Schools & Colleges
Neag Student Learns First-hand About Service to the Community
During the spring semester of her freshman year, Neag School of Education student Sarah Harris enrolled in an interdisciplinary “service-learning” honors seminar focused on migrant workers in the state of Connecticut. The course, which examined the challenges faced by migrant workers and immigrants in the state, provided Harris and her classmates opportunities to listen to experts in […]
Dr. Jason Stephens Publishes Book on “Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity”
Recent cheating scandals in schools across the U.S. have generated alarming national headlines. Connecticut’s own Waterbury Hopeville School is under investigation for suspected educational misconduct during this year’s state mastery test. Dr. Jason Stephens, an associate professor in the Neag School of Education‘s Department of Educational Psychology, addressed academic integrity issues like these reported cases and […]
Reis Appointed to New Endowed Chair in Educational Psychology
The first person to hold the Letitia Neag Morgan Chair for Educational Psychology, Sally Reis is an internationally recognized scholar and a champion of students with special needs.
Business School Grads Finding Jobs Despite Recession
Spurred on by a new team and new ideas, the Business School's career center is building a record of success helping UConn grads land jobs.
Study Targets Pharmaceutical Drug Impacts on Rivers
It has become customary for millions of Americans to consume both prescription and over-the-counter drugs with regularity. Unfortunately, this habit comes with adverse effects to our environment.
EPA Grant to Support EWB Work in Nicaragua
Dr. Marisa Chrysochoou, an assistant professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and two undergraduate members of the UConn chapter of Engineers Without Borders, received $15,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to research indigenous solutions for stabilizing a chronically washed out roadway connecting the impoverished shantytown community of la Prusia, Nicaragua with the nearby historic city of Granada.
BRIDGE: Preparing for Academic Success
The legacy of the School of Engineering's annual summer BRIDGE program, offered for accepted freshmen who are designated as underrepresented populations in engineering, is best understood through the lasting relationships BRIDGE students form among their peers and among their tutors.
Materials Science Teams Score Honors
Three interdisciplinary teams won honors at the Materials Science & Technology 2011 conference for their photographic images of a variety of natural and manufactured phenomena taken using electron and atomic force microscopes.
ROTC Cadet Palmer Receives Meritorious Achievement Award
In September, Mechanical Engineering senior and ROTC Cadet Douglas Palmer was awarded the Army Achievement Medal for Meritorious Achievement.
UConn’s smallTalk Top Pick at Preliminary Innovation Event
On October 20, a consortium of universities staged a first-ever multi-institutional student innovation poster competition on the campus of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) in conjunction with the October Innovation Connection networking function.