Schools & Colleges
Know Thyself: The Philosophy of Self-Knowledge
Dating back to an ancient Greek inscription, the injunction to 'know thyself' has encouraged people to engage in a search for self-understanding. Philosophy professor Mitchell Green discusses its history and relevance to the present.
UConn Team to Be Featured on Season 3 of Entrepreneurship-Focused PBS Show
A four-person team, featuring University of Connecticut Engineering and Business students, will test their luck on the PBS show “Make48.” Make48, a nationwide invention competition documentary series, captures the journey of brilliant young innovators looking to create the next great consumer product from scratch.
Op-ed: Rethink Peer Tutoring by Gifted Learners
Catherine Little of UConn's Neag School of Education says the 'help so-and-so' strategy to keep gifted students busy in the classroom often has limited benefit to the peer tutors.
Targeting the Flu with a Novel Antiviral Drug
UConn molecular and cell biologist, Jim Cole, formed a startup to develop a novel potential treatment for the flu.
Alum’s E-Commerce Company Ensures Online Orders Arrive On Time and Intact
Peyton Zamani learned from his two degrees and multiple work experiences in setting up his own successful company.
Data Privacy Training for European Union Regs at Stamford
UConn is offering new training courses to prepare companies to comply with European Union data privacy regulations that went into effect this past May.
Real Talk: Applying Computer Learning Models to Human Speech Recognition
UConn professor of psychological science, James Magnuson, has received more than $600K from the National Science Foundation to address a longstanding problem with research on speech perception and spoken word recognition.
UConn Health Awards and Honors
Read the latest ways the excellence of UConn Health, UConn School of Medicine, and UConn School of Dental Medicine physicians are being recognized around the nation and world.
$2M NIH Grant to Study Genetic Mechanisms of Inherited Heart Muscle Disorders
Dr. John Travis Hinson, a joint faculty member at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine has received more than $2 million from the NIH to study a serious and often fatal heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Found in Translation
Peter Constantine, director of UConn's Literary Translation Program, says translation opens up the windows and doors to the world.