The University of Connecticut (UConn) is one of America’s top 20 public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. It is home to more than 31,000 students, 1,300 faculty, 230,000 proud alumni, and a handsome husky named Jonathan.

The University has fourteen schools and colleges: Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business, Dental Medicine, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work. Students can choose from eight undergraduate bachelor's degrees with 102 possible majors, as well as seventeen graduate/doctoral degrees and five professional degree programs (MD, JD, etc.).

UConn's main campus in Storrs is admitting the highest-achieving freshmen in University history. Student diversity continues to increase, as does the number of honors students, valedictorians and salutatorians who consistently make UConn their top choice. It's a great time to be a Husky!

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Dr. Amy Gorin is a Professor of Psychological Sciences and Director of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) at the University of Connecticut.  She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown Medical School’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center.  At UConn, Dr. Gorin founded the multidisciplinary Obesity Research Interest Group, which now includes over 170 members, all of whom share a common interest in understanding, preventing, and treating obesity.  Her own research focuses on developing innovative treatment strategies to improve long-term weight loss and maintenance with an emphasis on motivational and environmental processes that impact weight management.  She actively collaborates across disciplinary divides and has research partnerships with national leaders in obesity management. Dr. Gorin has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, many focusing on the role of the home environment in weight management.  She has established that behavioral weight management programs can have a positive ripple effect on untreated family members and that weight loss can spread within a household. In addition to her own research, Dr. Gorin invests significant time in mentoring her graduate trainees and in supporting faculty development and team science initiatives at UConn, including directing the Training and Development Core at InCHIP.

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