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New NIH Funding to Advance Lung Cancer Screening Technology
R33 grant to develop and optimize a programmable smartphone-based diagnostic platform to detect mutations in blood samples
June 18, 2026 | Courtney Chandler - UConn Health
UConn Adopts FY27 Budget That Keeps Tuition Flat, Continues Expense Mitigation Strategies
The new budget balances UConn's commitment to academic excellence and student success with the financial challenges facing higher education at large
June 17, 2026 | Stephanie Reitz - UConn Communications
Targeting Schwann Cells: A New Approach to Repairing Corneal Injury
New publication from UConn Health researchers demonstrates promising technique for healing damage from dry eye, surgery, and toxin exposure
June 17, 2026 | Mac Murray
What You Need to Know About Screwworm
There are no current cases of New World Screwworm (NWS) in the Northeast, but one UConn expert shares information to keep Connecticut animals and residents safe
June 17, 2026 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
UConn Magazine: The Last Cookie in the Box
Arthur M. Horwitz dates his hall-of-fame journalism career not to his appointment as the editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Daily Campus but to his days on a New Haven paper route
June 17, 2026 | Combined Reports - UConn Communications
From Kitchen Tables to Healthier Futures: 50+ Years of EFNEP
What began as in-home cooking lessons in the 1960s is now a program that reaches across Connecticut with evidence-based, impact-driven nutrition education
June 16, 2026 | Stacey Stearns, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources & UConn Extension
The Beekley Family Foundation Makerspace: Powering Nursing Innovation at UConn
Mission-driven support for the next generation of nurse innovators
June 16, 2026 | Stephanie Wright, UConn Foundation
Study Finds Positive Aging Videos Affected Women’s Views of Getting Older – For the Better
Researchers theorize that having a positive aging role model might be enough to change one’s own thinking: 'If they look good with gray hair, I might too'
June 15, 2026 | Kimberly Phillips
$12M Grant to UConn from Connecticut’s Department of Transportation to Extend Partnership
UConn is essential to processing crash reports (almost 9,000 a month) and making the data available to stakeholders
June 15, 2026 | Claire Galvin
Scientists Can Now Measure the “Urban Pulse” from Space
A new framework developed by researchers at UConn and Yale uses high-frequency satellite data to track the vital signs of global cities in near real-time, fundamentally changing how we understand urbanization
June 12, 2026 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources