Schools & Colleges

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Need for Compliance Officers Skyrockets

School of Business Partners with UConn Law to Offer New Certificate in Corporate/Regulatory Compliance The University of Connecticut School of Business and the School of Law have partnered to create a certificate program in Corporate and Regulatory Compliance in response to the business community’s growing demand for risk-avoidance expertise. “This is one of the fastest-growing […]

ANSYS Offers Free Training for Engineering Students

ANSYS recently hosted a training seminar for their simulation software at UConn.

22 veterans graduated from the School of Business; Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a 10-day program that gives veterans the knowledge, skills and helping hand they need to create their own businesses. (Lisa Ducharme)

EBV Graduates 22 Veteran Entrepreneurs

‘I Can’t Believe How Lucky I Am!’ Veterans’ Plans Include Cookie Business, Animal Shelter, Counseling Center U.S. Army Lt. Col. Damone “D” Garner has a secret weapon for his post-military career. Hailing from a family that boasts three generations of talented bakers, Garner has a collection of secret, family-cookie recipes that will make other bakers […]

The annual Great American Smokeout is Nov. 17 to urge smokers to quit smoking and reduce their chance of developing lung cancer and other tobacco-related diseases. (Photo: American Cancer Society).

Are You Ready to Quit? Join the Great American Smokeout Nov. 17

This year's Great American Smokeout is Thursday, Nov. 17. UConn Health's Wellness and Smoking Cessation Program experts share 5 key steps to help you or a loved-one successfully kick the smoking habit.

An Extra Hour of Sleep, Now What?

The return to standard time comes with more than just an extra hour of sleep that first weekend. For about 500,000 Americans, the earlier sunset is more than bothersome; it’s downright depressing.

Military Service Helps Prepare Med Student for Health Care Career

Veterans Day has a special meaning to second-year medical student Greg de Gruchy. He’s among a relative few in the UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine for whom this day of remembrance is intended—himself a veteran who went on deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan during his four years of service with the U.S. […]

A panel of political science and public policy faculty discuss the results of Election 2016. Panelists are: from left, Evelyn Simien, Paul Herrnson, Jennifer Dineen, and Sam Best. The moderator was Thomas Hayes. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Polling Process Produced Flawed Election Predictions, Experts Say

The disappearance of landline phones, which provided information on where voters lived, was one of the factors affecting the accuracy of the polls, UConn experts said.

Thomas Underwood '18 (ENG) at the Castleman Building on Nov. 3, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Engineering Was Top Choice for Navy Veteran

Veteran and current UConn student Thomas Underwood explains why he turned to the School of Engineering after six years of service.

From left: Alexis Flowers, Southern University of Baton Rouge; Tshepo Makobela, University of Johannesburg; Alison Witschonke, University of Vermont; and Laura Van Eeckhoudt, Belmont University. (UConn photo)

Brainstorming, Friendships & Mansions

CIBER Challenge Gives Students an Advantage in the Workplace Career advice from GE executives, a scavenger hunt at Newport, R.I.’s famous mansions, a brain-teaser on global transportation, and a chance to meet business students from around the globe highlighted the 2016 UConn CIBER Case Challenge. The annual event drew 48 undergraduate students, from the U.S. […]

Couple engaged in a heated discussion. (momentimages/Getty Images)

Democracy and Disagreement

After a divisive presidential race, UConn philosopher Michael Lynch discusses what it might take for people to find common ground.