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Weekly Headlines

Students walk along Fairfield Way before 9 a.m. classes.

UConn Soars in Wall Street Journal National College Rankings

Graduation rate, value added to graduates' pay among factors that place UConn at 46 among all American universities Read more.

UConn’s CVMDL Identifies Asian Longhorned Tick Presence in CT

This finding adds to the limited information on the Asian longhorned tick's presence in our state and pathogens it might carry Read more.

Close up of a mushroom with the title 'Mushroom Surfboards' overlaying it

Surf’s Up! Using Mushrooms to Make a More Sustainable Surfboard

Protecting the oceans one mushroom surfboard at a time Read more.

Green combine in corn field during harvest.

Heat Stress to Bring Big Changes to the US Corn Belt

'In the near term, drought-resistant crops are important, but when you look at the long term, we need heat-resistant crops' Read more.

CLAS Connections: Jason Chang and Karen Lau ’25 (CLAS)

Five heartfelt minutes with Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and Professor of History Jason Chang and undergraduate student Karen Lau ’25 (CLAS) Read more.

Schools and Colleges

ED 10 Questions With Rachael Gabriel About Her Book on Disciplinary Literacy

ED Keyokah Mars-Garrick ’22 MA: From the Basketball Court to the Classroom

ENG Dr. Cato T. Laurencin to Receive the Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success from the American Chemical Society

GRAD 40th Annual Biomedical Science Graduate Student Research Day Features Program Alumna

MED Dr. Thomas Agresta is New Chair of Family Medicine at UConn Health

MED Medical Student Studies Brain Network Changes in Epilepsy

PHR Raman Bahal Receives the Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society Young Investigator Award

PHR The School of Pharmacy Welcomes Chat Abeywickrama as Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

UConn in the News

The New York Times

The New Reality for College Dining Halls: Dozens of Dietary Restrictions

Reuters

The Collapse of Insects

Slate

In-N-Out, Weirdly, Is a Climate Change Indicator

WFSB-TV

Former UConn Student Returns as Director of Athletic Bands

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