College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Coveted Class: Baseball and Society: Politics, Economics, Race, and Gender
Human development and family studies professor Steven Wisensale has designed a curriculum about baseball that isn’t a softball.
Holster Scholars Present on Topics from Cancer to Plastic to Aging
Eight ambitious students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering conducted research that they began planning in their freshman year at UConn.
Our Monuments to Inequality
Why today’s America is much like that of the late 1800s, according to Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair of American History, and author of the prize-winning book, 'The Slave’s Cause.'
Student-Athlete Strong: Ericka Randazzo
'Being a Husky teaches you how to be a better person – not just on campus, but for the rest of your life,' says Randazzo, a student in the Special Program in Medicine as well as an athlete on the Women's Track team.
Op-ed: Comics Captured America’s Growing Ambivalence about the Vietnam War
The director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute says Vietnam War-era comics are a window into how people were interpreting events at the time.
One-third of Parasites May Become Extinct in Our Lifetime
Admittedly, parasites—tapeworms, roundworms, ticks, lice, fleas and other pests—have a bad reputation. But they play an important role in the ecosystem.
Study: Racism Rooted in Small Things People Say and Do
New study looks at prejudicial attitudes toward blacks among undergraduates at a university in the South.
Super PACs ‘Based on Ideology Rather than Business’
Super PACs created to influence presidential and congressional election campaigns are primarily associated with ideological and issue-based causes rather than businesses, say UConn researchers.
Beckman Scholars Program Prepares Research Leaders
The national scholarship program provides immersive research experiences to outstanding undergraduates majoring in the biological sciences or chemistry.
Synthesizing Pure Graphene, a ‘Miracle Material’
UConn chemistry professor Doug Adamson has found an inexpensive way to manufacture the pristine form of this substance, which is stronger than steel and thinner than a human hair.