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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
$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
Plant and Soil Center Opens to the Public
UConn celebrated the opening of the George Leigh Minor Plant and Soil Health Center, bringing together research, diagnostics, and community engagement and advance plant and soil health across Connecticut
June 11, 2026 | Jason Sheldon - College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
UConn Unifies Shipbuilding Efforts Under One Banner
The UConn Shipbuilding Initiative offers students and researchers opportunities in key national security industry
June 10, 2026 | Matt Engelhardt
$1.5M Gift Establishes the Chase-Bear-Dyer Advanced Triage Unit at UConn Health and the Chase-Bear-Dyer Family Classroom at the UConn School of Law
The gift will expand the emergency care department at UConn Health and enhance learning spaces for School of Law students
June 8, 2026 | Siobhan Murray, UConn Foundation
Helping Huskies Rise
Can belonging be the breakthrough?
June 2, 2026 | Julie (Stagis) Bartucca '10 (BUS, CLAS), '19 MBA - UConn Communications
Shucking Success: The Next Generation of Connecticut Shellfish Farmers
UConn Extension and Connecticut Sea Grant prepare aspiring entrepreneurs to navigate the challenges of shellfish aquaculture and sustain Connecticut’s historic working waterfront
May 28, 2026 | Jason Sheldon - College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
UConn Students Earn Gilman Scholarships
22 UConn students have earned Gilman awards in the last two cohorts for a total of more than $75,000 in scholarship funding
May 20, 2026 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Partners in Life and in the Lab
How one couple turned their shared life in UConn Health research into a generous legacy that will jumpstart students’ scientific careers
May 19, 2026 | Siobhan Murray, UConn Foundation