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UConn Health Center August Programs, Events

Here’s what’s happening in August and early September.

Kamisha Byas

Summer Enrichment Programs at the UConn Health Center

Dozens of students wrapped up weeks of hard work by presenting research posters and attending closing ceremonies.

UConn Health Accolades (Shutterstock image)

Health Center Accolades – July 2012

Mauriello elected chair of compliance forum; Gould receives social justice award; Laurencin cited by general assembly; and Arciero to lead sports medicine society.

Richard Skinner, D.M.D., Pediatric Dentistry, checks care provided to a patient by Carver Little, ‘06 SODM, at Burgdorf Community Health Clinic. (Al Ferreira/UConn Health Center Photo)

Sharing the Cost of Dental Care

A healthy mouth is directly linked to general health, making dental services an essential component of overall health care.

Leslie Loew, director of the Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling at the UConn Health Center on February 27, 2008. (Lanny Nagler for UConn Health Center)

Biophysicist in Profile

For Leslie Loew, the Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Cell Sciences, it all started with a chemistry set.

Health Center in the News

Health Center in the News – July 24, 2012

Power squared; why you need a vacation; could stem cells slow the aging process; and sometimes dust is the problem.

Visiting fellow Douglas Varner joins Evelyn Morgen for the second of his two site visits at the Stowe Library, part of the National Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellows Program running from November 2011 through October 2012. (Chris DeFrancesco/UConn Health Center Photo)

Health Center Library Director Serving as Mentor

Evelyn Morgen is one of five mentors chosen for a national leadership program for future library directors.

Coping with Tragedy

Violent acts such as the movie theatre shooting in Colorado demonstrate the need to address the mental and emotional wounds in addition to the physical ones.

Coast to Coast 2012

Coast-to-Coast Riders Roughly Halfway Home

This year’s cross-country-cycling students have made it over the Rockies into Kansas.

Rocky the Rock Cat, Joseph Fazzino from Virtus Mutual Funds, Dr. Pramod Srivastava, and Jonathan the Husky at the 2012 Cancer Survivors Day. (Donna Hamzy for UConn Health Center)

UConn Health Center Celebrates Cancer Survivors Day

More than 350cancer survivors and their guests marked the day at New Britain Rock Cats Stadium.