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Hritckos Give $5 Million to Support School of Pharmacy, Students  

The gift will support the University’s campaign to put students first and support academic and innovation excellence Read more.

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UConn Once Again Ranks High in Sustainability

Campus engagement and planning efforts give UConn a sustainable edge Read more.

Seedlings that are part of a water qaulity experiment conducted by plant science professor Rosa Raudales on June 16, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

New Plant and Soil Health Center Named in Honor of Alum George Leigh Minor

George Leigh Minor ’56 (CAHNR) passed away at the age of 90 in January 2025, leaving a generous donation, which will be used to fund the renovations necessary to open the George Leigh Minor Plant and Soil Health Center. Read more.

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UConn Student Spends Summer in Turkey As Part of CLS Program

The Critical Language Scholarship program provides summer programs for students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States Read more.

A young person with pink hair, wearing a pink blazer, smiles as she gestures to a poster behind her. Another student smiles at her.

UConn Reaches Records for Tech Licensing, Startup Growth

Despite an unpredictable landscape, tech entrepreneurship is thriving. Read more.

A woman with long blonde hair and a hat and headphones sitting on a blanket in the sand looking out to the ocean

Getting Cozy: UConn Entrepreneur Focuses on Mindful Productivity as Werth Institute Program Continues Engaging First-Year Women

'Take every opportunity you’re given and just make sure that you’re loving what you’re doing, that you want to be here, that you want to learn' Read more.

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Targeting a Silent Killer: UConn Researcher Patents Leptospirosis Vaccine

This patent moves researchers one step closer to developing a universal vaccine for leptospirosis, a widely neglected disease Read more.

UCONN MAGAZINE

The Road to Twelve

A five-year arc that began in a bubble and ended with the Huskies once again hoisting the ultimate NCAA bauble was riddled with bad luck and injuries — and records and triumphs. Read more.

UCONN IN THE NEWS

The New York Times

Cue the Sun: This Lab Recreates Hot, Sweaty Days to Test Humans

Reuters

MrBeast Chocolate Ads Were Misleading, US Children’s Watchdog Group Says

BBC World Service

Two Decades On, a Look Back at Hurricane Katrina

Smithsonian Magazine

Could These 80,000-Year-Old Stones Be the World’s Earliest Known Arrowheads?

Earth.com

Gray Seals Have a Mysterious Resilience to Influenza Virus

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