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Health Center Program Uses Holistic Approach to Ease Pain
A new initiative is underway at the John Dempsey Hospital to meet the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of patients who are seriously ill or coping with persistent pain.
January 26, 2009 | Maureen McGuire
New Online Site Connects Colleagues for Carpooling to Storrs Campus
Two years ago, Scott Nixon, a web developer in the Department of Human Resources, decided to join forces with a friend and carpool to work from Plainville, about an hour’s drive from Storrs. Both Nixon and his colleague saved money just as gas prices were beginning to soar, and the partnership gave each of them somebody to talk to during the ride.
January 26, 2009 | Richard Veilleux
Law Professor One of Nation’s Leading Experts on Subprime Lending
When Patricia McCoy was a law professor in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1990s, each day she drove through a neighborhood called Hough that was changing before her eyes. Once stricken by poverty and riots and long-sullied by empty storefronts and ramshackle homes, it began undergoing a transformation, thanks to new public and private investment in the area.
January 26, 2009 | Michael Kirk
Safety Comes First for UConn’s Director of Scientific Diving
His job has a simple bottom line. Or rather, line to the bottom. Everyone who goes down must come up. But for Jeffrey Godfrey, director of scientific diving for UConn’s marine sciences programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, getting to the bottom and back up again requires planning, planning, and more planning. Training and more training. Testing and re-testing of equipment. And even calling the dive off when things don’t look exactly right.
December 8, 2008 | Karen A. Grava
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.
December 8, 2008 | Michael Kirk
Jewish/Christian Interfaith Marriages Focus of Sociologist’s Study
Professor Arnold Dashefsky, head of the University’s Judaic Studies program, and a team of researchers interviewed nearly 150 mixed Jewish/Christian couples throughout the nation for a study on interfaith marriage in the U.S.
December 8, 2008 | Michael Kirk
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.
October 20, 2008 | Sherry Fisher
Communications Professor Studies Dark Side of Relationships
Melissa Tafoya has always been drawn to the dark side of human behavior. “I study the real-life stuff – infidelity, jealousy, aggression, and conflict,” says Tafoya, an assistant professor of communication sciences.
September 29, 2008 | Sherry Fisher
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.
September 22, 2008 | Colin Poitras
Nursing Professor Develops Medication Management Software
Before tablet computers were on the market, Patricia Neafsey envisioned a user-friendly software program for older adults to learn more about their medications and potentially dangerous drug interactions. Neafsey, a professor of nursing and a principal investigator at UConn’s Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, began by developing the program for individuals with hypertension. “Patients […]
September 15, 2008 | Beth Krane