Author Archive: Tom Breen

• May 17, 2013 UConn’s Neag School Hosts Training Sessions to Prepare Educators for Crises The Neag School is hosting three days of training aimed at helping educators prepare for and respond to various crises that can occur in schools.
• May 16, 2013 iPads 101 for Teachers UConn’s Neag School gave 400 K-12 educators a crash course in classroom uses for the high tech tool at a conference on campus this week.
• May 2, 2013 Ph.D. Candidate Specializes in Underwater Acoustic Communications While at UConn, Zhaohui Wang ’13 Ph.D. has published 12 journal articles, 17 conference papers, worked on two NSF-funded proposals, and co-authored a textbook.
• April 25, 2013 How Robots Can Help Children with Autism Learn and Communicate A UConn-affiliated researcher is preparing to take his work on robots and autism out of the lab and into the marketplace.
• April 16, 2013 UConn’s Student Evaluations of Teaching ‘Go Green’ With New Online Initiative Bubble sheets and comment sheets will soon be a thing of the past, as a new online format is launched for student evaluations of teaching.
• April 16, 2013 Class of 2013: Ethan Sarnoski, Future Microbiologist After excelling in pathobiology research aas an undergraduate, Ethan Sarnoski ’13 (CANR) is heading to Yale as a Ph.D. candidate in microbiology.
• April 5, 2013 Symposium Highlights Unprecedented Academic Collaborations Created by Digital Media A packed house heard about the benefits of incorporating digital media into academic work.
• April 3, 2013 Digital Media Specialists Harovas and Olschan Join the UConn Faculty Perry Harovas and Samantha Olschan bring extensive private sector experience to UConn’s new and rapidly growing Department of Digital Media and Design.
• April 2, 2013 Symposium Highlights UConn’s Ties to Urban Connecticut From nursing to agriculture, UConn faculty, staff, and students make a difference in cities across the state.
• March 28, 2013 Education Law Expert Preston Green III Joins UConn Faculty Green, who will join UConn from Penn State in the fall, will have a joint appointment in the Neag School and the School of Law.
• March 7, 2013 Renzulli Academy Model Expands to Three New Connecticut School Districts The highly successful Renzulli Academy in Hartford is now being replicated in Bridgeport, New London, and Windham.