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Lost Your Sense of Smell? Suspect COVID-19

Dr. Denis Lafreniere, Chief of the Division of ENT at UConn Health, discusses one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19. Read more.

Journalism professor and Crash Course editor Marie Shanahan works with a student in her publication course in 2019, before the pandemic.

A ‘Crash Course’ for the 2020 US Presidential and Local Elections

A student-run newsletter aims to inform Connecticut voters, especially first-timers, what to expect at the polls and on the ballot this Election Day. Read more.

An actor attired as a garish Dia de los Muertos skeleton, appearing in the play "Sugar Skull"

Jorgensen Digital Stage Sets Livestreaming Fall Performance Schedule

Building on a successful summertime experiment with livestreaming, the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts is going digital for its Fall 2020 season. Read more.

An illustration depicting the coronavirus microbe.

UConn Health Model: Travel Ban Would Have Killed CT COVID in August

UConn Health's Pedro Mendes talks about what a sophisticated computer model of Connecticut's COVID-19 infections tells us about where we've been, and where we might be headed. Read more.

HuskyGo transportation shuttle bus on Discovery Drive. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn to Turn Over Bus Operations to WRTD; Plan Saves Money, Promotes Use of Electric Buses

UConn is turning over operation of its passenger bus fleet to the Windham Regional Transit District, saving the University money and promoting the use of electric buses. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

OVPR OVPR Announces Scholarship Facilitation Fund Awards

OVPR Quarterly Recap of Pharmacy Faculty Research Grants – FY 2020 Q4

CLAS Ph.D. Student Receives Robert Wood Johnson Funding for Accessible Mental Health Care Research

CLAS In Memoriam: Charles Vinsonhaler, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

ED The Renzulli Center: A Worldwide Leader in Gifted Education

MED I Think of Strokes Happening in Older People, Not Me

MED Elite Fellowship Backs UConn Health Scholar’s Violence Research

SSW Social Work Faculty Earn UConn Research Awards

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