External Media Mentions

Media coverage of the people and programs at UConn. As a vibrant, progressive leader among public research universities, UConn fosters a diverse and dynamic culture that meets the challenges of a changing global society.

December 2017

  • December 14, 2017
    CNN

    5 Years After Sandy Hook, the Victims Have Not Been Forgotten

  • December 14, 2017
    Phys.org

    The impact of naming winter storms

  • December 13, 2017
    Health News Digest

    Some Nursing Homes are Inflating Their Medicare Ratings

  • December 13, 2017
    Foreign Policy

    Why is Lloyd’s of London Insuring American Guns?

  • December 13, 2017
    Bloomberg News

    Economics Isn’t ‘Astrology for Dudes’

  • December 13, 2017
    Science Codex

    Put the cookie down! New app to intervene in overeating

  • December 13, 2017
    Hawaii News Now

    Researchers Create App to Predict, Intervene in Overeating

  • December 13, 2017
    San Antonio Express-News

    Journal aims for health care breakthrough

  • December 12, 2017
    Newsweek

    Breakthrough Huntington’s Drug Hits Devastating Brain Condition at its Root

  • December 12, 2017
    National Public Radio

    Low Birth Rate Hurting Connecticut Population Growth

  • December 12, 2017
    Associated Press

    An anthropologist explains why we love holiday rituals and traditions

  • December 12, 2017
    Phys.org

    An anthropologist explains why we love holiday rituals and traditions

  • December 12, 2017
    Phys.org

    Scientists engineer nanoscale pillars to act like memory foam

  • December 11, 2017
    Women's Health magazine

    Why Sweating Is So Freaking Good For You

  • December 11, 2017
    Education Week

    Policymakers Need to Know There Are No ‘Easy Fixes’ in Education

  • December 11, 2017
    NASDAQ

    More Marijuana Stock Deal-Making Is on the Way for This 1 Simple Reason

  • December 11, 2017
    Washington Post

    Trump’s rhetoric on Jerusalem

  • December 11, 2017
    Chronicle of Philanthropy

    Gifts Roundup

  • December 11, 2017
    NCAA

    Geno Auriemma, Chris Dailey on the verge of win No. 1,000

  • December 8, 2017
    Washington Post

    Marijuana taking a bite out of alcohol sales

  • December 8, 2017
    Marketwatch

    A glimpse at Silicon Valley’s cryptocurrency craze

  • December 8, 2017
    Science Newsline

    Number of Genetic Markers Linked to Lifespan Triples

  • December 8, 2017
    USA Today

    UConn medical consultant on Ryan Shazier injury: ‘He may not play football again’

  • December 7, 2017
    Sports Illustrated

    UConn Neurologist Who Consults With NFLPA on Steelers’ Ryan Shazier

  • December 7, 2017
    Mother Jones

    California Songbirds Have Figured Out a Way to Outsmart Climate Change

  • December 6, 2017
    New York Times

    For UConn’s Azura Stevens, Transfer Brings Trial by Fire

  • December 6, 2017
    Business Insider

    UConn Professor Honored for Prosthodontic Humanitarian Efforts

  • December 6, 2017
    Washington Post

    Food-makers are taking salt and sugar out of food but adding fat

  • December 6, 2017
    San Francisco Chronicle

    Alcohol sales decreasing in legal marijuana states, study finds

  • December 6, 2017
    Science Daily

    Blood pressure declines 14 to 18 years before death

  • December 6, 2017
    National Public Radio

    New Haven Long Wharf Development Enters Planning Stage

  • December 6, 2017
    Psych Central

    CBT Can Help Binge Eaters Lose Weight

  • December 6, 2017
    Sports Illustrated

    Maya Moore Is the Greatest Winner in History of Women’s BBall

  • December 4, 2017
    New York Times

    Graduate Students Argue Against Taxing Tuition Waivers

  • December 4, 2017
    Christian Science Monitor

    Forest gumption: Scientists Trying Everything to Stem Global Warming

  • December 1, 2017
    Washington Post

    Trump’s attacks on #TakeaKnee and DACA spurred hundreds of protests

  • December 1, 2017
    The Nation

    Protesters Against Police Violence Risk the Very Thing They’re Fighting

  • December 1, 2017
    Science Newsline

    New Document Guides Hospitals in Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

  • December 1, 2017
    Infection Control Today

    New Document Guides Hospitals in Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

  • December 1, 2017
    Sports Illustrated

    Minnesota Lynx Star Maya Moore Wins Sports Illustrated’s Performer of the Year Award

November 2017

  • November 30, 2017
    Chicago Tribune

    How a theater group reinvented sexual assault prevention

  • November 30, 2017
    National Public Radio

    UConn Gets New Tools To Map The Long Island Sound

  • November 29, 2017
    The Atlantic

    It Took Almost 180 Years to Figure Out the Incredible Way Hummingbirds Drink

  • November 29, 2017
    New York Times

    President Wins Round in the Battle for the Consumer Bureau

  • November 29, 2017
    Capital News Service

    Policies that protect high school athletes under scrutiny

  • November 28, 2017
    Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

    Scholar Develops Software to Search the Dark Web for Hate Group Manifestos

  • November 28, 2017
    New York Times

    A Healthy Dose of Guilt

  • November 28, 2017
    National Public Radio

    To Predict Storm Power Outages, Build Better Models

  • November 28, 2017
    National Public Radio

    ‘Mascots!’ Exhibit Asks Why We Care About These Costumed Sports Characters

  • November 28, 2017
    Washington Post

    The new ‘Star Trek’ has gotten darker and more pessimistic — just like our politics