When Sophia Nnenna Ononye left her home country of Nigeria to pursue an education in the United States with hopes of becoming a physician, she never dreamt that her fascination with science would lead her so deep into the realm of pharmaceutical research. Now a graduate student in medicinal chemistry ...

Women face special challenges in trying to combine a military career with motherhood. Vigorous physical demands and the looming prospect of deployment pose special challenges for women in the military who plan on starting families. Graduate student Sarah Cote Hampson is researching the impact these challenges have on the decision-making ...

On the day after a nationally televised debate between President Barack Obama and then-presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, some 50 New Haven high school students sat in a Yale classroom and shared their thoughts about the event, then turned their attention to news articles offering the perspectives of the Chinese government ...

Susan Orlean Susan Orlean, staff writer at the New Yorker, described her life-long love of writing and her recent book, “Rin Tin Tin” before a roomful of students and professors at a Morse College Master’s Tea on Nov. 13. Orlean began by explaining her inspiration for her most recent book, which ...

Yale staff will once again have the chance to provide valuable feedback on the work culture at Yale via the 2012 Workplace Survey, taking place Nov. 12-26. University leaders are committed to making Yale a great place to work, and note that order to do this, hearing from staff is critical. “All ...

Scott McCarthy is studying the link between obesity and academic achievement. How school psychologists can help students prevent obesity and, in turn, achieve academic success is the focus of a study conducted by Neag School of Education researchers and published in the National Association of School Psychologists’ School Psychology Forum. Based on ...

Hours after Barack Obama won a second term as president of the United States, a panel of UConn experts convened to analyze what the results of the vote will mean for the country. In a panel moderated by Professor Jeremy Pressman, professors Charles Venator, Ronald Schurin, Shayla Nunnally, Vincent Moscardelli, and ...

Men’s head basketball coach Kevin Ollie ’95 (CLAS) coaches from the sidelines. He is looking for total effort from his team in practice as well as in games. The question was put after a practice to Kevin Ollie ’95 (CLAS), who enters his first season as head men’s basketball coach ...

Avinash Dongare, assistant professor of materials science, who joins UConn from North Carolina State, is one of eight new tenure-track professors brought in to the School of Engineering this year. As scientists across the country work to unlock the potential of new materials as part of President Obama’s Materials Genome ...

Fourteen months ago near the conclusion of an interview with UConn Magazine about coaching the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team, Geno Auriemma was discussing the elements needed for a team to make a championship run in the NCAA. “We don’t have a Maya Moore in the program,” the Hall of Fame coach of the ...

The Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation (CIPCI), an integral part of Bioscience Connecticut, officially opened today in Hartford. The Institute is a collaboration between the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. The Institute is based in a newly dedicated and completely redesigned facility, The ...

Tim Hunter'e2'80'99s path to the University of Connecticut wasn'e2'80'99t exactly a straight line, but sometimes the scenic route is the best way to get where you'e2'80'99re going.par par The head of the newly-created Department of Digital Media & Design began his career in the performing arts, before founding a cutting-edge experiential design ...

par par Yale College students taking a class on the history of disasters in America, taught by doctoral candidate Andy Horowitz, have a unique perspective on Sandy, and they are blogging their responses to the devastating storm drawing on knowledge they have gained from the class.par par In inviting his students to participate in ...

par Alpha Lambda Delta, a national honor society for first-year students, kicked-off a celebration of Halloween with Pumpkinfest 2012 held on Fairfield Way on Oct. 26.par par In addition to trying their hands at pumpkin decorating, those who stopped by had a chance to partake in delicious fall snacks and to participate in ...

Creative team includes stage director Hans Nieuwenhuis, musical directors'c2~Douglas Dickson'c2~&'c2~Timothy Shaindlinpar par par The'c2~Yale School of Music'c2~presents the rising stars of'c2~Yale Opera'c2~in two evenings of opera scenes onFriday and Saturday, November 2 and 3. Each evening will feature a different selection of scenes from popular operas by composers as diverse as Bizet, Sullivan, ...

par par When viewers around the globe tune in to CCTV America, the English-language version of the state-owned Chinese television network, for coverage of the U.S. presidential race on election night, one of the commentators they will see is Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale'e2'80'99s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and ...

Six individuals have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2012, to be conferred at the AYA Assembly LXXII in November. Inaugurated in 1952, the Yale Medal is the highest award presented by the AYA and is conferred solely to recognize and honor outstanding individual service to the University. Since its ...

Undergraduate students are rarely exposed to commercial research environments very early in their college careers. Thanks to the UConn-TIP Biotechnology Summer Research Intern Program, a new 10-week research program established by Associate Professor Caroline Dealy, three UConn students had the opportunity to work closely with startup biotechnology companies in Farmington ...