College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Brian Aguilera '19 (CLAS) and Mallika Ghosh, assistant professor of cell biology, with microscope images of tunneling nanotubes at UConn Health. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

International Student Embraces Research Opportunities at UConn

Colombia native Brian Aguilera '19 (CLAS) was one of a select group taking part in a new research program for undergraduates to work with faculty at UConn Health.

Steven Wisensale, professor of human development and family studies, watches a baseball game in Japan. (Chris Moore for UConn)

Coveted Class: Baseball and Society: Politics, Economics, Race, and Gender

Human development and family studies professor Steven Wisensale has designed a curriculum about baseball that isn’t a softball.

Holster Scholar presenters with Robert Holster '68 (CLAS), second from right, on September 25, 2017.

Holster Scholars Present on Topics from Cancer to Plastic to Aging

Eight ambitious students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering conducted research that they began planning in their freshman year at UConn.

Students from North Carolina State’s Public History program protest Confederate statues, quoting Sinha’s New York Daily News opinion piece.

Our Monuments to Inequality

Why today’s America is much like that of the late 1800s, according to Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair of American History, and author of the prize-winning book, 'The Slave’s Cause.'

'Being a Husky teaches you how to be a better person – not just on campus, but for the rest of your life,' says Randazzo, an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Professor Joseph LoTurco and a student in the Special Program in Medicine as well as an athlete on the Women's Track team. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Student-Athlete Strong: Ericka Randazzo

'Being a Husky teaches you how to be a better person – not just on campus, but for the rest of your life,' says Randazzo, a student in the Special Program in Medicine as well as an athlete on the Women's Track team.

A Panel from the Marvel Comics series ‘The ’Nam.’

Op-ed: Comics Captured America’s Growing Ambivalence about the Vietnam War

The director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute says Vietnam War-era comics are a window into how people were interpreting events at the time.

A sampling of specimens from the National Parasite Collection.

One-third of Parasites May Become Extinct in Our Lifetime

Admittedly, parasites—tapeworms, roundworms, ticks, lice, fleas and other pests—have a bad reputation. But they play an important role in the ecosystem.

University students on a busy stairway. (Getty Images)

Study: Racism Rooted in Small Things People Say and Do

New study looks at prejudicial attitudes toward blacks among undergraduates at a university in the South.

Money bag against a U.S. flag as background. Concept of the Super PACs' influence on the Presidential elections in the United States. (Getty Images)

Super PACs ‘Based on Ideology Rather than Business’

Super PACs created to influence presidential and congressional election campaigns are primarily associated with ideological and issue-based causes rather than businesses, say UConn researchers.

Beckman Scholar Brock Chimileski ’17 (CLAS), left, alongside mentors Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology Alex Jackson and Ph.D. student Laura Mickelsen.

Beckman Scholars Program Prepares Research Leaders

The national scholarship program provides immersive research experiences to outstanding undergraduates majoring in the biological sciences or chemistry.