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Students at the 2021 commencement ceremony donning green first-generation cords

First-Generation Students Now Have Special Commencement Tradition

Green cords symbolize overcoming the distinctive challenges faced by students who are the first in their families to pursue higher education Read more.
An aerial view of the Wilbur Cross Building.

UConn Students Completing Their Degrees At Fastest Rate Among All Peer Institutions

UConn students receive their undergraduate degrees in 4.1 years on average Read more.
Husband and wife wearing scrubs and masks.

Husband and Wife Nurses to Walk the School of Nursing Commencement Stage Together

Jill Alsgaard '20 MS and Trung Le '13 (NUR) met while working at UConn Health and are both graduating from the School's master's program Read more.

I’ll Take Mihir Nene ’20 for $27,000, Ken

Years of trivia nights at Ted's paid off for a UConn Engineering alum who lived out his dream of becoming a Jeopardy! champion Read more.
An artist's rendering of a lunar module in action.

UConn Student Team Aims for the Moon with Lunar Rover Design

An interdisciplinary team of UConn undergraduates are finalists in the NASA Big Idea Challenge Read more.
Exterior of the Hartford Times Building campus

School of Public Policy Forms at UConn Hartford

Formerly the Department of Public Policy, the School is dedicated to preparing students for public leadership positions and producing applied research that solves societal problems. Read more.

UConn in the News

Philadelphia Magazine

Doug Glanville Speaks His Mind on Baseball and Its Future

National Geographic

The Future of Forests

The New York Times

‘This Is American History’: The Hall of Fame Reconsiders Race

Science

Astronomers Find a New Way to Detect Gravitational Waves

The New York Times

Two Years Into the Pandemic, ‘Little Treats’ Are Helping People Cope with Big Existential Problems.

The Hartford Courant

UConn Law honors John Brittain, Original Sheff Lawyer, 33 Years After School Desegregation Suit Was Filed

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