Schools & Colleges
Dr. Fan Lands CAREER Award
Antibodies -- the specialized proteins responsible for identifying and routing out disease -- are the subject of a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development grant awarded to Dr. Tai-Hsi Fan, an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Engineering has a New Website!
After months of planning, reconfiguring and revamping our electronic home, the School of Engineering officially launched its new website (www.engr.uconn.edu) to coincide with the start of national Engineers Week.
Robust Design Workshop to be Offered
The Electrical & Computer Engineering department will team with UConn's Center for Continuing Studies (CCS) to offer an intensive one-week residential workshop on Robust Design. The certificate program will take place at the Merlin D. Bishop Center on the Storrs campus from April 26-30, 2010.
Spotlight on Faculty: Sung-Yeul Park
In the fall of 2009, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2) welcomed Dr. Sung-Yeul Park as an assistant professor. Dr. Park's current research addresses vital issues pertaining to energy, including renewable energy power conditioning systems, utility grid integration, and energy storage, but this was not always his primary area of interest.
Gifted Ed in the U.S.: A Case of Bright Child Neglect
The nation is failing its 3 million brightest students with dramatically uneven funding, policies and oversight of gifted education at the state and local levels, a Neag School of Education team found in a recent survey representing 47 states. Del Siegle and Catherine Little, associate professors in gifted education at Neag, conducted the research with […]
Magnet Schools Provide Academic and Social Benefits, Study Reports
Both white and minority children in Connecticut’s magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in research commissioned by the state. Cobb, associate professor of […]
Neag School Tops in Northeast
The Neag School of Education continued its dominance as the No. 1 public school of education in the Northeast, according to the 2011 annual review of the best U.S. graduate schools announced in April by the U.S. News and World Report. U.S. News ranked the Neag School 31st among 279 private and public education schools surveyed. In specialty […]
A Higher Ed Guide for Students with Disabilities
It will come as no surprise to any college student (or parent of one) that achieving success in higher education starts with the right preparation during the K-12 years. But for students with disabilities, postsecondary education presents an additional set of challenges, though they too can be met with the right strategies in place. In […]
Swaminathan Honored by Research Profession
Hariharan Swaminathan, head of the Department of Educational Psychology at the Neag School of Education and a renowned research expert in his field of educational measurement, has been selected as a 2010 Fellow by the American Educational Research Association. Swaminathan, who has co-written two books on item response theory, was honored with 66 other fellows at AERA’s […]
Faculty Profile: Alexander Agrios
Dr. Alexander Agrios wants to build a better solar cell. "Dye-sensitized solar cells offer a radically different way to collect solar energy compared to silicon-based solar cells -- a major advantage being that they are produced using less expensive materials," he says.