Ancient Grave Unearthed in Israel

A 12,000 year-old grave unearthed in the Middle East contains the remains of a woman who provides some of the world’s earliest evidence of a religious practitioner, according to a recently published study by researchers from Israel and the University of Connecticut.

Pharmacy Professor Holds Students to High Expectations

Robin Bogner wasn’t planning a career in academics. “I thought I’d climb the corporate ladder in the pharmaceutics industry,” says Bogner, an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences. As an undergraduate, she had worked for four summers at Johnson & Johnson, and her heart was set on becoming an industrial leader. Once she got to graduate school at the University of Iowa, however, something happened.

English Professor’s Memoir Captures her Life, Work
in Essays

As a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English and the University’s first Aetna Chair of Writing, Lynn Z. Bloom has been a pioneer in the field of composition studies for more than 20 years.

Endangered Language is Topic of Humanities Fellow’s Research

Some 250 years ago, the Itelmen language spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian far east was in decline and was expected to survive no more than a generation. It proved more tenacious than predicted, but it is now on the verge of extinction. Jonathan Bobaljik, professor of linguistics, has spent a decade and […]