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Daily HeadlinesJanuary 14, 2019

Senior brother tending to boy in hospital bed, Commenting on a recently published report by the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health, its director says addressing health equity is not just a matter of social justice but, for Connecticut, may be a matter of economic survival. Among other statistics, the report notes that 11 percent of black boys report being threatened with a weapon at school in the past year, compared with less than 8 percent of Hispanic and white boys. (Getty Images)

Health Disparities Damage Men and Boys of Color and CT’s Economy

Commenting on a recently published report by the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health, its director says addressing health equity is not just a matter of social justice but, for Connecticut, may be a matter of economic survival. Read more.

A portrait of Charles Lewis Beach, president of Connecticut Agricultural College from 1908 to 1928, in 1925 by Ellen Emmet Rand. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

The Pioneering Work of a Female Portrait Artist

The curator of the Ellen Emmet Rand exhibition at Benton Museum describes the early 20th-century portraitist as "one of the most important female artists that you’ve never heard of before." Read more.

Schools and Colleges

PHR Shreya Kulkarni, Ph.D. candidate, awarded Baxter Young Investigator Award

CLAS All in the Family: Parental Influence on Language Acquisition in Children with Autism

UConn in the News

American Sociological Association

ASA Honors Leaders in the Discipline

Inside Higher Ed

To Add Black College Students, Recruit Black Schoolteachers, Study Says

Hearst news

What Goes Out to DC Doesn’t Always Come Back to CT

Reuters

Public Spaces Should Stock Bleeding-Control Kits for Mass Casualties, Experts Say

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