College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS) at London Bridge during her Education Abroad experience in summer 2018.

Education Abroad: Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20, London, England

People 'asked me a lot of questions about American politics and we talked a lot about Brexit. Working and meeting with different people was a huge part of the experience,' says Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS).

Elic Weitzel, examines some bones in the lab at Beach Hall. (Roxanne Lebenzon/UConn Photo)

Food for Thought: Why Did We Ever Start Farming?

Findings support the idea that domestication happened in times when there was less than an ideal amount of food, says Elic Weitzel, a Ph.D. student in anthropology.

Project Oceanology class retrieves a bottom trawl at the mouth of the Thames River. (Anna Sawin/UConn Photo)

Citizen Science Shows Climate Change is Rapidly Reshaping Long Island Sound

At 0.45 degrees Celsius per decade, the Long Island Sound is warming four times faster than the global ocean, according to a UConn study based on four decades of data.

This example of Aphanorrhegma serratum, a species endemic to eastern North America (and found on UConn's main campus) shows both stages of the moss life cycle, with the circular structures representing the reproductive stage along with the more familiar gametophyte stage. (Bernard Goffinet/UConn Photo)

New Evidence Shows the Evolving Nature of Moss

Using DNA-sequencing technology, a research team including UConn's Bernard Goffinet have reconstructed the family tree of mosses, which go back at least 400 million years.

A driverless car evaluating upcoming traffic. (Getty Images)

Autonomous Vehicles: Diverse Group Seeks to Answer Broad Questions

Many societal hopes, fears, and questions that self-driving vehicles raise were discussed during a forum Monday hosted by UConn's Transportation Technology & Society (TTS) Research Group.

Students stand with Nicaraguan villagers.

Engineering for Human Rights

UConn’s Engineering for Human Rights Initiative aims to bridge the gap between STEM students and the good their work can do for citizens, communities, and societies.

Students GEOG 2505: Applications of Geographic Information Systems, taught by Richard Mrozinski in the Department of Geography, use GIS to map the number of tourist spots by county in the state of South Dakota.

CLAS to Offer New Geographic Information Science Major

The new program will train students in spatial thinking and analysis, a skill that gives them a big-picture perspective on solving many of the world’s economic, political, and environmental problems.

A drawing from Harper’s Weekly depicts a game between the Red Stockings and the Brooklyn Atlantics. (New York Public Library)

How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Turned Baseball into a National Sensation

As the league’s first openly salaried club, the team made professionalism – previously frowned upon – acceptable to the American public, writes UConn's Robert Wyss.

Math professor Damir Dzhafarov teaches a graduate class in logic in the Monteith Building. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Logic, a Common Thread at UConn

UConn has launched a new professional graduate certificate in logic, in which students from various disciplines hone the vital skills of logically and systematically analyzing information.

Preston Bogan '19 (CLAS) at the Palace of Versailles during an Education Abroad program in Paris. (Submitted Photo)

Education Abroad: Preston Bogan ’19, Paris, France

'If you don’t look outside your own comfort zone ... you are missing out,' says Bogan after spending a semester in Paris.