Schools & Colleges
$3.8 Million Grant to Study Interpersonal Violence Exposure and Young Children
With the $3.8 million grant from NIMH, the UConn Health research team will look at several measures of threat reactivity to explain the diversity in outcomes observed in young children exposed to interpersonal violence.
The Opioid Crisis: Litigation, Gifts, and the Drug Companies
Law professor Alexandra Lahav discusses the significance of donations from drug companies to communities and organizations that had sued them over the opioid epidemic.
Op-ed: Coach’s Firing Won’t Solve College Football’s Deepest Problems
Maryland college football coach DJ Durkin was ultimately fired after the death of a player during practice – and findings that his players were bullied and abused by coaches and staff over the course his three-year tenure. However, his 11th hour ouster on Oct. 31 is evidence of how much the culture of college football still needs to change. This culture encourages players to ignore signs of physical or mental exhaustion and is present across the college football landscape, not just at Maryland.
Addressing Accelerated Genetic Aging in African Americans
With a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, UConn researchers will study several factors that potentially accelerate aging in the African American population to pave the way for future programs that could help improve health outcomes.
UConn’s Key Role in Ensuring Integrity of State Elections
Both before and after the November election, UConn’s Voting Technology Research Center will run forensic analyses on memory cards in the state’s voting equipment.
A Voice Through Voting
'When people stay home, so does their power. And that has consequences,' says Tanya Rhodes Smith, director of UConn's Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work.
Event Explores Tribal Conservation Traditions and Practices
The entire world should look to native practices of conservation in the fight against climate change, Ethel Branch, attorney general for the Navajo Nation, told the audience at the 2018 Connecticut Law Review symposium. “Long before the Puritans ever came to this land, native peoples were caring for and maintaining it with the lightest impact […]
Pre-Law Students Compete in Mock Trial Tournament at UConn Law
Pre-law students from around the Northeast converged on the UConn Law campus for the first New England Classic Mock Trial Tournament on Oct. 27 and 28, 2018. Students from Connecticut College, Quinnipiac University, Brandeis University, Wesleyan University, the University of Bridgeport, Amherst College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point competed in the tournament, […]
Neag School Hosts 4th Annual Educational Leadership Forum in Hartford
Alumni, students, faculty, and administrators from the Neag School of Education joined education professionals from across Connecticut last week for an evening of networking, followed by a panel discussion, at Hartford’s Spotlight Theatre. It was the fourth annual Educational Leadership Forum.
College organizes group to promote GMO science
While scientists say GMOs are safe, the public is skeptical, expressing concerns about the impacts their use may have on human and animal health and the environment. Members of a new unit in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources hope to be a resource to help bridge this divide by providing the public with accurate information on GMOs.