UConn Today

The first African-American Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court will be keynote speaker at the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Jan. 24. Read his profile in UConn Magazine.

The change supports the University’s ongoing sustainable efforts and is the result of a joint effort between Dining Services and the Zero Waste Campaign of UConnPIRG.

UConn researchers developed low-cost environmental sensor units to facilitate the collection of fine-scale data. Now they're making them available to others.

Routine screening may be needed for people at risk of hemochromatosis, according to research by UConn Health and University of Exeter.

Pain researcher Erin Young can't wait for people to stop asking what it's like to be a woman in her field.

Each year, seven female UConn students will benefit from opportunities for career development and support, thanks to a grant from Helen Gurley Brown’s Pussycat Foundation.

Black children and teens each viewed an average of more than 16 food-related ads per day in 2017, compared to 8.8 ads-per-day for white children and 7.8 ads for white teens.

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.

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."

As one of seven institutions that are part of a national University Principal Preparation Initiative, UConn's updated program will emphasize practical training and coaching from current or former school administrators.