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Sara and Esther
A Hanukkah Miracle of Survival for Mom and Newborn at UConn Health

“The quality of care I got at UConn Health is the reason why I am alive. If I wasn’t treated at UConn Health, I would have died,” says Sara Farber who just named her new daughter on December 18, the first day of Hanukkah. Read more.

From left, 2023-24 American Sign Language (ASL) Community Housing Coordinator Vivian London, 2022-23 ASL Community Housing Coordinator Lauren Gobler and Watson Hall Resident Assistant Teanna Minott have a conversation in ASL outside of Watson Hall—the current home of UConn’s ASL Community Housing.

Signs of the Times: New Housing Option Connects Students through American Sign Language

'It’s just great to expose yourself to more than what the textbook is showing you' Read more.

Developing High School Students into Data Scientists

"Brain Healthy" initiative aims to help high school students interpret data collected through wearable devices to help make healthy choices impacting mental health Read more.

A young pig about to receive an injection. (iStock Photo)

UConn Collaborates With USDA To Develop African Swine Fever Vaccine Candidate Licensed by Zoetis

One of the world’s largest animal health companies non-exclusively licensed the USDA and UConn’s jointly owned vaccine candidate for African swine fever, a lethal disease in pigs Read more.

A photo from 1947 showing four men standing in front of a sapling tree, a "grandson" of the fabled Charter Oak.

UConn Library’s Connecticut Digital Archive Receives Connecticut Humanities Partnership Grant to Build Local Histories

'My Town, My Story' will help CT public libraries build digital collections of local history and memory Read more.

UCONN MAGAZINE

Making Money

Wondering how to get started with stock-market investing? Motley Fool writer Brian Feroldi '04 (BUS) has you covered. Read more.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

ED

Feel Your Best Self Collaborative Project Nominated for Kidscreen Award

OVPR

UConn Center on Aging to Transform our Understanding of Cellular Senescence in Human Aging with NIH-Funded Tissue Mapping Center Discoveries

MED

A Gift of Lasers

UCONN IN THE NEWS

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New UConn President Is Fueling a Leap Into a Clean-Energy Future

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Connecticut’s Winter COVID-19 Spike Has Officially Arrived

NBC Connecticut

STEM Field Job Growth Expected to Outpace Others

The Middletown Press

Beloved Football Coach, 40-Year Middlesex Chamber President Larry McHugh Retires

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