Schools & Colleges
Journalism Student Joins Today Team in Sochi
After two internships with NBC, Gabrielle Levesque '14 (CLAS) is in Russia with the Today show team covering the Winter Olympics.
The Immortal Pete Seeger
The folk singer and activist died last week but his memory will live on forever, says CLAS dean Jeremy Teitelbaum.
An Expanding Role for Nurse Practitioners
UConn's School of Nursing is helping prepare practitioners who will play a vital role in maximizing health care resources.
Theoretical Neuroscientist Ed Large Joins UConn Faculty
Large joined the Department of Psychology’s expanding cognitive science group in the fall.
Microbes and Methane
Molecular and cell biologist Kenneth Noll explains the process of methane production by microbes in woodland ponds.
Neag Alumna Uses Expertise in Workplace Politics to Write Compelling Fiction Debut
Those familiar with UConn’s Storrs campus won’t necessarily see familiar places or faces in “Shadow Campus,” a mystery thriller. Yet author Kathleen Kelley Reardon, a former UConn associate professor who in 1971 earned a BA from the Neag School, believes anyone familiar with the behind-the-scenes politics of academia will recognize some attributes of the story.
Guerreiras Project Founder Caitlin Fisher Speaks to Neag School Sport Management Students
Ethnographer and former professional women’s soccer player Caitlin Davis Fisher recently spoke to UConn’s Neag School of Education Sport Management students about the ability of athletics to promote gender equality.
From the Soccer Field to the Courtroom
Assistant U.S. Attorney Felice Duffy ’82 (CLAS), ’86 ED, ’91 Ph.D., who has found her way from a UConn soccer field to a federal courtroom, says prosecuting criminals is like playing team sports.
Neag Expert Makes Call to Action for Educators to Teach “The Psychology of Men and Boys”
A special section of articles put together by Neag School of Education Educational Psychology Professor James O’Neil (along with Neag alumnus Sara Renzulli and Neag doctoral student Bryce Crasper) is a call to action for more universities to offer courses on “Teaching the Psychology of Men”—an emerging, but often controversial, discipline.
Coventry Public Schools Partner with Neag School for “Technology in the Classroom” Initiative
The Coventry Public Schools and the Neag School have joined forces to discover new ways to integrate iPad technology into classroom learning, as well as to use their partnership to plan, implement, and assess both the process and the emerging impacts of this new area of technology integration.