College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Seven CLAS Alumni Make HBJ’s 2020 List of 40 Under Forty

The Hartford Business Journal’s annual list recognizes some of the top young professionals leading organizations in Connecticut today.

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Americans Abroad: Escaping or Enhancing Life?

UConn's Arnold Dashefsky discusses insights from a new edition of a landmark study of Americans who live outside the US.

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$3M NSF Research Training Grant to Build Resilience in East Coast’s Megalopolis

UConn researchers have won a prestigious National Science Foundation to study environmental resilience in the sprawl of the East Coast's urban density.

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher Emma Burleigh ’21 (CLAS)

UConn rising senior Emma Burleigh is looking for a better understanding of the neuro networks for psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, PTSD, and depression.

UConn Research: More Carbon in the Ocean Can Lead to Smaller Fish

As the world's oceans absorb more carbon from human activity, one result could be smaller fish, according to UConn researchers.

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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 […]