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Nurse receiving the COVID-19 vaccination

Historic Turn in Pandemic with First Vaccinations at UConn Health

UConn Health received its first shipment of nearly 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer, just FDA-approved for emergency use authorization. Read more.
Dr. David Banach gets vaccinated for COVID-19 by staff nurse Jennifer Pickert on December 15, 2020.

UConn Health’s Dr. David Banach Explains the COVID-19 Vaccine

UConn Health's Dr. David Banach talks about the COVID-19 vaccine - what it does, what to expect when getting it, and what might come next. Read more.

UConn School of Pharmacy Joins State of Connecticut in COVID Immunization and Contact Tracing

The UConn School of Pharmacy is assisting the state's COVID-19 vaccine strategy in a variety of ways. Read more.
An influenza vaccine needle next to band-aids and cotton balls.

UConn Researcher Testing How to Persuade People to Take a COVID-19 Vaccine

UConn's Natalie Shook is researching what could be one of the most crucial public health questions in years - how to convince people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Read more.
a testing site

Hawley Armory, Named For a Military Typhoid Fever Victim, Now Home To COVID-19 Testing

Hawley Armory's newest use as a site for on-campus employee COVID-19 testing brings the history of the building back full circle to its namesake -- Willis N. Hawley. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

ED Neag School Launches American Sign Language Education Program

ED Neag School Mourns Loss of Faculty Emeritus, Donor Vincent Rogers

ED Neag School Selected to Join National Holmes Scholars Program

ED Amid COVID, Schools Can Help Families of Children With Disabilities

CAHNR Natural Resources and the Environment launches graduate certificate in remote sensing and geospatial data analytics

MED UConn Health Minute: Help for Holiday Blues

MED UConn Medical Students Find Novel Way to Resolve National COVID-19 Educational Disparities

MED Women’s Center APRNs Increase Access to Care

UConn in the News

NBC Today Show

UConn Basketball Team Fights Food Insecurity

The Atlantic

The Lost Year

The New York Times

America, We Have a Problem

Bloomberg Tax

States Eye Amazon, Facebook, Google for Untapped Digital Ad Tax

The Conversation

COVID-19 Means a Lot More Work for Families of Children With Disabilities, but Schools Can Help

Fox 61

UConn Doctor Discusses COVID-19 Vaccine After Receiving It

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