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UConn Health Center academic building entrance (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health Center Photo)

UConn Health Center Boasts Impressive Incoming Classes

The new medical and dental school students have good grades, high test scores, and a strong Connecticut presence.

UConn Health Center Announces Faculty Promotions

Tenures, promotions and appointments for the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine.

UConn Health Center Firefighters Go Pink

Firefighters Go Pink

The UConn Health Center Fire Department is going pink in the spirit of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Rick Gibbons, professor of psychology on Sept. 28, 2012. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Social Psychologist Rick Gibbons Joins UConn Faculty

Gibbons, coming from Dartmouth, brings expertise in health risk behaviors to the University, and a cohort of more than 3,000 people in a long-running family panel study.

Marc Babineau ('14 CANR) reads of Mice and Men on camera for Banned Books Week readings on Sept.5, 2012. (Max Sinton/UConn Photo)

Reading Banned Books Aloud Makes Strong Statement

The UConn Co-op is holding a virtual read-out in support of the First Amendment.

Aileen Leask

A City Girl in South Africa: Training to Become a Nature Guide

After taking a course in African field ecology, a recent graduate is now learning the art of wilderness survival at a game reserve.

Dr. Jason Ryan and cardiology nurse practitioner Marybeth Barry talk with a patient in the Calhoun Cardiology Center.

Calhoun Cardiology Center Goes for Gold

The American Heart Association has recognized the center’s heart failure program.

Stanley Fish

Freedom with a Capital F: The CLAS Dean Interviews Stanley Fish

Jeremy Teitelbaum and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish discuss practical issues stemming from the idea that faculty should have freedom to teach and research what they want to.

Thousands of Pills, Other Meds, Brought in on Drug Take Back Day

More than 12,000 doses of controlled substances and 500 pounds of non-controlled substances were collected for proper disposal at the UConn Health Center Saturday.

Arnie Dashefsky and Ron Miller have produced a pocket map based on their data on the Jewish population of the U.S.

UConn’s Jewish Data Bank Updates U.S. Population Statistics

The Berman Institute has updated its most recent Jewish population data.