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A Message From President Katsouleas on Fall 2020

President Thomas Katsouleas writes to the UConn community with an update on plans for the fall semester. Read more.

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UConn Researcher Talks Vaccine Realities in an Unprecedented Time

The road to a COVID-19 vaccine may not be as wide open and untroubled as some expect, says a UConn researcher working on vaccine development. Read more.

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Nurse Researcher Studying Women’s Experiences Giving Birth During COVID-19 Pandemic

A researcher at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing is beginning to dive into the emotional and psychological impacts COVID-19 is having on mothers with newborn children. Read more.

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A Welcome Environment for Transgender Patients

With services including a dedicated gender-affirming hormone therapy program, UConn Health aims to break down historic barriers to LGBTQ+ health care access. Read more.

Dr. Murali Dharan MD is an assistant professor of gastroenterology and director of advanced endoscopy, and is one of the UConn Health physicians in Connecticut Magazine's 2020 list of best doctors in the state. January 8, 2020

2020 Best Doctors Named by Connecticut Magazine

Forty seven UConn Health physicians have been named to Connecticut Magazine's 2020 Best Doctors list. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CAHNR Meet graduate student Brandon Smith

CAHNR Medical laboratory sciences graduates staff COVID-19 diagnostic labs across the state

CAHNR UConn Researchers Receive $1.7 Million Grant to Study Impact of Postinfectious Brain Condition on Development

ED A Message From the Neag School Equity and Social Justice Committee

DENT ‘White Coats for Black Lives’ Movement

ENG Using AI for Novel Thermoset Plastics

LAW Professor Mathilde Cohen Selected for Fellowship at Princeton

MED Songs of Hope for COVID-19 Front Line Workers

MED National Recognition for UConn Health Faculty

UConn in the News

Wired

Across the Globe, Scientists Are Striking for Black Lives

The Chronicle of Higher Education

How #BlackInTheIvory Got Started, and What Its Founders Want to See Next

USA Today

Coronavirus Shutdowns Prevented 60 Million Infections In the USA, Study Says

NBC News

Black Women Create #BlackInTheIvory and #PublishingPaidMe to Reveal Inequity in Academia and Publishing

The Washington Post

The Floyd Protests Are the Broadest in U.S. History — and Are Spreading to White, Small-Town America

WFSB-TV

Nurse Who Became COVID-19 Patient Shares Story of Recovery

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