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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
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 […]
September 2, 2008 | Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu