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Saurabh is a senior at UConn and recipient of the University Scholar laureate, among other recognitions. In this concluding episode, we dive deeper into the University Scholar program and Saurabh’s growth as a...

Avadhut and Gaganjot both work in a kinesiology lab focusing on using an application and other techniques to understand various learning disabilities and developing ways to tackle this issue in kids. They both...

Nicole and Imane are seniors at UConn that participated in funded research abroad over the summer. They both had the amazing chance to go to Australia to conduct research under a fellowship offered by UConn’s ...

Hind and Jonathan are currently involved in RESULTS, a club on campus that focuses on ending poverty through political action. Hind is co-president and has been involved in the national chapter’s annual confer...

Wanjiku (Wawa) is a prominent activist on campus who is also a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, and UConn’s first Rhodes scholar. She is the co-founder of UCAFE, UConn Access to Food Effort, an IDEA grant that i...

Jacob is currently a journalist and serves on the Executive Board for STEMTalk magazine. It is the only student-run STEM-based magazine on UConn campus. He is a computer science major and has published numerou...

Akash is involved in LINKS (Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Knowledge-perception Systems), an engineering lab on UConn campus with military applications. He directly works in software development for pa...

Ajitha launched a low-cost CPR training program at Danbury Hospital over the summer. CPR was taught to the families of patients identified as high risk (low cardiac output, previous MIs, ST-elevation). An inst...

Serena leads a nutritional intervention that investigates the effect of the nutrient choline on blood health markers (triglycerides, HDL/LDL cholesterol, glucose, inflammatory markers). Egg intervention in hea...

IDEA grant recipient Danielle Cross shares her research on the effects of representation in film on White American’s views towards African Americans. Her study specifically introduces counter-stereotypical Afr...