College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher Rachel Bahouth ’21 (CLAS)

UConn senior Rachel Bahouth is researching parasite community composition across the geographic range of Eastern bluebirds.

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Op-Ed: How Studying Racism Helped Us Become Anti-Racist Activists

Twelve students collaborated on an op-ed piece explaining how their coursework prepared them to respond to the police brutality that sparked protests around the world this summer.

Aquia Providence '21 (CLAS) works on her geoscience data entry from her family's beach home in Clinton, CT.

CLAS Undergraduates Learn to Do Research From Home 

Aquia Providence ‘21 (CLAS) loved her research routine. For three years as an undergraduate in assistant professor Julie Fosdick’s geoscience laboratory, she got to examine samples of four-billion-year-old rocks. And she was crushing it.  “I could do rock crushing, which is where you crush rocks in a metal bowl with your hands, or I could do gold […]

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Meet Evelyn Tribble: Shakespeare Fanatic, Hammer Thrower, and New CLAS Associate Dean for Humanities and Undergraduate Affairs

Tribble aims to enhance humanities research and introduce new methods of multi-media student evaluation.

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New Sea Grant Fellowship Supports Diverse Undergraduate Researchers

Three undergraduate students helping pave the way for greater diversity in the sciences have been chosen as the first recipients of Connecticut Sea Grant’s new summer undergraduate research fellowships for underrepresented and underserved students in marine and coastal scientific research. UConn students Andrew Tienken ’22 (CLAS)  and Larissa Tabb ’22 (CLAS) and Western Connecticut State […]

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Researchers Receive $3M Grant to Study How Yoga Helps People with Chronic Low Back Pain

UConn researchers Angela Starkweather and Crystal Park are turning their attention to some of the non-pharmacological methods for pain treatment — specifically, studying how yoga helps individuals with chronic low back pain.

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher Hanna Englander ’21 (CLAS)

A rising senior is spending her summer investigating how bacterial persisters survive lethal antibiotic treatments and contribute to infection relapse.

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Exploring the Effects of Social Isolation on Couples During a Pandemic

A UConn researcher is part of an effort to study how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way couples communicate and stay healthy.

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher Malachi Bridges ’21 (CLAS)

Malachi Bridges '21 (CLAS) is spending the summer researching racial disparities in rates of home ownership.

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Meet the Researcher Beth Russell, Human Development and Family Sciences

For researcher Beth Russell, her work is not only fascinating, it has potentially far-reaching impacts on people's daily lives.