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NIH Extends UConn Pepper Center Grant

The Center, which specializes in Precision Gerontology, plans interdisciplinary expansion to Storrs

Students at 2026 CAHNR Commencement

UConn Expanding Spring Commencement Schedule to Ease Traffic and Parking, Give Guests More Time to Celebrate

'Moving forward, candidates and guests can linger comfortably on campus, perhaps stopping to take photographs at their favorite spots, and not feel so rushed to leave'

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UConn Researcher Takes a Look at Relationship Between Women and Guns

‘When we don’t ask questions about how this is different for women, we then don’t look for policy solutions that will help address the part of this epidemic that women bear’

Molecular simulation of a folded tropoelastin protein surrounded by water molecules, with colorful ribbons representing its structure.

UConn Researchers Uncover Water’s Critical Role in Human Tissue Elasticity

New research from Anna Tarakanova and Metehan Çam offers insight into a decades-long scientific debate about what makes the human body’s tissues stretch and spring back. 

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NIH Grant Supports Development of Innovative 3D Organoid Platform for Drug Discovery

Xueju “Sophie” Wang is developing a “micro-lab” to support organoid growth and functional evaluation

Attendees of the 2024 Northeast Power Electronics Symposium pose for a group photo in a conference room.

Northeast Power Electronics Symposium To Be Held at UConn for the Third Year

The third annual NEPES symposium will be held at UConn this November, bringing together industry leaders, researchers, and students to explore emerging technologies and strengthen collaborations.

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UConn Magazine: The Seven Wonders of Walden Pond

Please join us in Concord, Massachusetts, for an eye-opening trip around the kettle lake that Henry David Thoreau made famous more than 170 years ago

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Ask UConn Extension: What to Know About PFAS and Microplastics

UConn Extension offers an overview of what residents should know about contaminants that have become widespread in our environment

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UConn Gathering Connects the Science of Reading with Classrooms Worldwide

A student exchange with Hebrew University builds on Haskins’ history of discovery and its work with educators close to home and around the world

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The Boundary-Pushing Punch Brothers Return to Jorgensen

'We were attracted to each other initially musically out of this shared bond of instrumental music and what was possible within this string band format'