College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dean Ofer Harel hands out diplomas at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony one in Gampel Pavilion.

Ofer Harel Named Dean of UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 

Harel will lead the University’s largest college, serving 10,000 undergraduates,1,700 graduate students, and 950 faculty and staff over all five UConn campuses

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UConn 360 Podcast Returns With New Episodes

English professor Victoria Ford Smith and golf coach Dave Pezzino were the first two guests on the relaunched podcast

Participants of the Summer Seminar for Genocide Studies and Prevention engage in discussion during a session

First Scheidt Family Seminar Fellows at UConn Join Growing International Genocide Prevention Network

'The heart of genocide is one social identity hoping to wipe out another social identity'

Teresa Hopkins-Staten.

UConn Magazine: Theresa Hopkins-Staten, Energizer

An Eversource exec who is helping to spark the futures of a new generation of UConn students

The cupola above the Wilbur Cross building.

Graduate Student Sydney Clements Named Switzer Fellow For Environmental Studies

The Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation recognizes individuals driving positive environmental change

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Rachel Theodore Works to Expand Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Sciences at NSF

Theodore is in the middle of a two-year stint as a program director at NSF in Washington, D.C.

The cupola above the Wilbur Cross building.

Fulbright Recipients to Teach English Abroad

One student has also been named a recipient of a Scoville Peace Fellowship, the first in UConn history

A girl wearing a mask is standing by a lake measuring physiochemical conditions

UConn Earth Sciences Department Ranked in Top 25 by College Factual

 UConn was ranked at No. 16 overall for best geological and earth sciences degree

Reichgelt spotted this rock polygpody fern in Gay City State Park in Connecticut where a deciduous hardwood forest has overgrown the old waterworks. He says as evident from the graffiti, there's still quite a bit of human disturbance there, but the rock polypody seems to be ok with that, as long as it has the cover of the forest canopy.

City Fern, Country Fern: Citizen Science is Helping to Study Why Some Plants Love the City Life

If you want to create a diverse urban ecosystem, you want to include a diverse array of species because an ecosystem builds from the ground up

Keith Bellizzi.

UConn Magazine: Living With Chronic Illness

Gerontology professor Keith Bellizzi makes the study of chronic illness, death, and dying a spiritually uplifting one