Schools & Colleges
Ph.D. Student Pauline Batista Seeks to Support Youth’s Voice
“In my work as a researcher,” says LLEP doctoral candidate Pauline Batista ’16 MA, “I come from an understanding where youth do not have a voice unless youth have the educational skill set or the educational apparatus.”
UConn Law Welcomes Dean Eboni Nelson
Eboni S. Nelson joined UConn as dean of the School of Law on July 31, 2020. Her appointment was announced in March, after a nationwide search to find a successor to Dean Timothy Fisher, who is stepping down to join the faculty. Nelson comes to UConn from the University of South Carolina School of Law, […]
UConn Health Minute: Teledermatology
UConn Health dermatology offers teledermatology services for their patients. This “virtual care” is just like an in-office appointment with the dermatologists you trust but from the safety and comfort of your home.
Summer Undergraduate Researcher Rachel Bahouth ’21 (CLAS)
UConn senior Rachel Bahouth is researching parasite community composition across the geographic range of Eastern bluebirds.
Op-Ed: How Studying Racism Helped Us Become Anti-Racist Activists
Twelve students collaborated on an op-ed piece explaining how their coursework prepared them to respond to the police brutality that sparked protests around the world this summer.
UConn Startup Snags Third Place in Largest Graduate-Level Student Pitch Competition
A startup with origins in the University of Connecticut School of Engineering was awarded third place in the Mercury Fund Elevator Pitch Competition category of the Rice Business Plan Competition, the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student startup event.
CLAS Undergraduates Learn to Do Research From Home
Aquia Providence ‘21 (CLAS) loved her research routine. For three years as an undergraduate in assistant professor Julie Fosdick’s geoscience laboratory, she got to examine samples of four-billion-year-old rocks. And she was crushing it. “I could do rock crushing, which is where you crush rocks in a metal bowl with your hands, or I could do gold […]
“Koi People,” Quantitative Analysis, and Quarantine
A summer project gave UConn students an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, innovation - and carp.
Dr. Mae Jemison to Receive the 2020 Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D. Lifetime Research Achievement Award
Physician, engineer and astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison is recipient of the 2020 Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Lifetime Research Achievement Award. She is the first African American woman to travel into space
Meet Evelyn Tribble: Shakespeare Fanatic, Hammer Thrower, and New CLAS Associate Dean for Humanities and Undergraduate Affairs
Tribble aims to enhance humanities research and introduce new methods of multi-media student evaluation.