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06/19/2026

“A practice like this is meant for a place like this,” says Nicole Hellthaler, who directs the global Prison Yoga Project and teaches Tuesday and Wednesday classes at the county jail in Little Rock, Arkansas.

“A practice like this is meant for a place like this,” says Nicole Hellthaler, who directs the global Prison Yoga Project and teaches Tuesday and Wednesday classes at the county jail in Little Rock, Arkansas.

06/19/2026

The final community of enslaved Americans was liberated on June 19, 1865 – over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Today we celebrate freedom and the contributions of African American communities in the United States.

Learn more about UConn’s Africana Studies Institute, a community of scholars studying the African American Experience: https://africana.uconn.edu/

06/18/2026

Biomedical engineers at UConn have been awarded a R33 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a breakthrough diagnostic smartphone-based platform to make early lung cancer detection faster, more affordable, accessible and less invasive.

R33 grant to develop and optimize a programmable smartphone-based diagnostic platform to detect mutations in blood samples

06/18/2026

From industry scientist to award-winning educator and researcher, Jasna Jankovic has built a career at the intersection of materials science, clean energy, and innovation.

From industry scientist to award-winning educator and researcher, Jasna Jankovic has built a career at the intersection of materials science, clean energy, ...

06/17/2026

Arthur M. Horwitz dates his hall-of-fame journalism career not to his appointment as the editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Daily Campus but to his days on a New Haven paper route.

Arthur M. Horwitz dates his hall-of-fame journalism career not to his appointment as the editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Daily Campus but to his days on ...

06/17/2026

New publication from UConn Health researchers demonstrates promising technique for healing damage from dry eye, surgery, and toxin exposure.

New publication from UConn Health researchers demonstrates promising technique for healing damage from dry eye, surgery, and toxin exposure

06/17/2026

There are no current cases of New World Screwworm (NWS) in the Northeast, but one UConn expert shares information to keep Connecticut animals and residents safe.

There are no current cases of New World Screwworm (NWS) in the Northeast, but one UConn expert shares information to keep Connecticut animals and residents safe

06/16/2026

For more than 50 years, nutrition education through UConn Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) has quietly shaped what happens at kitchen tables across Connecticut, how families shop, cook, stretch their food dollars, and make everyday decisions that affect their health.

What began as in-home cooking lessons in the 1960s is now a program that reaches across Connecticut with evidence-based, impact-driven nutrition education

06/16/2026

The Beekley Makerspace will be a hub for ideas that unite science and compassion. Equipped with advanced technology including rapid-prototyping equipment and collaborative software, it will enable students to test, refine, and bring their ideas to life. Projects can range from accessible medical devices to workflow solutions that improve patient safety, all shaped by the needs and experiences of learners and informed by the health systems and communities they serve.

Mission-driven support for the next generation of nurse innovators

06/15/2026

Researchers theorize that having a positive aging role model might be enough to change one’s own thinking: 'If they look good with gray hair, I might too.'

Researchers theorize that having a positive aging role model might be enough to change one’s own thinking: 'If they look good with gray hair, I might t ...