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Nora Berrah, professor of physics, has been named a Fellow of the AAAS. (Photo courtesy of Nora Berrah)

Two UConn Faculty Named AAAS Fellows

The two women, physics researcher Nora Berrah and dental researcher Susan Reisine, are being honored by the world’s largest general scientific society for their distinguished contributions to their respective fields. Read more.

MRI service manager Elisa Medeiros prepares a patient for functional MRI testing at the BIRC in the Phillips Communication Sciences Building. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Health Patients Can Now Get MRIs at UConn in Storrs

Thanks to a collaboration between UConn Health physicians and UConn researchers, sophisticated MRI scanning equipment originally purchased for research use will now be used for diagnosing patients of UConn Health in Storrs. Read more.

In Mexicali, Mexico, a migrant uses his cellphone. (Photo by Luis Boza/VIEWPress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Op-ed: Mexico Wants Internet for All. That Could Reduce Poverty

The roughly 50 million people who remain offline are also generally the country’s poorest residents, writes Jack J. Barry of UConn political science. Read more.

Ryan Kim '19 (CLAS) in JOUR 4016: Publication Practice, taught by Marie Shanahan, associate professor of journalism, on Nov. 1, 2018. (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo

The ‘Roundup’ of Connecticut News

A newsletter course in the journalism department offers students real-life experience in digital journalism and marketing. Read more.

(UConn Photo/Jakob Lopez)

Holiday Sing at the Hartford Campus

The Hartford community came together for an old-fashioned 'Back to the Times' carol sing on the steps of UConn's downtown campus. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

ENG Senior Design Journey 2019: Reimagining Wheelchair Design, Part 1

CLAS ‘Virus Hunters’ Get Hands Dirty in UConn Class

LAW Ignite Crowdfunding Campaign Supports Student Groups

OVPR Getting to the Root (Canal) of Dentin Regeneration

MED UConn Med Students First to Learn with New Handheld Ultrasound

OVPR UConn-Wesleyan Stem Cell Core: Past, Present, and Future

BUS CIBER Case Challenge Draws from U.S., Italy and South Africa

UConn in the News

National Geographic

UConn’s Wallace on Remote Tribe and American Missionary

Fast Company

Police Turn to Robotics to Tackle Backlog of Untested Rape Kits

Popular Science

What the New Climate Report Says About Where You Live

National Public Radio

Same-Race Teachers Have Big Effect On Black Children

Pacific Standard magazine

The Boundary Between our Bodies and our Tech

CNBC

The Education of Gen Z Girls and Women Lacks a Key Lesson

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