College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

A juvenile great white shark breaching out of the Indian Ocean

Marine Sciences Student Studies in the Great White Shark Capital of the World

Melissa Sanchez ’22 (CLAS) was one of only two students nationwide selected to participate in the 2021 Minorities in Shark Science Fellowship in Mossel Bay, South Africa.

Adrienne Bruce ’22 (CLAS) decided to learn Korean during the early weeks of the pandemic.

UConn Magazine: Speaking the Language

What to do when at home during a pandemic? Learn a new language, of course

Connecticut Foodshare CEO Jason Jakubowski '99 (CLAS), '01 MPA.

UConn Magazine: ‘You Change the Way You Live When You’re Hungry’

Connecticut Foodshare CEO Jason Jakubowski '99 (CLAS), '01 MPA talks about the challenges of keeping people fed during a global pandemic

Matt Smith '92 manages what may be America's preeminent listening room.

UConn Magazine: Nightclub Confidential

'People walked out of here beaming'

After shaping her plans at UConn, Hayley Segar '17 is ready to launch her own swimwear line.

With Help From UConn, Alumna Hayley Segar Dives Into Women’s Swimwear Industry

Hayley Segar ’17 says her mentors helped with everything from marketing to securing trademarks

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon are aligned in a straight path.

Keep Your Eyes to the Night Sky to Catch the Blood Moon on November 19

The event will be the longest partial lunar eclipse visible from Connecticut this century

Jordan Buslewicz ’23 (ENG) tests a wastewater sample with Kingfisher Apex robot at the Microbial Analysis, Resources, and Services (MARS) facility. The Apex has quadrupled the number of daily samples that MARS personnel can test for COVID-19 (Lisa Nigro/MARS).

UConn Established as Center of Excellence for Wastewater-based COVID-19 Surveillance

UConn was one of the first universities in the country to implement the testing to detect COVID-19

The UConn students and faculty members who traveled to the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

Reflections on COP26: Uncertainty and Hope

Many countries have committed to further reductions, but still not enough to reduce warming to the critical 1.5C threshold

UConn Magazine: Rise Up

Breaking bread is about more than just eating

A television camera operator works in front of a COP26 logo displayed on a screen ahead of an event on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 9, 2021.

COP26: A UConn Perspective on the Climate Change Summit

CIRCA's Jim O'Donnell shares his on-the-ground perspective from the momentous conference in Scotland