USE YOUR INGENUITY TO SOLVE A CRITICAL GLOBAL PROBLEM Join the Universitas 21 Global Ingenuity Challenge:  The Challenge of Sustainable Housing Calling students from all majors! Apply to become part of a five member UConn team to find an innovative solution to “The Challenge of Sustainable Housing.” You will be competing with teams that are […]

Congratulations go out to Professor Ken Foote who received the 2016 AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award. The AAG annual award recognizes an individual geographer, group, or department, who demonstrates extraordinary leadership in building supportive academic and professional environments and in guiding the academic or professional growth of their students and junior colleagues. More […]

Assistant Professor Scott Stephenson to speak at the 2015 Rutgers Regional Climate Symposium. This symposium is intended to stimulate interaction and foster collaboration among the community of natural and social science climate researchers and university students from institutions in the greater NJ, NY and Philadelphia region. This years theme is Climate Change and Polar Regions. […]

The National Research Council has appointed Dr. Atkinson-Palombo to two scientific and technical panels covering projects funded by the Transportation Research Board. Over a period of two years she will be traveling back and forth to Washington DC to collaborate with other scientists and practitioners to shape two separate projects – one relating to public involvement in […]

Megan McCusker Hill  and Kate Johnson are on the organizing committee this year for the AAG Symposium on Physical Geography titled “Challenges of the ‘Anthropocene’”. It’s one of 3 featured themes for the upcoming AAG meeting in San Francisco. See information below if you are interested in submitting a poster abstract for the symposium.   […]

UConn will send* a select group of students (and faculty) to Paris this December for what is shaping up to be a historic event for people and the planet. The UN Climate Negotiations (under the UNFCCC) to be held in Paris, France is the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21). COP21 will […]

Dr. Thomas Cooke has been invited to give a seminar to the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Unit on September 10, 2015. The title of his talk will be “Migration and Union Dissolution“. More information can be found at the following link:  http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/NILSResearchSupportUnit/News/#d.en.522236

Dr. Carol Atkinson-Palombo will lead a panel on Wind Turbines and their Impact on Residential Property Values by the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Assessors in Boston on Aug 21.       Here is the link to the event: http://www.mbrea.org/calendar_day.asp?date=8/21/2015&event=173  

Congratulations to Menyao Zhang and Joe Danko for receiving the following awards.   Mengyao received the Dean Ross MacKinnon Fellowship award from the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.       Joe received two awards:  First, he earned the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship in the Social Sciences, awarded from the UConn College of Liberal […]

  Colby was recently featured among 11 other seniors of the CLAS Class of 2015. clas.uconn.edu/class-of-2015/#mccabe