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The Concert Choir sings at the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Together with the Womens Choir and Collegium Musicum, the group spent nine days over Spring Break participating in the American Celebration of Music in Austria and Italy.

UConn Voices Serenade Michelangelo’s Most Famous Painting

The Concert Choir and other UConn music groups spent nine days over Spring Break performing in the American Celebration of Music in Austria and Italy. Read more.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo, presents flowers to former Dodgers President Peter O'Malley (R) after he received The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from Harry H. Horinouchi, consul general of Japan in Los Angeles, as part of Japan Night celebration at Dodger Stadium prior to the start of a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies July 8, 2015 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Babe Ruth in a Kimono: How Baseball Diplomacy has Fortified Japan-US Relations

The sport has been a unifier, bringing together the people of two nations with vastly divergent histories and cultures. Opening Day is Thursday – play ball! Read more.

Tiffany Johnson of Bloomfield holds her son, Quincey, who was born at 25 weeks, weighing one pound 14 ounces. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo)

Brain Awareness: Can Caffeine Save the Tiniest Babies’ Brains?

Two UConn researchers are exploring ways to mitigate the effects of extended development outside the mother's womb on the brains of pre-term babies. Read more.

Linda Pescatella (back center), professor of kinesiology, and Matthew Kostek, graduate assistant in kinesiology, (front left), analyze a student attached to a Biodex machine in a lab in the Kinesiology department.

UConn Expert on National Physical Activity Guidelines Team

Committee members volunteered for the task because of a belief in the impact this report will have on our country’s health as well as internationally for the next 10 years, says UConn's Linda Pescatello. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

MED Improving Pediatric Asthma Care is Possible

PHR Who is Keeping Track of All Those Pills?

ED U.S. News Names Neag School Among Top 20 U.S. Publics for 2019

LAW UConn Law Rises Again in U.S. News Rankings

UConn in the News

New York Times

Dan Hurley Is Hired as UConn Men’s Coach

CNN

76% of sports sponsorships tied to junk food, UConn study says

Newsweek

There’s So Much Plastic in Oceans Scientists Want to Study it from Space