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Ice-cream from the UConn Dairy Bar on April 28, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn Dairy Bar to Start Offering Online Ordering for Ice Cream Pickup

The UConn Dairy Bar is reopening for online orders and curbside pickup. Read more.

Young scientist discussing with colleague. Female researcher is sharing her ideas during meeting. They are wearing uniforms in laboratory.

UConn Dental Faculty Address Need for More Diverse Dental Workforce

Faculty at the UConn School of Dental Medicine are launching a program to build a more diverse workforce across multiple fields. Read more.

Rudd Center: Beverage Companies Spent More than $1 Billion in Advertising for Sugary Drinks and Energy Drinks in 2018

Beverage companies continue to disproportionately target Black and Hispanic youth with TV ads for soda, sports drinks and other sugary drinks, according to UConn's Rudd Center. Read more.

PGA Honoring UConn Health Care Workers

Ten UConn Health workers have been chosen to be honored at the Travelers Championship for work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more.

UConn Announces Changes To Division of Athletics

The UConn Division of Athletics announced on Wednesday that it will reduce the number of sports it sponsors by four, effective at the conclusion of the 2020-21 academic year. Affected programs are men’s cross country, women’s rowing, men’s swimming and diving and men’s tennis. Read more.

UConn Professor Successfully Demonstrates Delivery of Microscopic Powerhouses to Liver in Animals

A groundbreaking experiment by a UConn researcher marks the first time mitochondria have ever been successfully introduced into specific cells in living animals. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CAHNR Meet graduate student Mia Kawaida

CAHNR Allied Health Sciences completes departmental review, launches 4-year major at Waterbury Campus

CLAS Atomwise Partnership Enables UConn Researcher to Investigate COVID-19 Drug Target

NUR Bringing COVID-19 Testing to the Community

NUR Nursing Faculty Member Receives First Year Experience Program’s Teaching Innovation Award

SSW Meet New Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Joanne Corbin

UConn in the News

The Washington Post

13 Books on the History of Black America for Those Who Really Want to Learn

NPR

Should Statues Of Historic Figures With Complicated Pasts Be Taken Down?