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A sign on the ground saying "Black Lives Matter," surrounded by flowers and candles.

Op-Ed: How Studying Racism Helped Us Become Anti-Racist Activists

Twelve students collaborated on an op-ed piece explaining how their coursework prepared them to respond to the police brutality that sparked protests around the world this summer. Read more.

Researchers Les Loew, left, and Pedro Mendes outside the Cell and Genome building at UConn Health in Farmington on July 13, 2020.

NIH Awards $6M to UConn Health Biological Computer Modeling Teams

Two computer modeling teams at UConn Health have been awarded an NIH grant totaling $6 million over five years. Read more.

Woman in flip flops standing on a stone in a koi pond at Tirta Gangga, Bali, Indonesia.

“Koi People,” Quantitative Analysis, and Quarantine

A summer project gave UConn students an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, innovation - and carp. Read more.

‘Longshot Lenny’ Finds Hope at UConn Health: ‘I Didn’t Want to Die’

He was told he had less than six months to live, and he should get his affairs in order. But Lenny Lewis wasn’t ready to give up, and neither was his team of UConn Health providers. Read more.

Illustration of RNA polymerase II in action in yeast. RNA (ribonucleic acid) polymerase II (orange) functions in the nucleus in the process of transcription. It unwinds the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) double helix (violet), and uses its nucleotide sequence as a template to produce a strand of complementary messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA, red). RNA polymerase II recognises a start sign on the DNA strand and then moves along the strand building the mRNA until it reaches a termination signal. This single-stranded mRNA will subsequently be translated in the cytoplasm to produce a particular protein.

Massive Project to Understand Our Genes Reveals Secrets of RNA

A UConn Health lab spent five years studying human proteins as part of a massive, ongoing collaboration to identify what, exactly, every single bit of DNA and RNA in the human genome does. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CLAS Meet Evelyn Tribble: Shakespeare Fanatic, Hammer Thrower, and New CLAS Associate Dean for Humanities and Undergraduate Affairs

CLAS CLAS Undergraduates Learn to Do Research From Home

LAW John Lewis’ 2012 Commencement Address at UConn School of Law

MED Ventilators and N95 Masks Donated to UConn Health by the Fosun Foundation

MED Neuro-Oncologist Thrives on Constant Improvement

MED New Gynecologic Oncologist Complements Experienced Team

MED Multidisciplinary, Compassionate Care for MS Patients

MED Dr. Mae Jemison to Receive the 2020 Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D. Lifetime Research Achievement Award

MED UConn Health Minute: Teledermatology

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