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George Kuchel, MD, Director, UConn Center on Aging and UConn Pepper Center speaking at the first annual meeting of the UConn Aging and UConn Pepper Center held at the Mark Twain House and Museum

UConn’s Experts in Aging Honor Colleagues and Highlight Advances

'This is a time of remarkable innovation in geriatric medicine and gerontology'

Photo of plants overlayed by text reading "Cultural food guide: tackling food insecurity"

Tackling Food Insecurity: Cultural Food Guide

The UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health is tackling food insecurity with cultural food guides

Horsebarn Hill at UConn

Agriculture Contributes $4 Billion to CT Economy, Report Shows

'The numbers are significant and it’s important to recognize [agriculture’s] proper placement in the state economy'

The Early Occupation of Sicily project team is hoping to detail the island's earliest human inhabitants and their impacts on the island ecosystem. Here they are investigating Ice Age hyena coprolites (fossilized feces). From left to right: Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Peyton Carroll, Christian Tryon, and Ilaria Patania.

How Long Have Humans Called Sicily Home?

UConn researchers are collaborating to help answer this surprisingly tricky question

Hand with ballot papers and ballot box.

Voting Is Social Work: Empowering Social Workers to Empower Voters

'We've always believed that social work has the power to transform democracy'

UConn alum Emilia Kwasniak at her job at Nickelodeon.

Three UConn Business Students/Alums Helped Shape Network News, Entertainment Industry This Year

‘When I walk into work every day I think: This job was made for me'

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UConn’s Promising Stroke Medicine One Step Closer to Clinical Trial Testing

NIH awards $2 Million more to UConn School of Medicine to advance its research for a new medicine healing stroke damage inside the brain

UConn Hartford Housing Event at 64 Pratt Street in Hartford, CT

UConn Deepening Ties to Capital City With ‘UConn IN Hartford’ Initiative

'This is such a big deal because of what it’s going to lead to'

Sepia photograph of six students bundled in winter coats

Month of Discovery: Nadine Noaman ‘26, Uncovering UConn Muslim History

A BOLD scholar and third-generation Husky, Noaman is documenting the past five decades of Muslim activism at UConn – including her own

Thanh Nguyen

Nguyen a Biomedical Engineering Star

The National Institutes of Health is funding four significant projects for UConn researcher Thanh Nguyen, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation further supporting his work