Schools & Colleges
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 […]
November 11, 2016 | Claire Hall
ANSYS Offers Free Training for Engineering Students
ANSYS recently hosted a training seminar for their simulation software at UConn.
November 10, 2016 | Eli Freund
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 […]
November 10, 2016 | Claire Hall
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.
November 10, 2016 | Lauren Woods
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.
November 10, 2016 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
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. […]
November 10, 2016 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
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.
November 10, 2016 | Kenneth Best
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.
November 10, 2016 | Josh Garvey
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. […]
November 9, 2016 | Claire Hall
Democracy and Disagreement
After a divisive presidential race, UConn philosopher Michael Lynch discusses what it might take for people to find common ground.
November 9, 2016 | Michael P. Lynch, Department of Philosophy