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Larry McHugh and Rose Barham

Medical Student on UConn Board of Trustees First Time in School History

Rose Barham says she’s proud to be the voice for the students and represent their interests on the board.

Health Center in the News

Health Center in the News – Late January 2013

Health Center experts are interviewed about mental health, whooping cough, chicken pox, the flu and more.

Storrs Grants, September 2012

The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) in September 2012. The list represents only new proposals awarded, and excludes continuations. The list is provided each month by OSP. Adamson, D., Chemistry Attractive Forces of Collector Molecules and Minerals by AFM CiDRA Corporate Services Inc., $56,978, 7/12-12/12 Adler, D., Anthropology Doctoral […]

Storrs Grants, August 2012

The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) in August 2012. The list represents only new proposals awarded, and excludes continuations. The list is provided each month by OSP. Anderson, A., Pharmaceutical Sciences Towards the Characterization of Tropolone Natural Product Derivatives as Novel, Potent Anticancer Therapeutics that Selectively Target Histone Deacetylase […]

UConn/Hartford Courant Poll: Majorities Support Measures to Tighten Gun Laws

Connecticut residents say Sandy Hook strengthened their support for stricter gun control.

Luis Van Isschot, assistant professor of history at his office in Wood Hall on Nov. 28, 2012. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Focusing on Human Rights with a Latin American Perspective

Historian Luis van Isschot, who joined the faculty in September, strengthens the global reach of the University's human rights program.

Professor Emerita Marilyn Nelson Elected to American Academy of Poets Board

Nelson joins an elite group of distinguished poets in serving as an ambassador of poetry to the world at large.

Gus Mazzocca, professor emeritus of art and art history, with a retrospective exhibit of his art at the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Fine Arts Building on Jan. 24, 2013. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Mazzocca Exhibition Celebrates Printmaker’s Passion, Four Decades of Students

A retrospective of work by emeritus professor Gus Mazzocca celebrates his legacy as an artist and educator, and includes works by four of his former students.

Xue-Jun Li

Health Center Researcher Advancing Motor Neuron Studies

Xue-Jun Li, Department of Neuroscience, is using stem cells to study the devastating condition known as spinal muscular atrophy.

Lewis R. Gordon is Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. He also is Director of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

A Thinker Who Works Out Philosophical Problems Through Writing

Renowned philosophy professor Lewis Gordon will join the UConn faculty in the summer.