Student life

Students celebrate at commencement.

Career Successes of Recent Grads Underscore Strong ROI of a UConn Education

UConn’s most recent cohort of graduates earned annual starting salaries of nearly $65,000 on average – up about $5,200 from the previous year

Storrs Center. (Ryan Glista/UConn Photo)

Mansfield Is Updating Its 10-Year Plan, and These Sophomores Want the UConn Community to Help

'How we can develop the area better, not only to suit the needs of everybody, but really to help UConn students?'

A young woman stands in front of a glass door, behind which is a seed library.

Sowing the Seeds of a New Community Resource

'A place on campus where you’re able to get the seeds you need, the pots you need, and the other resources you need to grow your own food'

Three young people converse with each other in a crowded room.

Research Day 2025 Highlights Medical and Dental Research Breadth

'Research and innovation have everything to do with being a good doctor'

Graduating UConn medical student and future primary care doctor Lily Zhong celebrating Match Day 2025 with her parents.

111 UConn Medical Students Meet Their Residency Match

Largest Match Day ever for Connecticut’s No. 1 producer of new doctors, UConn School of Medicine

A researcher stands in front of a research poster

Meet the Undergraduate Researcher: Kayvona Brown, CLAS

A McNair Scholar and community advocate with a passion for supporting survivors

HackUConn winners

HackUConn Turns Students into Problem Solvers

The annual hackathon brought together the Werth Institute, internal and external sponsors, and UConn’s Technology Commercialization Services

One of the entries included at the theme park expo.

Everyone Loves a Roller Coaster . . . Right?!

Prospective engineering students at UConn’s Hartford campus learn about career challenges, realities and opportunities through hands-on experience and training

A Black father teaching sign language to his son.

Humanities Project Looks at Black American Sign Language, African American English

'It’s important to unpack how systemic structures influence the way people live'

Students link arms at HuskyTHON, looking out at a crowd holding up their phone lights in the darkened field house.

UConn Students Are Ready for 26th Annual HuskyTHON

Candygrams, raw eggs, hot sauce: Anything for a good cause