Professor Foote’s book Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy was recently referenced in a NY Times Magazine article concerning the tragedy at Sandy Hook.  The NY Times article can be found at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/magazine/can-you-erase-the-trauma-from-a-place-like-sandy-hook.html   Professor Foote was also recently interviewed for two blog posts from the Ford’s Theatre in DC about a new […]

Professors Carol Atkinson-Palombo and Anji Seth have been selected as at-large members for the UConn Environmental Policy Advisory Council (EPAC). EPAC is advisory to the UConn President, Provost, and other senior administrators about strategies for enhancing UConn’s environmental performance. More info about the EPAC can be found here: http://www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/about/epac.html.    

Professor Mark Boyer was recently interviewed by UConn Today in regards to the gender in politics discussion. Read the entire story here:  http://today.uconn.edu/2016/07/gender-make-difference-politics/

Professor Thomas Cooke was recently interviewed about his research about the contribution of divorce to migration rates in the United States. You can read the full story here:  http://clas.uconn.edu/2016/06/13/divorce-contributes-to-us-migration-decline/    

The Geography Department would like to congratulate Mengyao Zhang for receiving an award at the 2016 AAG conference. Mengyao won 1st place in the Business Geography Specialty Group student paper award [graduate division] at this year’s AAG.  The title of her paper is “How can we attract customers? A multidimensional assessment of local grocery stores in Greater Hartford […]

The original post from the UConn Office of Public Engagement     Luke LaRosa, a senior at UConn, was recently awarded a Honorable Mention for Aetna Writing in the Disciplines Award for his paper titled “Selling Downtown North: Place Branding, Citizen Involvement, and the Creation of a Neighborhood” “Selling Downtown North: Place Branding, Citizen Involvement, […]

One of Professor Stephenson’s recent articles was recently featured as a Research Spotlight in EOS, AGU’s science news magazine.   https://eos.org/research-spotlights/climate-models-predict-diverse-arctic-ocean-shipping-routes

Below is a link to an op-ed piece written by Professor Tom Cooke which was published in the Hartford Courant.   http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-cooke-ct-gaining-skilled-population-0117-20160114-story.html

  Below is a link to an op-ed piece written by Professor Mark Boyer which was published in the Albany Times-Union.   Thought of science actually informing policy may be gone  

  Here is some interesting research from UConn’s Sustainable Cities research group which appeared in the Washington Post recently. Dr. Carol Atkinson-Palombo is a member of this research group. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/15/the-problem-with-parking/