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Congratulations to Junya Wu for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled:  Using Excess Heat Factor (EHF) to deepen understanding of heatwaves in the U.S.

Congratulations to Moataz Kilany for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled:  Land Use / Land Cover Classification Optimization Using Swarm Algorithms.

Ailing Jin, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut, won first place in the Lightning Talk Competition at the UCGIS 2023 Symposium.  The event, which took place from June 6 to June 9, was held at Yale University this year.  The UCGIS is recognized as one of the largest […]

Congratulations to Nat Trumbull (Geography), Carol Atkinson-Palombo (Geography), Syma Ebben (Agricultural and Resource Economics), Oksan Bayulgen (Political Science), and Lyle Scruggs (Political Science) on being awarded a Provost Research Excellence Award for their project titled:  Offshore wind blows ashore: Investigating the social impacts and perceptions of offshore wind projects in New England. This work is […]

Dr. Debs Ghosh, associate professor in the Department of Geography in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) and principal investigator at UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), received a grant through the American Cancer Society to study multi-level drivers of cancer disparities impacting African Americans.  This study will build […]

Congratulations to Lauren Perez Bonilla on receiving a Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellowship.   The Wood/Raith Living Trust is named for Audrey Wood (UCONN class of ‘47) and Edeltraut Raith.  Both Wood and Raith earned their Masters in Library Science from the University of Southern California and spent their careers as librarians with […]

Anji Seth will be one of the four participants on the GENERATIONS:  A Conversations Between Women and the Climate Crisis panel. In this event, four generations of women will discuss how the climate crisis affects us all.  The panel will explore how each generational viewpoint informs our overall understanding of this important issue and how […]

Congratulations to Audrey Berry and all the GIS Diversity grant awardees.  The program, funded by a CLAS diversity initiative, was highlighted in a recent issue of UConn Today. Read the story here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2023/04/research-ready-preparing-students-for-life-after-uconn

Congratulations to Adam Gallaher for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled:  Sustainable Energy Transitions: Exploring Low Carbon Solutions for Transportation and Electricity Production.