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Nine Consecutive AHA Gold Level Awards for Heart Attack Care Excellence
For the ninth year in a row UConn Health and its UConn John Dempsey Hospital have been awarded The American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline® –STEMI Receiving Center – Gold award.
Ming Xu, Ph.D. of UConn receives AFAR Rising Star Award in Aging Research
“A recipient of multiple AFAR grants, Dr. Xu has made a highly significant contribution to the field of aging research early in his career,” shares The American Federation for Aging Research.
Thank You NICU!
Since its founding in 1975, the Connecticut Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UConn Health has cared for thousands of babies in the region. Erin McEwen is one of them. She was born more than two months premature and spent the first several weeks of her life in our NICU. Erin now works here as […]
EPA Begins Testing ‘Owl Force One’ DIY Air Cleaner Made by Connecticut Public School Children
On July 26 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists began testing the power of the low-cost DIY 'Corsi-Rosenthal' box air purifier against infectious aerosols, like the virus that causes COVID-19, at its EPA Homeland Security Division Laboratory’s high-tech, advanced biochamber.
Connecticut High School Students Conducting Research at UConn Health
UConn Health’s programs are having an enormous impact on the youth of Connecticut, the future of science and the research and health care workforce. Learn how and meet some of this year's graduates of the High School Research Apprentice Program of the longstanding Health Career Opportunities Program.
UConn Road Trip to EPA Launches DIY Air Filter High-Tech Biochamber Testing
A letter from a Middletown fifth-grader to a UConn researcher started it all: Now, EPA scientists will test the power of the low-cost DIY 'Corsi-Rosenthal' box air purifier against infectious aerosols, like the virus that causes COVID-19. The device being tested on July 26 was made and decorated by the 9-year-old and her classmates
Tackling the Aspartame Argument with a UConn Health Expert
Natalie Ranelli, registered dietitian in UConn Health’s Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, weighs in on synthetic sweetener’s safety
Science in Seconds: Banking on Blood
UConn Health researchers are working to reinforce the nation’s blood supply
UConn John Dempsey Hospital Nationally Recognized for Commitment to Providing High-Quality Stroke Care.
"We are the highest level of care," says Jennifer Sposito, the UConn Health Stroke Center’s clinical program coordinator. “Patients requiring thrombectomy or any neurosurgical procedure are able to come directly to UConn to be cared for immediately without the need to transfer to a higher level of care."
Dr. Alan Lurie Selected as Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Mentor in the UConn School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Alan Lurie, professor and chair, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, has been selected as the inaugural “Outstanding Faculty Mentor” in the School of Dental Medicine.