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Because of UConn Campaign Crosses $900M Mark in Biggest Fundraising Year in History

Donors increased funding for students’ emergency needs by 930% in latest fiscal year and provided 33,159 scholarships and fellowships to students since the campaign began

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Ask UConn Extension: What to Know About Cyclospora

Cases of the foodborne illness caused by the parasite have been in the news. UConn Extension experts share practical steps to reduce risk and stay healthy

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Paramedic Services in Storrs Increase with New Program

Paramedics are a part of the Emergency Medical System whose qualifications allow them to provide advanced life support measures

An aerial view spring blossoms across campus

UConn Researchers Win Inaugural DOE Genesis Mission Award

Natural Resources and Environment associate professor Wei Ren leads a project seeking to reveal underground movement of water and chemicals

Six moments of a melting snowflake, captured with a lensless chip on a nanometer-scale.

Christmas in July: UConn Engineers Capture Gigapixel 3D Video of Snowflakes

Instead of treating movement over time as a limitation, the system uses those changes to show more detail than a conventional camera could, opening up new possibilities for studying cells, and (even in the summer) snowflakes

Two students working on a table sewing a quilt

Connectedness and Responsibility: Outgoing Institute Director Weighs in on the Current Significance of Human Rights Education

Libal talks about some of the most pressing human rights issues we’re currently facing, the importance of human rights education, and what students as well as average community members can do to help enact change

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New UConn Survey Finds 53% of Connecticut Parents Say Childcare is Too Expensive

Statewide survey conducted by UConn and the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood provides an updated benchmark for tracking childcare access and affordability

A group of four people, two men, Leonard Blanks and Otis Wade, and two women Courtney and Solé Blanks, pose proudly for a photo. They are all dressed in suits. The two women have one hand on each shoulder of the elder gentleman, Otis, sitting at a table in the foreground of the group shot.

UConn Magazine: “Blue-and-White Blood”

On Mother’s Day 2025, Solé Blanks ’25 (CLAS), ’26 MA, draped in blue regalia, stepped across the floor of Gampel Pavilion when her name was called, continuing a family legacy as the fourth generation to graduate from UConn

Students in the CVMDL testing ticks

I Love CT, But It’s the Season of the Ticks

Stick Season has nothing on Tick Season. UConn experts share insights about how this year is shaping up

A man puts a sample of hot sauce on a piece of food being held out by a woman.

Veterans’ Bootcamp Graduates 21 Entrepreneurs – Including One Who Appreciated a Great Hot Sauce Before He was Born

 ‘It could make a dirty shoe taste good!’