The five nurses making up our first Periop 101 cohort are now at work in our operating room. It's a new comprehensive training program we launched earlier this year to help address OR staffing challenges, which is a national workforce shortage issue. Learn more about our Periop 101 OR nurse training program.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests a switch to a healthier diet can have benefits even late in life. Led by geneticist Blanka Rogina, the researchers report fruit flies who switched from a high-calorie to low-calorie diet showed improvements and tended to live longer, even when they already were old, obese, and relatively unhealthy.

Imagine growing up idolizing UConn basketball, being a UConn undergrad while the team wins a national title, training with the doctors who treat the athletes, then coming back to UConn as an orthopedic surgeon to work alongside those same doctors who had become your mentors? Read how Dr. Corey Dwyer's path to becoming a sports medicine physician is painted in Husky blue.

For some, the holiday season can overlap with seasonal depression. While this can happen in both young and old, depression in older adults often is more complicated. Learn more from Dr. Kristina Zdanys, geriatric psychiatrist in the UConn Center on Aging, which offers one of the biggest divisions of geriatric psychiatry in the country.

Thank you for your question, which I shared with Angela Linnhoff, senior director of food and nutrition, who assures us we indeed have a system that alerts her team to any recalls, and they take them very seriously. So, short answer, yes!

Speaking of our food and nutrition services, here’s a bonus submission, in the spirit of the season:

I have nothing to add other than, well done indeed! Thank you for taking the time to share this positive feedback for us to offer as a small dose of holiday cheer.

Happy holidays!

Get ready to change the way you get your news and information! You've been waiting, and now we're only days away from the launch of our new intranet, the Hub. Watch a sneak preview of what will be our workforce's secure, searchable gateway to news, announcements, tools, and resources.

What do flames have to do with mouse teeth? Biomedical engineering student Sobhan Katebifar's interpretation led to an artistic rendering of one of his research photo, which he entered into a Science as Art competition at the Materials Research Society fall meeting in Boston. Learn how he fared, what inspired his creation, and the intended message behind it.

This year's "Highly Cited Researchers" list includes five UConn professors, including two from the medical school: Dr. Vijay A. Rathinam, associate professor of immunology and director of the Graduate Program in Immunology, and Dr. George Weinstock, professor of genetics and genome sciences and Professor, Evnin Family Chair and Director of Microbial Genomics at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, who passed away last month. Learn about the methodology and find out who else makes the 2023 list.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin now holds the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation's 2023 Inventor of the Year Award, recently presented to him at the group's annual awards celebration in Washington, D.C. Watch the IPOEF's video honoring Dr. Laurencin and his work, and join UConn leadership too in extending our congratulations to Dr. Laurencin!