NBC Connecticut

Hartford students surprised with $20,000 scholarships to the University of Hartford

On Tuesday, dozens of public high school students in Hartford were surprised with college acceptance to the University of Hartford and a $20,000 scholarship over the next four years for college. “i ...
Hartford Courant

University of Hartford’s new president is listening. And is ‘relentlessly focused on student success’

Lawrence P. Ward has deep roots in Connecticut’s Capital City and is happy to be home as the new president of the University of Hartford. Ward officially stepped into his new position as the school’s ...
WTNH

University of Hartford gets $1.6M grant for medical research program

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The University of Hartford has launched a biomedical research program with the help of a $1.6 million federal grant, the school announced on Wednesday. The grant is from ...
Hartford Courant

University housing could boost CT city’s profile as a college town. Where UConn is looking.

Two universities are moving fast to establish student housing in downtown Hartford — the first as early as August — in what could ignite momentum to the city’s long-held aspiration to become a ...
Hartford Business

University of Hartford names new president

Lawrence P. Ward, who is currently vice president for learner success and dean of campus life at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, will become UHart’s seventh president on July 1. He will ...