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UConn School of Business (@UConnBusiness) professor Timothy B. Folta says the experience demonstrated how academic research and expertise can contribute to decisions beyond the university.
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UConn School of Law (@UConnLaw) graduates excelled on Connecticut’s July 2026 bar exam, achieving a 90% first-time passage rate on the inaugural NextGen Bar Exam.
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UConn retweeted
UConn Athletics is proud to announce a historic, multi-year partnership with Aetna® — building on our long-standing relationship and shared commitment to supporting women’s health and well-being.
@Aetna branding will be visible across all UConn women’s Olympic sports team uniforms.
🔗: uconnhuskies.com/aetnabadge
Owners Alexandra (Beaudoin) Pilon ’13 (CLAS) and Monica Beaudoin added seating, soft-serve ice cream, and more grab-and-go options for Hartford Huskies at Bloom Bake Shop on Pratt Street.
🔗 Learn more in the UConn Magazine: bit.ly/4jCPtdB
ALT Owner of Bloom Bake Shop in Hartford smiles with her bakery, florals, and coffee displayed behind her.
A UConn study brings together patients and an interdisciplinary team of physicians and researchers to explore how targeted nutrition may help improve strength, energy and quality of life for Parkinson’s patients.
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Building on its longstanding Honors Program, the new UConn Honors College will strengthen the opportunities that help students develop their potential and find a sense of purpose in their education.
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Assistant professor Kali Simmons and her expertise are especially in demand between Halloween in October and Native American Heritage Month in November.
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A new study led by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, dean of @UConnCAHNR has shown that plant-based antimicrobials are a promising avenue in the future of controlling antibiotic resistance in food-borne pathogens.
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A collaboration between researchers at UConn Health and the Yale School of Medicine is advancing efforts to address family violence by helping fathers became safer, more engaged parents and coparents.
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Steve Gillette ’26 MSA made a hard but intentional decision to pivot his career from police officer to accountant.
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The new Digital Health and Technology concentration gives UConn students firsthand experience with the tools transforming modern healthcare and build skills sought by employers across the medical industry.
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Sisters Lucy Homer ’27 (ENG, CLAS) and Kathryn Homer ’29 (ED, BUS) will give once-a-month science lessons at Natchaug Elementary School through the UConn-Willimantic Young Scientist Program, a project funded by an IDEA Grant.
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The “Light It Red” initiative brought together @uconnwaterbury, the City of Waterbury, and Decoding Dyslexia-CT to highlight the importance of early identification, evidence-based instruction, and support for people with dyslexia.
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Earlier this month, 29 master’s and Ph.D. students decoded the complexities of their research at UConn with Three-Minute Thesis presentations.
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This study represents the first to systematically assess how the timing of access to language, the modality of language learned, and hearing status affect children’s acquisition of the cardinal principle and the ability to create sets larger than six.
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UConn’s Ph.D. program in the Department of Kinesiology, located within @UConnCAHNR, has come out at the top of this year’s National Academy of Kinesiology’s (NAK) doctoral program evaluation.
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Former @UConnWHOC player Ainsley Svetek ’23 ’24 (ENG), ’27 (CAHNR) is using her personal experience recovering from injury to inform her graduate studies in kinesiology and help other players get back on the ice safely.
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UConn retweeted
UConn and M&T Bank are proud to announce a historic expansion of their partnership that includes multiyear naming rights for Gampel Pavilion.
The facility will be officially renamed as M&T Bank Center at Gampel Pavilion.
🔗: uconnhuskies.com/mtbankcente…
