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Ryan Cortier, a recent engineering grad, left, and Sophie MacDonald ’20 (ENG) promote the concept of a new club, where students could bring anything from furniture to iPhones and learn to fix it themselves. The new club would be called the UConn Repair Café. (Lucas Voghell ’20 (CLAS)/UConn Photo)

Focus on Sustainability: UConn’s Spring Fling

The Spring Fling festival on Fairfield Way featured organic and local food, eco-friendly vendors, green companies, and student groups in a celebration of sustainability.

April 17, 2019 | Lucas Voghell '20 (CLAS)

Angeline Nunez, left, and Tiffany Nguyen from Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford were among the nearly 240 8th-grade girls from middle schools around the state who came to campus Wednesday for a one-day conference aimed at exposing them to female role models in the STEM fields. (Christopher LaRosa/UConn Photo)

Multiplying Their Options

Nearly 240 8th-grade girls from middle schools around the state came to campus Wednesday for a one-day conference aimed at exposing them to female role models in the STEM fields.

April 5, 2019 | Christopher LaRosa

Community Impact
Devonte Daley, left, and Keenon Christian from Jumoke Academy in Hartford learn about Newton’s Laws of Motion by building and testing a balloon-powered rocket car from simple materials. (Christopher LaRosa/UConn Photo)

Engineering Their Future

More than 200 8th grade boys from underrepresented backgrounds attended an event on campus April 1 to learn about key concepts and techniques in science and engineering.

April 2, 2019 | Christopher LaRosa

Community Impact UConn Voices
'Life changing' is how the families of kids with serious, chronic illnesses describe their experiences with UConn athletic teams through a program known as Team IMPACT. (Jason Reider/UConn Athletic Marketing Photo)

Team IMPACT: A Winning Way to Heal

'Life changing' is how the families of kids with serious and chronic illnesses describe their experiences with UConn athletic teams through a program known as Team IMPACT.

March 21, 2019 | Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu

Athletics Community Impact
Amanda Moreau ’13 RN and Chad Eichman ’16 RN in the Emergency Department of UConn Health on March 6, 2019. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Life Work: Training to be a Nurse

Student nursing opportunities at UConn Health provide undergraduates in the field a chance to transfer knowledge from theory to practice.

March 20, 2019 | Sean Flynn

Community Impact UConn Health
Erosion along the banks of Wamassee Creek on St. Catherines Island caused a tree to fall in 2013, exposing a burial ground from the period just before and just after European contact. Intensive excavations followed to recover and protect burials threatened by erosion. Following consultation with appropriate Indigenous representatives, the St. Catherines Island Foundation partnered with multiple research groups to explore the archaeology, bioarchaeology, ancient DNA, stable isotopes, geophysics, radiocarbon dating, geoarchaeology, and ancient proteomics at the Fallen Tree site. Photo by Caitria O’Shaughnessy.

Snapshot: Deborah Bolnick, St. Catherines Island

A glimpse into a UConn research project located off the coast of Georgia, on an island inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

March 18, 2019 | Elaina Hancock

Research & Discovery
Ashley Jacques '20 (BUS), right, in Ireland, with a friend in the program, Isabelle Lee from Fordham University. (Submitted Photo)

Education Abroad: Ashley Jacques ’20, Dublin, Ireland

'I am now kicking myself that I did not do a full semester,' says Ashley Jacques '20 (BUS), as she recalls the summer she spent with an Education Abroad program in Ireland last year.

March 13, 2019 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Vishal Cherian ’19 (ENG) writes some of his ideas on the pieces of paper posted along the wall. (Lucas Voghell ’20 (CLAS)/UConn Photo)

Innovating Wellness: HackUConn 2019

UConn student innovators and creators put their heads together to devise new approaches to health care issues at a 24-hour event this past weekend.

March 11, 2019 | Lucas Voghell '20 (CLAS)

Lisa Darminova, left, and Angela Villella, center, both of UConn, and Ellen Zhang of UC Irvine wander through the cherry blossoms in Hong Kong. (Submitted Photo)

Education Abroad: Lisa Darminova ’19, Hong Kong

'There are so many different people in Hong Kong. There is a big international community, so it’s easy to make friends,' says Lisa Darminova '19 (CLAS).

March 7, 2019 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Community Impact University News

Parkland Shooting Survivor David Hogg Speaks at UConn

David Hogg, who survived the 2018 Parkland School shooting, discussed gun violence and youth activism as part of this spring's Metanoia.

March 5, 2019 | Photos by Sean Flynn