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Physician interacting with patient in exam room

Husky Finds His Way Home — to UConn Sports Medicine

Dr. Corey R. Dwyer, who spent 14 years as a UConn student or resident, returns to join the School of Medicine faculty as an orthopedic surgeon with expertise in complex shoulder cases

Education Week

3 Decades In, Charter Schools Continue to Face Legal Challenges

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Liisa Kuhn and a student

Kuhn Develops Patent-Pending Process to Create Comfortable Prosthetics for Breast Cancer Survivors

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Liisa Kuhn uses a 3D bioprinter to fabricate breast prosthetics that are lightweight, flexible, and porous

A woman shops in a dollar store with few products on the shelves.

Dollar Store Expansion Pushes Out Independent Grocery Stores, Decreases Local Employment Opportunities

A new study finds one out of every 20 independent grocery stores will go out of business within a few years of a dollar store arriving in their area

Hearst Connecticut Media

Inside UConn’s One-of-a-Kind Puppetry School That Shows Students How to Get to ‘Sesame Street,’ Broadway

Fruit flies on a rotting wrinkled peach.

Fat Flies Live Longer On a Diet At Any Age

Switching the flies’ diet to a low calorie one remained a reliable way to extend lifespan even for old flies in ill health

Rebecca Puhl of the UConn Rudd Center (center) participates in a panel discussion on weight stigma and the media in New York along with Deborah Roberts, Al Roker, David Sloan, and Holly Lofton. (contributed photo).

Taking On Stigmatization and Body-Shaming in the Media

Rebecca Puhl of the UConn Rudd Center was a panelist along with national media figures to discuss the ways in which body weight and obesity are covered and portrayed in the press

During the first week of the Summer Institute, high school students and teachers delved into learning about human rights issues together – a unique, highly intentional, and unexpectedly successful aspect of the program.

Human Rights Close to Home: A Unique Civics Education Program for K-12 Students, Supported By the Redstone Family Foundation, Launched at UConn

'I think we fundamentally underestimate how much our kids can learn even about the biggest and most important issues of today. We just need to teach them in ways that are relatable'

4 UConn students share recycling facts on posters outside a football stadium.

UConn Earns High Marks in Global Sustainable University Ratings

GreenMetric releases global higher education sustainability rankings for 2023

Hearst Connecticut Media

More Dogs Are Getting Sick From Eating Cannabis, Report Shows