Global Affairs

Roy Pietro, director of UConn’s Global Training and Development Institute (left), and Chad Turner, co-founder of Go Media (center), speak to students from North and Sub-Sahara Africa at a workshop on using the Internet. The students are among 40 participants in a five-week U.S. State Department funded program being hosted by UConn, to deepen their understanding of the USA while equipping them with social entrepreneurial skills to create sustainable solutions to problems in their communities and countries. The students, from left to right, are: Sofie Camara (Senegal); Rafika Mokhtari (Algeria); and Sohayeb Belguith (Tunisia). (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Helping African Students Become Agents of Social Change

Forty student leaders from North and Sub-Saharan Africa learned social entrepreneurship strategies at UConn this summer.

July 18, 2014 | David Bauman

Community Impact
Members of UConn's Underwater Sensor Network and the U.S. Naval Research Lab a sensor node from the back of the research vessel during a test in the Atlantic Sea in 2010. (Zheng Peng/UConn Photo)

Beneath the Arctic Polar Cap

As the Arctic polar cap melts at an astonishing rate, UConn’s UnderWater Sensor Network Lab is developing a wireless system to collect data in the region.

June 11, 2014 | William Weir, School of Engineering

The Serra Grande forest in northeastern Brazil has large plantation clearings where sugar cane has been grown for more than 100 years. A significant portion of this landscape is now being considered to undergo forest restoration under new Brazilian forest codes. (Photo by Adriano Gambarini)

Regenerating Tropical Forests

UConn biology professor Robin Chazdon is leading an international research project on tropical forest regeneration.

June 3, 2014 | Christine Buckley

Research & Discovery

The Ukraine Crisis: A Case of Déjà Vu?

A UConn alum who was a high-ranking Pentagon official when Russia invaded Georgia sees parallels with current events in Ukraine.

March 13, 2014 | Tom Breen

Alumni
Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias arrives at the inauguration ceremony of El Salvador's Presdient Mauricio Funes in San Salvador on June 1, 2009. Funes, the first leftist president elected in the country in 20 years, has said he wants to establish full diplomatic relations with Cuba, ending El Salvador's status as the last Latin American holdout to normalization with Havana. AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS (Photo credit should read Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images)

Oscar Arias to Give Human Rights Talk at UConn

Today's talk by the Nobel Peace Laureate will be live streamed.

March 6, 2014 | David Bauman

Studying Latin America At Home and Abroad

Latin American Studies courses and study abroad opportunities are helping Aaron Dion achieve his career goals.

February 25, 2014 | Samantha Ruggiero '14 (CLAS)

Journalism Student Joins Today Team in Sochi

After two internships with NBC, Gabrielle Levesque '14 (CLAS) is in Russia with the Today show team covering the Winter Olympics.

February 7, 2014 | Kenneth Best

Professor Anson Ma takes the Shinkansen (high-speed train) from Tokyo to Kyoto, during a five-day trip to Japan as part of the Young Scientist Exchange. (Photo courtesy of Anson Ma)

Young Scientist Exchange Takes UConn Researcher to Japan

Engineering professor Anson Ma recently took part in a prestigious U.S.-Japan science diplomacy-style program.

January 14, 2014 | Nan Cooper, School of Engineering

Research & Discovery
Mazhar Khan, professor of pathobiology, on Dec. 4, 2013. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Bird Flu Research Earns Professor Accolades in China

Pathobiologist Mazhar Khan has developed diagnostic tests and vaccines to help prevent the spread of avian influenza.

December 17, 2013 | Sheila Foran

Community Impact Research & Discovery
Carl D'Oleo-Lundgren '14 (CLAS) at the School of Business cafe on May 10, 2013. (Frank Dahlmeyer '10 (CLAS)/UConn Photo)

Groomed to Guide World Diplomacy

Carl D’Oleo-Lundgren ’14 (CLAS) has found numerous opportunities at UConn to help prepare him for a diplomatic career.

December 10, 2013 | Lauren Lalancette