Congratulations to Chuanrong (Cindy) Zhang (PI), Tian Zhao and Weidong Li (Co-PIs) for receiving a USGS grant award for a project titled Processing and optimization of spatial knowledge queries of The National Map. The objective of this research is to develop new approaches for spatial knowledge queries of the National Map.  Zhang and her research […]

Ken Foote recently appeared in a C-SPAN broadcast.  It was about a talk he delivered in Salem, MA, in June on the 325th anniversary of the killing of Bridget Bishop, the first victim of the witchcraft scare.  Here is the Salem talk:  https://www.c-span.org/video/?429605-9/memorializing-salem Ken was also interviewed for a podcast about the efforts to create […]

Congratulations to Ruiting Zhai for winning the Third-Place award in a student paper competition at the 25th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Aug 2-4, 2017, Buffalo, NY, USA). Her paper is titled:  Predicting land cover change in Long Island Sound Watersheds and its effect on invasive species: A case study for glossy buckthorn

Professor Mark Boyer recently had op-ed published in the Stamford Advocate concerning the swift path to global irrelevance for the United States under the leadership of President Trump.  His op-ed piece can be found linked below. http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Mark-A-Boyer-Not-America-first-but-rather-11305384.php  

Alex was recently featured among the CLAS Class of 2017 student profiles.   See his feature here:  http://clas.uconn.edu/class-of-2017/#bauer

The UConn School of Law’s Center for Energy and Environmental Law, along with the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, will be hosting a one day conference titled Climate, Carbon, and Cars.  The conference is devoted to the present and future of automobiles and their impact on climate change and the environment. This is a great […]

We are delighted of the announcement that Professor Carol Atkinson-Palombo has been appointed Director of the CLAS Environmental Studies Program, beginning on July 1, 2017 and continuing to June 30, 2022. Professor Atkinson-Palombo has a distinguished record of serving on the Environmental Studies Advisory Board, and of teaching the introductory and capstone courses for the […]

Associate Professor Carol Atkinson-Palombo is being being recognized by the UConn Center for Real Estate for her contribution to real estate research.  The award honors University of Connecticut Professors who have performed outstanding research in real estate and provided service to the UConn Real Estate Program and the real estate profession. Congratulations Professor Atkinson-Palombo.

Congratulations go out to Diane BenBella, who has been selected to receive a competitive multi-year pre-doctoral fellowship program funded by NIH starting in July 2017. This fellowship is part of a T32-AIDS Training Grant with Dr. Seth Kalichman (UConn) as the PI and Dr. Debs Ghosh (Diane’s major advisor) as one of the five training […]