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WEEKLY HEADLINES

Three colorful puppet characters stand against a blue background, each with distinct hair, skin tones, and outfits expressing different emotions.

How to Feel Your Best Self

The kids — too many of them — are not all right Read more.

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Getting Cozy: UConn Entrepreneur Focuses on Mindful Productivity as Werth Institute Program Continues Engaging First-Year Women

'Take every opportunity you’re given and just make sure that you’re loving what you’re doing, that you want to be here, that you want to learn' Read more.

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Randy Walikonis Encourages UConn Students to Push Boundaries of Knowledge

As UConn's biology majors continue to grow, the new head of the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology aims to expand hands-on opportunities while preparing students for research and medical careers Read more.

Wellness Concept. Wooden blocks with the eight dimensions; emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, environmental, physical, occupational, financial. A holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

UConn’s Popular Emotional Well-Being Course Now Free and Available to the Public

UConn faculty and students launch online resource to make emotional well-being content accessible to all Read more.

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UConn to Host Inaugural Tech Showcase

The Sept. 18 event will bring together the state’s leading innovators and offer elite opportunities for startups and students Read more.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

NUR

CT AHEC—Connecting the Classroom with the Community

Mariah Klair Castillo ’24 MA: Finding a Voice as a Special Education Teacher

Meet the Neag School’s 2025-26 Alumni Board

LAW

UConn Law Welcomes One of Its Most Accomplished Incoming Classes

MED

UConn’s Continuing Medical Education Earns Reaccreditation

MED

JUMP Outreach Program of The Cato T. Laurencin Institute at UConn: Teaching Hartford Students About Healthy Eating

OVPR

42nd Annual Biomedical Science Graduate Student Research Day

OVPR

Building Recovery Through Housing: SSW Awarded $1.6M to Evaluate Statewide HERO Program

SSW

CCERC Grant Supports SSW Study on Standards for School Social Workers

SSW

SSW Research Faculty Support Mental Health, Addiction Services Statewide

SSW

SSW Student Explores Compassionate Decision-Making Approaches for Families with Critically Ill Children

UCONN IN THE NEWS

The New York Times

Cue the Sun: This Lab Recreates Hot, Sweaty Days to Test Humans

The Wall Street Journal

Black Americans Are Losing Jobs in a Warning for the Economy

BBC World Service

Two Decades On, a Look Back at Hurricane Katrina

Whole Foods Magazine

FDA is Right to Restrict 7-Hydroxymitragynine Products

Hartford Courant

Heart Disease Is a Leading Cause of Death in Connecticut. A UConn Doctor’s Work With DNA Seeks to Change It.

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