School of Dental Medicine

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Expanding Access to Pediatric Dental Care

Partnership between UConn and Brooker Memorial benefits patients, dental residents

Dr. Dante Paolino and Dr. Zachary Gelber, in blue medical scrubs, each holding a Build-a-Brush toothbrush.

UConn Dentist Develops Customizable Toothbrush to Encourage Kids to Brush Better, Longer

'What was a little hobby is now a full-fledged business'

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School of Dental Medicine Achieves Record Research Funding

The School received its highest ever amount of new research funding in FY26, totaling $17.75 million

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Lessons from Liberia

Two second-year UConn dental students reflect on their work in Liberia over the summer

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School of Dental Medicine Announces Faculty Promotions

Three faculty members received promotions

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UConn Dental School Researchers Win Award from U.S. Military For Traumatic Wound Healing Technology

Researchers advancing combat casualty care with multifunctional biomaterial platform

Student Poster

Summer Research Experiences Give Students Career-Building Boost

Posters and presentations at 2026 Summer Research Day highlight impact of mentored, hands-on student experiences at UConn Health.

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UConn Welcomes 52 New Future Dentists

The Class of 2030 received their white coats

National Area Health Education Center Organization (NAO) leaders in Washington, DC

A Day on Capitol Hill for CT AHEC

CT AHEC joined colleagues in Washington, D.C. from across the U.S. to educate state, regional, and national representatives.

Six moments of a melting snowflake, captured with a lensless chip on a nanometer-scale.

Christmas in July: UConn Engineers Capture Gigapixel 3D Video of Snowflakes

Instead of treating movement over time as a limitation, the system uses those changes to show more detail than a conventional camera could, opening up new possibilities for studying cells, and (even in the summer) snowflakes