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.

Professor Debanuj DasGupta to deliver the keynote speech for the Sexuality and Space Speciality Group at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference in New Orleans on 04/11/2018. 

Dr. Atkinson-Palombo to chair General Education Environmental Literacy Task Force for UConn Senate. At its meeting on February 5, 2018 the Senate approved the following motion: All University of Connecticut students will be required to take a 3-credit Environmental Literacy course as part of the General Education Requirements that will not add to the total […]

Professor Debanuj DasGupta traveled to Mumbai and Kolkata, India to give talks at three research universities. Prof. DasGupta is currently developing links between the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the S.N.D.T. University in Mumbai and the Department of Geography at Presidency University. Here are the details of the three talks: Title: “Understanding Gender Based Violence […]

Professor Debs Ghosh recently traveled to New Delhi to give two talks at Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Here are the details of the two talks: Title: Connected Technologies for “Smarter” Geographical Health Research Place: Geo-Research Forum, Geography Department, University of Delhi Date: 01/05/2018 And Title: Connected Technologies for “Smarter” Geographical Health Research Place: […]

Ken Foote discussing responses to recent violence on BYUradio. You can access your interview here: https://www.byuradio.org/

Professors Carol Atkinson-Palombo and Norman Garrick will be leading a three-week study abroad program in Amsterdam. (click on the image on the right to enlarge the graphic)   For more information: email:  carol.atkinson-palombo@uconn.edu Visit:  abroad.uconn.edu/program/sustainable-amsterdam Join:  The “UConn Sustainable Amsterdam” Facebook group.