College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

UConn Selected to Help Create National Network on Emotional Wellbeing Research

A trio of UConn researchers are developing an interdisciplinary network to advance scientific understanding of emotional wellbeing.

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Undergraduate Sociology Students Create Academic Journal

The Mirror is an academic journal written and edited by UConn undergraduates

The arrows show where oligodendrocyte precursor cells (blue – all OPCs, pink- dividing OPCs) and their growth factor receptors are in contact with microglia (green) and their signaling proteins (red).

Repairing Nerves Requires Prods of Protein

It turns out the 'bad guys' of the brain aren't so bad after all

Mukund Desibhatla, Victoria Sun and Isaac Faustino pose for portraits.

Class of 2021: CLAS Seniors Share How and Why they Chose Their Major

Choosing what to study is a “major” decision. Several senior students share how they decided the paths they wanted to pursue.

Chloe Murphy and Zhian Xie, graduating students in the class of 2021, pose for portrait photos.

Class of 2021: CLAS Graduates on Finishing School During COVID

Students from the UConn graduating class of 2021 reflect on what they realized while attending university during a pandemic.

Vishal Patel standing in front of an ambulence

UConn Magazine: The Test Drive

Vishal Patel ’21 (BUS, CLAS) sampled primary care as an EMT.

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20th Class of Humanities Institute Fellows Pursue Wide Range of Scholarship

This year’s class of fellows includes two visiting residential fellows, four dissertation scholars, and nine UConn faculty fellows

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Five UConn Faculty Honored as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors

UConn has selected five of its most renowned scholars to honor with its most prestigious faculty title, the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor.

Ecologists are ‘Lichen’ a Surprising New Find on Campus

Next to a well-traveled walkway on the Storrs campus is a sight not seen in Connecticut since William Howard Taft was president: Golden-eye lichen

Three graduating student portraits. From left: William Aleman, Yasaman Homayouni, and Kristyn Leamon.

Class of 2021: CLAS Students share What – and Who – Inspires Them

Family, faculty, and peer connections are some of the things that motivated the students in the CLAS class of 2021 through an unprecedented year.