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Denisse Tafur, Huakang Huang and Dinesh Babu Uthaya Kumar are UConn Graduate School students studying biomedical science who completed advanced training in translational research at the NIH's Clinical Center this summer.

Graduate School Applications and Rankings on the Rise

Applications to graduate programs at UConn are on the upswing, while several of the programs rose in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Read more.

Amanda Bunce, a master's degree student in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, climbs a 30-foot ladder in order to affix a monitoring device to a red oak. (Sheila Foran/UConn Photo)

On the Research Landscape, Private Funding Grows

Fiscal 2016 was a record year for the UConn Foundation’s fundraising for research, with the total more than double that of the previous record year. Read more.

Close up shot of a man pinching fat from his belly. (Getty Images)

The Healing Power of Fat

A patient at UConn Health has his voice restored with help from an unlikely source: his body's fat cells. Read more.

The photo shows a replica of Thoreau’s best-known boat, Musketaquid, named for the Algonquian word for 'grassy plain,' used to describe the area that became the town of Concord. (Photo by Juliet Wheeler)

Thoreau: Out of the Woods and Onto the River

UConn professor Robert Thorson says Henry David Thoreau, best known for writing about life in the woods, was also a boatman and scientific expert. Read more.

Stephen Schmidt, Garrett Yantosh, Mathew Pias and Conor Champagne, all Class of 2017, climbed to the summit of the tallest mountain in Costa Rica, Cerro Chirripo: 12,532 feet.

Scenes from Spring Break 2017

From jet-skiing, to sightseeing, to assisting with flood relief, UConn students took spring break as an opportunity to expand their horizons. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CLAS UConn Philosopher Ruth Millikan Awarded Rolf Schock Prize

CLAS In Memoriam: Ralph Porter Collins, Emeritus Professor of Biology

SFA A UConn SFA Grad explains his journey from these very walls to the big bad world.

CAHNR Researchers examine road salt contamination in groundwater and wells

UConn in the News

Dallas Morning News

Today’s teens are ‘wired and tired,’ but they’re not wasted

Christian Science Monitor

Utah sets lowest DUI limit in nation: anomaly or trendsetter?

Radio Dispatch

Preston Green on how the charter sector resembles the Enron crisis