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Karen Dahl ’99 (CLAS) speaking with AmeriCorps leaders outside New York City Hall in April.

UConn Magazine: When the White House Calls

For Karen Dahl ’99 (CLAS), lead architect of the Biden administration’s ambitious Public Health AmeriCorps job-training initiative, the path to a presidential appointment began with a chance encounter.

Professor Jon Bauer.

Federal Court Cites UConn Law Professor on Key Immigration Case

2nd Circuit appeals court cites Jon Bauer's work in overturning a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals

smiling woman in a field

Buzzkill for Bugs: Jillian Bowen Educates Kids on Insect-Borne Illness

One student's summer internship helps keep Connecticut residents informed on tick- and mosquito-borne illness with a focus on One Health

Reynolds, far left, and Iassogna, third from left, before Game 3 of the 2015 American League championship series in Toronto.

UConn Magazine: Play Ball!

From spitballs to spin rates, these two alums have stayed with every curve thrown at them in a combined four decades of umpiring Major League Baseball.

Researcher looking at Shigella bacteria

Science in Seconds: How Our Immune System Recognizes Pathogen Infections

UConn Health immunology researcher Jianbin Ruan uses high tech tools to study how certain pathogens can escape our immune system and cause serious infections and diseases

UConn Orthodontics Program Recognized Nationally for Research Activity

Since 1997, UConn has received at least 38 awards from the American Association of Orthodontists, with a total research funding of approximately $660,000

JAMA Study: U.S. Hospital Adverse Events Drop Significantly

'Our data shows that the major safety improvement efforts made by our country and our hospitals seems to be paying off'

UConn students Robert Avena (left) and Sumeet Kadian (right) pose for a photo in front of the Hop River Trail tunnel in Bolton Notch State Park that runs under Interstate 384 in Bolton, CT

For Popular Trail, There’s Light at the End – and the Beginning, and the Middle – of the Tunnel

UConn students' Service Learning project will help make the Hop River Trail safer for the thousands of bikers and pedestrians who use it

Algae testing

Algae Agreement Offers an Ocean of Research Possibilities

UConn's Technology Commercialization Services brokered an agreement with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Services to preserve an extensive collection of algae

Mark Brand, professor of horticulture, stands with a descendent of the beloved "swing tree" growing along Swan Lake

Legacy of Beloved Former ‘Swing Tree’ Lives on As its Progeny Thrive on Campus

Instagram-famous tree was the only known example of Dahurian birch in the region