Global Affairs

Refugees fleeing Cambodia in 1989. The Khmer Rouge genocide and Vietnamese occupation from 1979 to 1989 forced many Cambodians to flee to neighboring countries.(Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Resilience in the Face of Evil

Social work professor Megan Berthold says people who survive human rights violations and trauma often have enormous strength and resilience.

Britney Reynolds at Blue State Coffee in Hartford. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Student Perspective: Britney Reynolds ’19 (BUS, CLAS)

A new U.S. citizen, this psychology and business major still contributes to a scholarship she established in her name in Jamaica.

Brian Aguilera '19 (CLAS) and Mallika Ghosh, assistant professor of cell biology, with microscope images of tunneling nanotubes at UConn Health. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

International Student Embraces Research Opportunities at UConn

Colombia native Brian Aguilera '19 (CLAS) was one of a select group taking part in a new research program for undergraduates to work with faculty at UConn Health.

Steven Wisensale, professor of human development and family studies, watches a baseball game in Japan. (Chris Moore for UConn)

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.

Photo by Dr. Robert Fuller of UConn Health showing the destruction he is witnessing in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria.

ER Doctor in Puerto Rico Reports on Hurricane Devastation

'Every single person is affected,' says UConn Health's Dr. Robert Fuller.

A Panel from the Marvel Comics series ‘The ’Nam.’

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.

With an IDEA grant, Eva Hu ’18 (SFA), an undergraduate from China, is applying skills she learned at UConn to translate the traditional calligraphy of her homeland into 3-D sculpture. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Studio Art Major Draws Inspiration from Chinese Culture

An undergraduate from China is applying skills she learned at UConn to translate the traditional calligraphy of her native culture into 3-D sculpture.

Page of a dictionary, with focus on the word 'atheism.' (Getty Images)

Why (We Think) Atheists are More Likely to be Serial Killers

There is a global moral prejudice against people who do not believe in a god or gods, according to a new study by UConn anthropologist Dmitris Xygalatas and colleagues.

This illustration from 1879 depicts the reaction of a group of indigenous people in South America when the lunar eclipse Christopher Columbus predicted actually happened on Feb. 29, 1504. (Camille Flammarion (Astronomie Populaire 1879) via Wikimedia Commons)

Eclipse as Omen: The Human Response

A UConn philosophy professor who has studied early astronomy across cultures discusses how humans have interpreted eclipses in history.

A participant in the River House Baseball Reminiscence Program and her son cheer on the Mets at Citi Field. (Kenneth Best/UConn Photo)

Talking Baseball Assists Aging Adults with Dementia

A UConn researcher has found that using baseball as the focus of reminiscence therapy for elderly adults with dementia can spark memories and prompt an emotional response.