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NIH Extends UConn Pepper Center Grant
The Center, which specializes in Precision Gerontology, plans interdisciplinary expansion to Storrs
November 10, 2026 | Matt Engelhardt
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'
November 9, 2026 | Stephanie Reitz - UConn Communications
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’
November 9, 2026 | Kimberly Phillips
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.
November 9, 2026 | Sarah Redmond - College of Engineering
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
November 9, 2026 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
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.
November 6, 2026 | Sarah Redmond - College of Engineering
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
November 5, 2026 | Combined Reports - UConn Communications
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
November 5, 2026 | Alec Janis, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources & UConn Extension
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
November 5, 2026 | Fumiko Hoeft, Campus Dean and Chief Administrative Officer, UConn Waterbury
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'
November 5, 2026 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications