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UConn Hartford Receives $500,000 from The Hartford to Support Student Housing Scholarships

'This investment in our students is also an investment in Hartford’s future' Read more.

A woman gasps at her computer screen.

A ‘Blueprint for Mass Cybercrime’

New data breach, affecting 16 billion passwords and usernames, is an expansive threat for both individuals and institutions Read more.

Two scientists looking at a tray of specimens

Science in Seconds: Eating Away at Disease

UConn Health researchers are studying how phagocytes feel, taste, digest and respond to eating and clearing away debris or foreign particles inside the body Read more.

Morris Sarna and Judy Sarna

Gift Brings UConn’s Immersive Holocaust and Bias Awareness Program to High School Students

The gift from Judy Sarna and her late husband, Morris, is the largest gift from a single, private donor that the Neag School of Education has received in the past 25 years Read more.

Thanh Nguyen, associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, and his team of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

Nguyen’s Injectable Piezoelectric Gel Could Treat Osteoarthritis without Surgery

Backed by a $2.3M grant from the NIH and NIH/NIBIB, Thanh Nguyen will stimulate cartilage regeneration in large animal models Read more.

UCONN MAGAZINE

The Ace

We all have this UConn Trustee and All-American Husky hammer thrower to thank for giving Connecticut its Travelers Championship. Read more.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Athletic Trainer Employment in High Schools Associated with Fewer Fatalities and Injuries

Scorecard for Safer Play: Athletic Field Assessment Form Updated for Mobile Use

A Vibrant Partnership: UConn Husky Nutrition & Sport and Hartford Public Schools Support Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Over 20 Years

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Three Faculty Members Named Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors

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Deborah’s Story of Cancer, Faith, Determination and Survival

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Next President of Society of Clinical Psychology is from UConn

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School of Nursing Class of 2029 Student Profiles: Shaunty Mae Vidad and Carlin Sabo

UCONN IN THE NEWS

The Boston Globe

A Professional Puppeteer Builds a World With its Own Set of Rules

The Washington Post

3 Ways to Protect Your Mind and Body When the Heat Rises

Infectious Disease Special Edition

Judge Orders Canceled NIH Grants Restored

NBC Connecticut

UConn Lab Getting Expansion to Study Impacts of Heat, Other Conditions

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