Works By ‘Ubiquitous’ International Artist to be Showcased at Yale School of Art
Posted On Monday, January 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: draftsman, Katz x Katz, painter, postwar American art, printmaker, Skowhegan School, Yale School of Art
“Katz x Katz” — a celebration of acclaimed artist Alex Katz’s six-decade-long career — will open at the Yale School of Art this month.
An overview of the artist’s career as a painter, draftsman, and printmaker, the exhibition features 70 pieces from the artist’s personal collection, including examples of Katz’s signature ...
Transfer Student Information Session Jan. 10
Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Echlin Center, Jan 10, Quinnipiac, transfer applicants, Transfer student, Undergraduate Admissions Office
The University will host an information session on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 10 a.m. The session is designed especially for students interested in transferring to Quinnipiac from another college or university.
The hour-long session will take place in the Undergraduate Admissions Office in the Echlin Center. View map
Transfer admissions staff will ...
A Message from President Herbst on the Newtown Tragedy
Posted On Saturday, December 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Connecticut, educational psychology, Newtown, School Psychologists, senseless violence
We have all watched the astonishing horror that unfolded Friday in Newtown, Connecticut. I know that we as a community – like all communities across the nation – ache for those who died, most especially the children, and for all the families who have now lost someone they loved dearly ...
After-School Exercise And Nutrition Program Reaches Out to Urban School Children
Posted On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Department of Extension, Department of Kinesiology, Natural Resources, Nutrition Program, Urban School Children
CT FANs in Motion, a collaborative effort between the Department of Extension in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Department of Kinesiology in the Neag School of Education, has been funded through a $2.5 million competitive grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
The grant is ...
Faculty Embraces Plan To Expand Online Education
Posted On Monday, December 24, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Bloom expressed, Diana E.E. Kleiner, MOOCs, Online Education, Yale Summer Session program
Yale will expand its Summer Session courses for credit online and initiate a pilot of online courses during the regular semester, as the first steps in implementing recommendations from the Report of the Dean’s Committee on Online Education, which was reviewed by the Yale College Faculty this month.
“There was widespread interest in ...
Academic Couple to Join UConn Faculty From Temple
Posted On Sunday, December 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Academic Couple, Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis Gordon, Temple, UConn Faculty
Talk with Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon and you will find quickly that relationships matter. Not just between two scholars who pursue different disciplines and find common ground for collaboration, but in the world at large.
The two scholars, who are married, will arrive in Storrs next summer from Temple ...
Engineer Has NSF EAGER Award to Study Nanoparticle Flow in Bloodstream
Posted On Sunday, December 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Anson Ma, Chemical Engineering, nanoparticles, Polymer Program
Anson Ma, an assistant professor of chemical engineering with a dual appointment in the Institute of Materials Science Polymer Program, has received a National Science Foundation Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award. The two-year grant supports his research aimed at understanding how nanoparticles flow in the bloodstream, with ...
New Lectureship Created in The Name of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Posted On Saturday, December 15, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: African-American studies, Henry Louis Gates Jr., lectureship, Yale
What do you give one of the most celebrated professors of African-American studies for a 60th birthday present? For philanthropists Daniel ’51 and Joanna Rose, the answer was simple: create a lectureship at Yale in the name of their friend, Yale alumnus Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. ’73.
The Henry Louis ...
