Global Cultures & Perspectives

A woman with long hair and dressed in a brown sundress poses in an ornate French palace with a crowd of tourists around her.

Solo Travel Around Europe Gives UConn Senior BOLD Experience

Her takeaways will be the subject of an interactive magazine the DMD student is creating for other Black women thinking of studying abroad or following in her travel footprint

Cows on Horsebarn Hill

Measuring Milk’s Carbon Footprint

This study demonstrated that using farm-specific data helps more accurately measure the environmental impact of creating and delivering milk

Lynna Vo poses outside while holding the Vietnamese flag in Vietnam.

A First-Time Teaching Assignment Like No Other: Vietnam

Neag School alumna Lynna Vo ’24 (ED), ’25 (MA) completes Fulbright year, teaching university and elementary students

group photo in dental clinic

Lessons from Liberia

Two second-year UConn dental students reflect on their work in Liberia over the summer

A group of researchers of various ages sits on the steps outside a UConn building

Supporting Community Health from New Haven to Nepal

UConn Shrestha Lab pioneers digital care solutions for mental health, substance use, and HIV prevention

UConn entryway sign with purple flowers on the corner of North Eagleville Road

UConn Faculty Named Fulbright Scholars and Specialists

Fulbright Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals teaching or conducting research in affiliation with institutes abroad. The Fulbright Specialist program deploys highly qualified American academics and professionals to share their expertise and strengthen institutions overseas

A zoo keeper feeding a howler monkey

New Global Early Warning System Forecasts Biodiversity Exposure to Extreme Heat

'With El Niño expected to occur this summer, we expect another year of extreme threats to biodiversity'

People wearing the traditional garments of members of different religious faiths sit together during an interfaith prayer service.

A Shared Mourning Ritual Helped an American Soldier and an Iraqi Interpreter Find Common Ground

When people interact directly, they have an opportunity to form friendships and see each other as individuals

Sunset on campus with spring blooms and a sundial

UConn Students Earn Gilman Scholarships

22 UConn students have earned Gilman awards in the last two cohorts for a total of more than $75,000 in scholarship funding

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Wow! UConn English Professor Earns Guggenheim to Work on Next Book of Poetry

V. Penelope Pelizzon is one of 223 individuals worldwide, and the only from UConn, named to the 101st class by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation