Schools & Colleges
Dr. Elsaesser Recipient of Research Funding
UConn Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has announced the recipients of the Spring 2017 Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF) Awards. Dr. Caitlin Elsaesser was awarded funds to conduct research on “Advancing Knowledge of the Consequences of Youth Violence Exposure”. The SFF program offers support to faculty research, scholarly activities, creative works, and interdisciplinary initiatives. […]
Dr. Garran’s 2nd Edition of Racism in the United States Published
The second edition of Racism in the United States – Implications for the Helping Professions (Springer) by Joshua Miller, PhD and Ann Marie Garran, PhD was recently published. This comprehensive text thoroughly reviews the theories and history of racism, the sociology of and the psychology of racism, intergroup relations and intergroup conflict, and how racism is manifested institutionally, […]
UConn Group to Spend Spring Break Assisting Asylum Applicants
A team led by UConn Law's Asylum and Human Rights Clinic will spend the break at a detention facility offering free legal help and social work assessments and support to female detainees from Central America.
Business and Human Rights
When a United Nations committee met last month in Geneva, Switzerland, to prepare new guidance on business and human rights, six UConn faculty offered suggestions to bolster the international treaty.
On EIR and Conducting: an Interview with Professor Harvey Felder
We sat down with Associate Professor Harvey Felder, the Director of Orchestral Studies and Conductor of the UConn Chamber Orchestra, as he discussed the recently initiated UConn Ensemble in Residence (EIR) Program. With the upcoming Ensemble in Residence performance on March 8th at 7pm in the Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT, the string orchestra is […]
Conference Explores Local Solutions for Global Climate Change
A sold-out crowd of academics, environmentalists, lawyers, planners, architects, and students assembled March 3, 2017, for the 22nd Gallivan Conference, “Municipal Climate Policy: Local Solutions for a Global Problem at UConn School of Law. The conference, convened by Professor Sara Bronin, the Thomas F. Gallivan Chair in Real Property Law and cosponsored by the law school’s […]
Weight-Based Stigma an Obstacle to Sustaining Weight Loss
A new study from the UConn Rudd Center suggests that internalized negative weight-based attitudes in particular undermine personal efforts to sustain weight loss.
Accounting for Extreme Rainfall
A UConn scientist has confirmed that more intense rainstorms will likely continue as temperatures rise.
Show Us the Numbers!
Financial accounting may play an even more important role than previously recognized when it comes to corporate acquisition decisions, according to a UConn professor.
Accounting for Extreme Rainfall
A UConn climate scientist says more intense and frequent rainfall is coming, with no drop-off.