based reward amounts to ensure effective and better care outcomes

meadow in the summer

CT DEEP Releases New Wildlife Action Plan with Support from UConn’s CAHNR

With the goal of identifying species in need and actions to take, the Statewide Wildlife Action Plan incorporates scientific expertise and comments from the public

Happy family talking and smiling together at home

‘The Ability to Give and Receive Love’: Researchers Look at Effects of Acceptance, Rejection

'There’s no single experience in human life that's more important than the experience of being cared about by the people who are most important to you'

Students and a health coordinator at a table outside

UConn Students Combat Opioid Crisis in CT through Adopt a Health District Program

Through the program, UConn students help Connecticut communities tackle the opioid crisis, from Narcan training to safe medication disposal techniques

A man opens an in-home cancer testing kit on a desk.

UConn Entrepreneur Aims to Revolutionize Men’s Health Care

Reza Amin’s Bastion Health creates virtual, confidential, progressive approach to medical screening to help save lives

A woman is seated in an art gallery.

Beautiful Moments: SFA Alum Brings Smiles to Bridal Couples with Live Event Painting

When Erin Leigh Boughamer '94 (SFA) left UConn three decades ago with a degree in graphic design from the School of Fine Arts, event painting hadn’t yet become part of bridal vocabulary. To ask her back then if she foresaw herself with a wardrobe of dressy pantsuits, each with at least a little dollop of acrylic paint on them, she’d have said no way