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New Rowing Shell Named for Psychology Professor
The women’s rowing team has named its new racing shell after a beloved professor.
April 6, 2009 | Combined Reports
Residential Learning Communities Help Foster Student Interests
More and more students at UConn are seeking residential learning communities that will pique their intellectual and social interests, whether it’s engineering students interested in jazz, international students hoping to fit into American culture, or students passionate about issues of social justice.
April 6, 2009 | Karen A. Grava
Henry Krisch, Politics in Germany
Henry Krisch, Politics in Germany (CQ Press, 2008) Krisch is a professor emeritus of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He co-wrote the book with M. Donald Hancock of Vanderbilt University.
April 6, 2009 | Combined Reports
Disabilities No Barrier to Campus Life
Nicholas Rotondo ’09 (CLAS) barely made it out of high school. Diagnosed in elementary school with a learning disability that impacts memory retrieval, he believed he could not do well academically. “I was in a rut. I had no confidence,” says the senior history major from Groveland, Mass. “If someone told me in high school […]
April 1, 2009 | Mary Howard
Maria Gordina, Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize
Maria Gordina, associate professor of mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will spend a semester in residence at Cornell University as the winner of the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize awarded by Cornell and the Association for Women in Mathematics.
March 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Alternative Break on Reservation Expands Students’ Horizons
Daniel Lupacchino has always been drawn to Native American culture. When he heard that there was a chance to spend spring break working on an Indian reservation, he signed up right away.
March 30, 2009 | Sherry Fisher
Remote Sensing Can Provide Evidence of Genocide, Says Grad Student
Prosecutions for major human rights violations have increased in recent years, since the establishment of the International Criminal Court. But the most heinous crime of all – the systematic elimination of an entire race or ethnic group – has been difficult to prove. A UConn graduate student is developing a new form of evidence that would bolster the case against perpetrators of genocide.
March 30, 2009 | Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu
Tissue Regeneration Research Team Moves to Health Center
Tissue regeneration research at the Health Center has received a substantial boost in manpower with the arrival of a team of researchers from the University of Virginia.
March 30, 2009 | Kristina Goodnough
Shelters Play Key Role in Helping Domestic Violence Victims, Study Finds
Researchers in the UConn School of Social Work’s Institute for Violence Prevention and Reduction conduct the nation's first multi-state study of the effectiveness of domestic violence shelters and find that such shelters in Connecticut, as well as nationally, play a key role in helping protect victims and in providing important services.
March 30, 2009 | Colin Poitras
U.S. Patents Granted to the University,
July-December 2008
The list of patents received was supplied by the University’s Center for Science and Technology Commercialization. Makriyannis, Alexandros; Liu, Qian; Thotapally, Rajesh Pyrazole Analogs Acting on Cannabinoid Receptors Patent number 7,393,842, issued 7/1/08 Taylor, Geoff; Cai, Jianhong; Upp, Daniel Integrated Circuit for Programmable Optical Delay Patent number 7,409,120, issued 8/5/08 Javidi, Bahram; Esmail, Ahouzi; Zhang, […]
March 30, 2009 | Combined Reports