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Student conducting chemistry experiment in lab

High School Students Get Hands on Experience at UConn Chemistry Early College Experience Day

Students from eight high schools participated in the day-long event, performing a photoswitching chemistry experiment Read more.

Aerial image of the University of Connecticut during Fall 2023.

Ten Students Earn Awards From Gilman Foundation

Each Gilman Scholar is required to complete a service project upon their return from studying abroad in their campus or home community Read more.

Three executives from Insurity on stage, presenting at a leadership conference.

Meeting the Team: Insurity Offers Unfettered Access to C-Suite

Leadership series allowed students to ask probing questions, gain behind-the-scenes knowledge Read more.

Faculty, staff, and students from UConn's Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC) visited engineers at Aero Gear, Inc. on May 29 to discuss their ongoing collaboration. CMSC offers small Connecticut manufacturing businesses with free technical support and specialized machining processes and simulations.

Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center Offers Technical Advising to Small Businesses

CMSC promotes innovation and economic development through modeling and simulation work while teaching the next-generation workforce advanced computing and simulation skills Read more.

A gloved hand holds a test tub marked with the characters H5N1, for avian flu, in front of a rooster.

Early Take on Bird Flu

While we learn more, UConn Health’s Dr. David Banach considers general public health risk low, for now Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CAHNR Game On: UConn 4-H Introduces Youth to Biotechnology

CAHNR Food Microbiologist Shares Long-Brewing Passion for Making Craft Beer

ENG Discovering and Developing Hidden Engineering Talent

ED 25 Years as Neag: Neag School Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Naming of the School

ED UConn’s Renzulli Center Hosts Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development

MED Pride Celebrated at UConn Health

MED Dr. George Kuchel to Serve on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee

UConn in the News

Forbes

How An Instagrammer Created A Full-Time Career As A Book Influencer

Time Magazine

Here’s Exactly What to Do If You Find a Tick On You

The Hartford Courant

Invasive Plants Hurt the Connecticut Ecosystem in Many Ways. See Why We Need to Get Rid of Them.

Amazing Tales

The Inside Story Behind New England’s Stone Walls

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