Assistant Professor Debanuj DasGupta was selected to be a member of the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum. This comes with a scholarship from the German Federal Foreign Office in order to present his research and help form a transgender policy Taskforce for the South Asian region. More information on the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum can be […]

Professor Anji Seth was quoted in a recent article appearing in The Nation titled The Climate Won’t Stop Changing In 2100. Here is a link to the digital version of the:  https://www.thenation.com/article/the-climate-wont-stop-changing-in-2100    

The CLAS New Heads Series are talks with incoming heads and directors of departments, centers, and institutes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  This fall Professor Cindy Zhang was interviewed as she began her tenure as head of the Department of Geography in August 2018. Here is a link to the interview:  https://clas.uconn.edu/2018/09/26/clas-new-heads-series-cindy-zhang

Professor Scott Stephenson was recently interviewed about his research regarding global climate change and the effects on shipping routes in the Arctic. The UConn Today post can be found here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2018/09/ships-clouds-mean-cooling-arctic

Professor Debs Ghosh is an invited speakers at the  2018 New York State Geospatial Summit (https://nysgis.net/geosummit2018) , to be held on September 26, 2018, at the Welch Allyn Lodge in Skaneateles, New York. Her talk is titled: “Connecting People, Things, and Places in GIS”.  Dr. Ghosh will share thoughts, lessons learned, and examples from her […]

Prof. Debanuj DasGupta wins Social Science Research Council Fellowship in TransRegional Studies-Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections.   Link: https://www.ssrc.org/fellows  

Professor Cooke was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Fewer Americans Uproot Themselves for a New Job”.  The article appeared on the front page of the print edition of the WSJ.  Here is a link to the digital version:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/fewer-americans-uproot-themselves-for-new-jobs-1534690800    

Dr. Atkinson-Palombo has been appointed to the Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles for the State of Connecticut.  The task force will evaluate the standards established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regarding state responsibilities for regulating fully autonomous vehicles, evaluate laws, legislation and regulations proposed or enacted by other states to regulate fully autonomous vehicles, recommend how the state […]

Congratulations go out to Xueke Li and Ruiting Zhai for receiving 2018 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships from the UConn Graduate School. Keep up all the hard work.

Dr. Atkinson-Palombo to give talk at the Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich on “Evaluating Autonomous Vehicles using a Sustainability Framework” over spring break.