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An overhead view of the new Student Recreation Center on a sunny day

New Student Recreation Center: It’s What’s Inside That Counts

UConn's brand-new Student Recreation Center is set to transform the campus experience for the entire community. Read more.

UConn Receives Eight Early Career Awards from NSF

The National Science Foundation’s most coveted award for early career researchers was given to scientists in chemistry, math, physics, statistics and engineering. Read more.

The QRFertile lab at the Technology Incubator Program (TIP) space at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington on June 14, 2019. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Startup Central: Inside UConn’s Technology Incubation Program

A photo tour of UConn's Technology Incubation Program, where the University is helping innovative start-ups launch and succeed. Read more.

Two actors on stage, an African-American woman and a white man, warily eye each other in a backdrop of Aboriginal Austrlian art and scenery

Behind the Scenes With UConn’s Resident Dramaturg

Dramaturgs are often the unsung heroes in bringing plays to vivid life, explains Professor Lindsay Cummings. Read more.

Michael Lynch, professor and director of philosophy on May 31, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

‘Know-It-All Society’: New Book Explains Growing Arrogance in Politics

The internet, particularly social media, is an outrage factory that increases political tribalism, says Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Michael Lynch in his new book. Read more.

Amanda Bunce, a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources, inventories trees within the UConn Forest. (Tom Rettig/UConn Photo)

Yellowstone: A Landscape with Lessons

Yellowstone National Park and the UConn Forest look nothing alike but both speak to the same point: disturbances in the ecosystem drastically alter the landscape. Lessons from one may inform the other. Read more.

Thomas Katsouleas receives applause following his address to the Board of Trustees after his appointment to be the 16th University president during a meeting at the Wilbur Cross North Reading Room on Feb. 5, 2019. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Katsouleas Highlights Research and Education Goals in His First President’s Report

In his first report to the Board of Trustees, President Katsouleas spoke about a range of topics, from his goal to increase the research enterprise and recruit a new provost, to throwing out the first pitch at a recent New York Mets game. Read more.

President Tom Katsouleas, right, throws the ceremonial first pitch to Scott Roberts, UConn foundation president, at Citi Field in Queens during a New York Mets baseball game on Aug. 11, 2019. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Pitching in for the New York Mets

UConn President Tom Katsouleas threw the ceremonial first pitch during a New York Mets baseball game Sunday. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

BUS CCEI’s 2019 Entrepreneurship Summer Fellowship Champs

CAHNR UConn Receives NSF Grant for ‘Environment Corps’ Project

DENT Back to School: Largest Class Ever Arrives to UConn Health

ED Preston Green Named John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education

MED Spinal Oncology Surgeon Dr. David Choi Joins UConn Health

UConn in the News

Science Codex

National Report Card Rates States’ Safety Policies for High School Athletes

Consumer Affairs

Walnuts Could Help Consumers Fight Ulcerative Colitis

Associated Press

Reparations for Slavery Emerge as Issue Among Democrats Running for President

USA Today

DNA Evidence: This New England ‘Vampire’ was Named John Barber in Life

Opera Wire

Anna Lindemann’s ‘The Colony’ To Make World Premiere

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