Global Affairs

Human Rights Faculty Spotlight - César Abadía-Barrero

HRI Faculty Spotlight, César Abadía-Barrero

"What does it mean to heal?"

EWB in Peru

UConn Engineers Without Borders Use Skillsets to Help Communities Find Longterm Solutions to Worldwide Problems

On March 24, UConn Engineers Without Borders will host the 2024 Northeast Regional Conference, offering poster and technical sessions, professional development, and hands-on trainings

The fall 2023 recipients of Gilman scholarships (front, from left) Suki Zheng, Michelle Eweka, (back, from left) Moera Kamimura, Alexandra Torres Munoz, Avery Lyn Sparks and Yanni Tsiranides pose for a photo on the Student Union lawn

Seven UConn Students Earn Prestigious Gilman Scholarships

The program encourages travel to diverse locations, along with intensive language study and internship experiences

The city of Lviv, located in western Ukraine

Conflict and Commerce: A Journey to Support Founders in Ukraine

'In newly liberated cities, the business returns within days. The cities recover their shops, their supply chains, and people return to work'

A child peeks through a hole in a huge European Union flag during a demonstration.

Big Changes for Big Business as EU Human Rights Law Nears Enactment

If it works as intended, the EU law could be transformative in protecting human rights, including worker health and safety and workers’ free speech, around the world

Victoria Forbes MD

UConn Health Professor Victoria Forbes Nominated for International Teaching Award

The Teaching Excellence award offers early to mid-career faculty a valuable opportunity to develop new collaborations, to work internationally, and to share their pedagogical expertise with others.

Adam Wilson's hand rests on a clipboard with field notes, holding a plant sprig, against a backdrop of brush flora.

UConn Researchers Join NASA-Funded International Biodiversity Monitoring Project

The BioSCape project is NASA’s first-ever biodiversity field program combining airborne spectroscopy, LIDAR, and field observations across South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, home to two global biodiversity hotspots rich with flora and marine species found nowhere else on Earth

Drone photo of the Student Union Mall , Wilbur Cross, and sunset.

11 UConn Students Named Gilman Scholars

Gilman Scholars are required to complete a service project upon their return from studying abroad in their campus or home community, with the goal of sharing the value of participation in study abroad and promoting the scholarship to prospective students.

UConn professor Sara Harkness, top right, and her class of students in Spring 2023. On the monitor, two students from Radboud University in the Netherlands join class remotely as part of a virtual study exchange.

New CHHD, Global Affairs Program Offers Graduate Students Virtual Study Exchange

The virtual study abroad experience removes the financial and travel burdens of traditional study abroad programs

Sona Tatoyan, who's been in residence at UConn the last two weeks workshopping her multimedia puppetry show "Azad," holds her great-great-grandfather’s Karagöz puppets

Northeast Human Rights Film Festival to Showcase Documentaries, Rally Audiences to Action

The inaugural film festival aims to connect filmmakers, human rights advocates, and community groups with the common goal of sustained, transformational impact