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Thank You, UConn

Unprecedented challenges call for unprecedented perseverance, and in the Fall of 2020, that’s what characterized UConn Nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more.

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Students Partner With Older Adults to Combat Pandemic Isolation

UConn School of Social work students are connecting with older adults in Hartford and the surrounding area to help combat that isolation as part of a new research project known as SLIP: the Social isolation/Loneliness Intergenerational Project. Read more.

UConn School of Business Receives First-Ever Top 30 Ranking for Graduate Entrepreneurship from Princeton Review

UConn's growing culture of entrepreneurship has been recognized in new rankings by the Princeton Review. Read more.

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For Some Older Adults, a Pandemic of Loneliness

Dr. David C. Steffens, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UConn School of Medicine, offers insight and advice on older adults facing the prospect of a lonely, pandemic-marred holiday season. Read more.

Q&A: The Magic of University Entrepreneurship

Abhijit (Jit) Banerjee, UConn's new AVP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, talks about the University's strengths in these areas, and the ways it can become even more successful. Read more.

Journaling Project Makes The Pandemic Personal

All types of people have kept journals and diaries for years. Unfortunately, most of them get lost in history, unless fame and fortune come the writer’s way. The Pandemic Journaling Project is designed to make sure that does not happen to people's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CLAS UConn Researcher Investigates Promising Candidate for Mitochondrial Disease Treatment

OVPR Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Reveals Potential for New Therapies

OVPR Support for the Palmer Fellowship Impacts Pharmacy Practice Nationally

CAHNR Meet undergraduate student Anna Welch

CAHNR Microbiologist develops improved technology for poultry food safety

ED Finding Joy Through the Holiday Season

MED UConn Health Employees Honored as 2020 HealthCare Heroes by Hartford Business Journal

MED Great American Smokeout is November 19, 2020

MED UConn Health Minute: Understanding Brain Tumors

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