WEEKLY HEADLINES

HuskyTHON participants holding up cards with the total dollar amount raised during this year's dance marathon

HuskyTHON Raises Over $1.3 Million For The Kids

The annual dance marathon raised $1,340,670.68 for Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Read more.

Students brainstorming at the last HackUConn held in person, in 2019.

Return of the Hack: In-Person HackUConn is Back, with Focus on Well-Being

For the first time since 2019, the 20-hour creative sprint is once again being held in person 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.

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.

Alma Jeri-Wahrhaftig Explores Importance of Culture-Health Connections

After graduating, UConn senior Alma Jeri-Wahrhaftig hopes to use cultural compassion to prevent and treat disease Read more.

UCONN MAGAZINE

So Handsome

When LaShawnda Phillips (RHSA '20, CAHNR '22) first moved to her neighborhood in Hartford at age 13, she set out to do some exploring. She found horses. Read more.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

CLAS

UConn Broadcaster Pushes for Change in the Press Box

Neag School Plans for On-Campus 2022 Commencement

Neag School Graduate Students Launch Education Research Journal

OVPR

Behind the Degree: Nursing Ph.D. Student Aims to Expose Health Care Inequities Within the Correctional System

NUR

Carol Polifroni and Thomas Long to Retire from UConn School of Nursing

PHR

Amy Antipas to Speak at UConn Pharmacy BS Commencement 2022

PHR

Commissioner Deidre Gifford to Speak at UConn Pharmacy Pharm.D. Commencement

PHR

Christina Polomoff Running for ASCP Director-at-Large

DENT

Dental Faculty Recognized Internationally for Work in Oral Medicine and Oncology

DENT

Podcast: Supplying CT’s Health Care Workforce

UCONN IN THE NEWS

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

WBUR Radio

Navigating Lyme Disease This Spring

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists Can Help Address Consumer Misconceptions About OTC Products

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