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Daily HeadlinesApril 29, 2019

Clockwise from top left: Vanessa Bryant, the first African American federal judge in New England; Linda Kelly, the first woman and the first African American to serve as president of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; Ellen Ash Peters, the first female chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court; Caroline Lillard, founder of the law school and administrator and librarian in its early years.

The Face of the Law School Now

Four new portraits have been added to the stately Reading Room at UConn Law to reflect the school's gender and racial diversity that had long gone unrepresented. Read more.

At right, Vanessa Rosa ’19 (CLAS) and April play Connect Four in Sprague Residence Hall. Vanessa and April are part of the Best Buddies/STAAR program where undergraduate students are mentors to young adults with developmental disabilities. April 26, 2019. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

STAAR: The Unique Class in the Basement of UConn’s Sprague Hall

'We benefit just as much from this interaction ... as the S.T.A.A.R. students do,' says Inge-Marie Eigsti of UConn's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

DENT Dental students fill need, and cavities, on service trips to Puerto Rico

OVPR Investigating the Genetic Linchpin of Lynch Syndrome

UConn in the News

Newsweek

Baby Dolphin Stranded on Florida Beach had ‘Stomach Full’ of Plastic Trash

KPC News

‘Punishing Poverty’: Is Indiana’s Child Welfare System Stacked Against the Poor?

NBC News

Denver Public Schools Outlines Student Handcuff Policies

Phys.org

Study: Some Bacteria Travel an Alternate Path to Antibiotic Resistance

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