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UConn Professor Tells How Sons of Slaves Overcame Obstacles to Pursue Education
UConn's Anna Mae Duane discusses two African American men whose antebellum lives ask a still-relevant question: What does it mean to be American?
June 3, 2020 | Kenneth Best
So You Want to Have a Virtual Conference? Here’s a UConn Professor Who Did It – and is Planning to Do It Again
Professor Sherry Pagoto talks about the challenges - and benefits - of hosting a multi-day academic conference entirely online.
June 3, 2020 | Jaclyn Severance
New Pandemic Journaling Project Captures People’s COVID-19 Experiences
Associate Professor of Anthropology Sarah Willen is leading an interdisciplinary collaboration to record the voices and everyday experiences of individuals living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2, 2020 | Amanda Song
This Class is Real, and It’s Spectacular: UConn Professor Lectures on ‘Seinfeld’ in Unique Forum
UConn law professor Sara Bronin is using 'Seinfeld' to lecture about real-world legal issues.
June 2, 2020 | Camille Chill, UConn School of Law
UConn Researchers Collaborate to Study Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence
UConn researchers have won a grant to research the increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2, 2020 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
How Americans are Coping with COVID-19 Stress
UConn researchers are studying how Americans experience and respond to stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 1, 2020 | Jessica McBride, PhD
UConn to Offer Collaborative Minor in Digital Public History
The new Digital Public History minor connects humanities research with digital media and design tools, opening up new career opportunities to students.
June 1, 2020 | Amanda Song, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
A Message to the UConn Community
Dear UConn Community, Recent events have called national attention yet again to the destructive power of prejudice and racism. The death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis serves as our most recent example. We are disgusted by the images we have seen capturing the unconscionable acts that caused his death. Demonstrations across the […]
May 31, 2020 | Combined Reports
Franklin A. Tuitt Named Chief Diversity Officer
Franklin A. Tuitt, who has over two decades of higher education administration experience, has been named Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Connecticut. He will officially begin his duties in July 2020.
May 28, 2020 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
UConn Historian Considers the Legacy of Little Richard, Architect of Rock ‘n’ Roll
UConn historian Jeffrey Ogbar discusses the career and legacy of pioneering rock 'n' roll artist Little Richard.
May 28, 2020 | Kenneth Best