Campus
Committee Proposes Ways to Promote Civil Discourse
Among the key recommendations: Updating the University’s academic mission statement to include, 'exchanging ideas in a manner that fosters a climate of mutual respect.'
October 5, 2018 | President Susan Herbst
Building a Research Career at UConn
Sometimes walking into a professor’s office hours can launch a student on an incredible research track. Pierre Fils, a first-year graduate student on the Ph.D. track in structural engineering at the University of Connecticut, did just that his junior year. When he went to his design of steel structures professor, Arash Zaghi’s, office, Fils was […]
October 5, 2018 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
Building a Research Career at UConn
Sometimes walking into a professor’s office hours can launch a student on an incredible research track. Pierre Fils, a first-year graduate student on the Ph.D. track in structural engineering at the University of Connecticut, did just that his junior year. When he went to his design of steel structures professor, Arash Zaghi’s, office, Fils was […]
October 5, 2018 | Jessica McBride, PhD
Jonathan’s Golden Birthday
Jonathan XIV turns 5 (or 35, depending on who you ask) today!
October 5, 2018 | Angelina Reyes
The Role of Feedback in Health Information Sharing
A new UConn study says sharing health information through social media can lead to improved health, but only if feedback is positive.
October 4, 2018 | Kenneth Best
CLAS to Offer New Major in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations
'We want to shatter the binaries of East and West,' says Nicola Carpentieri, director of the new Arabic and Islamic Cilivilizations program.
October 4, 2018 | Christine Buckley
Before Homer Babbidge, There Was Wilbur Cross Library
For nearly 40 years until Babbidge Library opened, the Wilbur Cross Building was the academic heart of the University of Connecticut.
October 3, 2018 | Tom Breen
Adding Context to ‘Breast is Best’
A new study suggests that, independent of breastfeeding, a range of factors influence infant health in the first year of life, and these need to be supported by social policies.
October 3, 2018 | Kenneth Best
Learning to Be Latino
Sociologist Daisy Reyes discusses her new book on what it means to be Latino in college.
October 2, 2018 | Emma Whitford, Inside Higher Education
Meet the Researcher: Astrophysicist Cara Battersby
A young Cara Battersby once scrawled out the phrase “Science is curious” in a school project about what she wanted to do when she grew up. This simple phrase still captures Battersby’s outlook on her research about our universe. Recently shortlisted for the 2018 Nature Research Inspiring Science Award, Battersby has been working on several […]
October 1, 2018 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research