Schools & Colleges
Book Provides Strategies for Inspiring Underachieving Students
Del Siegle’s book “The Underachieving Gifted Child: Recognizing, Understanding, and Reversing Underachievement” provides educators and parents with a comprehensive overview of why bright students may underachieve, as well as how teachers can make lessons more engaging. Written in straightforward, easy-to understand language, the book is available in paperback and electronic form.
Neag Professor Brings Rehabilitation Psychology Expertise to Turkey
Neag School of Education Professor Orv Karan, PhD, is using his more than 40 years of experience as a rehabilitation psychology and special education specialist to help medical, educational and social service providers in Turkey successfully transition youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities into the community.
New Hires Unleash Opportunity for Leading Growth and Change
The Neag School of Education is now home to 17 new faculty—a mix of junior and senior faculty and recognized across the nation as top scholars in the field of education and workforce development. Combining the Neag School ‘s outstanding new faculty hires with the school’s already nationally recognized faculty, and the possibilities of what the Neag School will accomplish with respect to meaningful, nationwide education reform are endless.
Neag Adult Learning Expert Puts Focus on Farms
As the work of Associate Professor Sandy Bell (’94 Ph.D. in adult and vocational education) well illustrates, effective adult learning just doesn’t occur in classrooms. It occurs in barns, corn fields and even on East African groundnut farms.
Neag School of Education’s Professor to Examine Teacher Evaluation in New Haven
Morgaen Donaldson, an assistant professor of educational leadership at UConn’s Neag School of Education, has been awarded a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education (NAEd) to study how incorporating student academic achievement in teachers’ performance evaluations affects teachers’ motivation and work behaviors. Donaldson will focus her research and data gathering on New Haven’s large and […]
Ecology Graduate Student Earns Switzer Fellowship for Work at Earth’s Extremes
Ph.D. student Lily Lewis studies mosses in the Alaskan wilderness and Chile's sub-Antarctic mountains.
Gordon Named Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor at South African University
UConn philosophy professor Lewis Gordon is the second internationally renowned scholar to be honored in this way.
Suzanne Saunders Taylor: A Leader and Advocate for Women
Forty years ago, Suzanne Taylor was one of the key players in getting the Commission on the Status of Women launched in Connecticut. Just a few years prior, in the summer of 1970, she completed a Ph.D. at UConn and at the same time became divorced and responsible for two children, ages 10 and 12. […]
Undergraduate Student Attends Fulbright Summer Institute
Alexandria Bottelsen '16 (CLAS) was one of just four U.S. students in the highly competitive summer program at King's College, London this year.
Philosopher Joins ACLU in Phone Records Monitoring Suit
Philosophy professor Michael Lynch has filed a friend of the court brief in the NSA legal action.