Storrs

Connecticut State Police troopers were called to a party of around 100 people on Saturday night near UConn’s Storrs campus, police said. Troopers received a call around 11:56 p.m. of a loud party with an estimated 100 people, who were not social distancing, police said. They ordered people at the location at 205 Hunting Lodge Road to disperse, police said….

For UConn students arriving on the Storrs campus Saturday, among the things to check off the move-in list was getting a required COVID-19 test. “It was pretty fast. It was very organized,” said Chanel Johnson, a UConn sophomore. Before returning to campus, students needed to test negative. And then after a second test once on campus, they must quarantine here…

The University of Connecticut is gearing up for a new semester with similar safety measures put in place last year.

The spring semester is just around the corner for several colleges and universities here in our state, as COVID-19 remains a concern.

A group of UConn students is doing contact tracing work in the state, calling those who have recently tested positive for COVID-19.

University of Connecticut officials are reporting 28 additional COVID-19 cases since Saturday. Of these new cases, 14 are on-campus positive cases and the other 14 are off-campus positives, university officials said. Seven of the 28 new cases were already in medical quarantine, the university said. University officials said that 23 of these new cases were identified through 740 surveillance tests,…

UConn officials added new modified quarantine restrictions for residential students at the Storrs campus.

The University of Connecticut is investigating after multiple reports of anti-Semitic incidents on the Storrs campus. Officials said the incidents happened in residence halls on South Campus and included vandalism to photos of a menorah and a kinara in one and there was disturbing language written on the whiteboard of another. “These recent reports were all acts of physical damage…

The University of Connecticut is prohibiting students from attending off-campus social gatherings through Nov. 4, school officials said Friday. Any residential students who attend off-campus social gatherings will be referred to Community Standards by Connecticut State Police, the university said. School officials said this only applies to social gatherings and does not apply to voting on Nov. 3. This comes…

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Being stuck inside a dorm for two weeks is not what UConn freshman Aidan Toland imagined the college experience would be like. But he and dozens of others are doing just that after UConn alerted on Friday that Belden Hall, which houses 93 students, had been placed under quarantine because of a rising number of positive cases associated with the…

A student in quarantine at UConn Storrs spoke with NBC Connecticut about his experience.

Fall 2020 is the first time that UConn students will have the chance to learn about the roots of racism in our country. The nine-week course is designed to teach students about the foundational and systemic racism in the country that affects communities of color. Widespread protest and racial tension are some of the reasons the university decided to develop…

The course is designed to teach students about systemic and anti-Black racism.

An investigation is underway on the University of Connecticut Storrs campus after the school’s spirit rock was defaced.

Students at UConn who are back at school and dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic now have the option of taking a course in emotional wellness.

More students who live in a residence hall at the University of Connecticut that was placed under medical quarantine yesterday have tested positive for COVID-19. School officials said the school currently has 56 positive and/or suspected cases of coronavirus on campus. That number includes seven new positive cases since yesterday, five of whom were already in medical quarantine, they added….

A residence hall at the University of Connecticut has been placed under medical quarantine starting on Saturday after multiple new cases of coronavirus in the building. School officials said the school currently has 51 positive and/or suspected cases of coronavirus on campus. That number includes 12 new positive cases since yesterday, six of whom were already in medical quarantine, they…

A residence hall at the University of Connecticut has been placed under medical quarantine starting on Saturday after multiple new cases of coronavirus in the building.

After tracking a cluster of COVID-19 cases to an off-campus apartment building in Mansfield, UConn is requiring more than 700 students to quarantine as a precaution.