Almost every first-year student at UConn takes a First Year Experience course. Why, you ask? UConn students take FYE because it’s fun, meaningful, and helps our emerging scholars make the most of college right from the first day. And nationally, it has been shown that students who take FYE are more likely to be happy and successful right from the beginning of their college careers. If you weren’t able to find an FYE section that fit your schedule at Orientation don’t worry. Go to fye.uconn.edu to join the wait list and be added to the next available section that works for you. We’ll see you this fall!
CLAS students in Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve
Dr. Bernard Goffinet of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at the University of Connecticut lead a First Year International (FYI) Trip to Patagonia (Sub-antarctic Chile) during the 2015-2015 winter intercession. For more information on FYI trips in general, or the Patagonia trip in specific, visit the FYI page at: http://fyp.uconn.edu/fyi/
East Meets West In Southern China: Info Meeting 2/23
Informational Meeting Monday February 23 at 7 PM in the McMahon Learning Community Lounge
Hong Kong is one of the most exciting cities in the world with a unique combination of east and west, colonial legacies and communist oversight, rampant commercialism and Buddhist spirituality, ancient art and a vibrant contemporary cultural scene. Plus any number of excellent, cheap restaurants! This 3 week trip will encompass Hong Kong and neighboring parts of southern China. It will have a multidisciplinary focus and offer 3 credits of coursework. First year students are particularly encouraged to consider this possibility.
Download flier: HKTripFlyer15
First Year International (FYI) Students Embark to Sub-Antarctic Chile Winter 2014-15
Are you interested in studying abroad? Curious what ecological conditions are like in Sub-Antarctic Chile? Follow along with UConn Professors Dr. Bernard Goffinet & Dr. Robert Capers and UConn students as they experience one of the most remote, pristine and biologically rich regions of the world: the southern tip of South America all while staying at a research station within the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve!
The blog will feature photos, student testimonials, and focus on of the academic component of the trip (bio-cultural conservation through a multicultural, interdisciplinary experience that will include elements of biology, philosophy, anthropology, conservation ethics, environmental history, etc).
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Emma Price ’16, a Supervising Teaching Assistant, Highlighted on CCD Website as a Student Success Story
Emma Price is a Senior at UConn who is studying Animal Science. She is a Supervising Teaching Assistant for the First Year Programs and was recently profiled by the Center for Career Development (CCD). To read the full profile, enter this post and click on the picture.
UConn Connects Master Coach, Danielle Todd ’15, Highlighted on CCD Website as a Student Success Story
Danielle Todd is a Senior at UConn who is double majoring in Psychology and Human Development and Family Service. She is a UConn Connects Master Coach and was recently profiled by the Center for Career Development (CCD). To read the full profile, enter this post and click on the picture.
UConn FYE 2014 Mentor, Pratik Parikh ’16, Highlighted on CCD Website as a Student Success Story
Pratik Parikh is a Junior at UConn who is studying Political Science. He was a First Year Experience (FYE) Mentor in 2014 and was recently profiled by the Center for Career Development (CCD). To read the full profile, enter this post and click on the picture.
UConn FYE Supervising Teaching Assitant Brittney Robinson, ’15 Highlighted on CCD Website as a Student Success Story
Brittney Robinson, a UConn Senior, FYE Mentor, Supervising Teaching Assistant, and HDFS major was recently profiled by the Center for Career Development (CCD). To read the full profile, enter this post and click on the picture.
UConn FYE Mentor Boya Yuan, ’15 Highlighted on CCD Website as a Student Success Story
Boya Yuan, UConn Senior, FYE Mentor, and Landscape Architecture was recently profiled by the Center for Career Development (CCD). To read the full profile, enter this post and click on the picture.
UConn ALD Wins National Outstanding Chapter Award
CONTACT:
Dr. Glenda Earwood
Executive Director
National Alpha Lambda Delta
478-744-9595
FAX: 478-744-9924
glenda@nationalald.org
Dr. Susan Melson Huffman, President of Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society for First Year Students, announced that the University of Connecticut chapter has won the prestigious Maintaining the Flame Award for the activities during the 2013-2014 academic term.
The Maintaining the Flame Award celebrates outstanding chapters that have shown continued excellence in chapter programming, communications, and service; it is a follow-up award to the Society’s Order of the Torch Award. Each year, the National Council of Alpha Lambda Delta selects the top chapters for the Society’s Order of the Torch Award – chapters that have excelled in the areas of programming, internal communications, and campus visibility. After receiving the Order of the Torch, a chapter is eligible to compete in that program for the next four years – Maintaining the Flame is awarded to chapters who continue their excellent work during their period of ineligibility.
The successful chapter was led by Marissa Mannello who served as President of the University of Connecticut chapter last year. The chapter is advised by David Ouimette & Megan Gunderson. The chapter last won the Order of the Torch in 2011, and will be eligible to compete for that award again in 2014-2015 academic year.
Alpha Lambda Delta emphasizes that educated persons have a responsibility to “have tolerance in your dealings with all persons, generosity in giving to those in need, and insight into the feelings of others” says Dr. Glenda Earwood, executive Director of the Society. Members are challenged to make “meaningful contributions to society.”
Founded in the spring of 1924 at the University of Illinois by Dean Maria Leonard, Alpha Lambda Delta is a national honor society that recognizes and encourages excellence among the first year students. Today, Alpha Lambda Delta has 275 chapters throughout the Unites States and more than 1,000,000 students have been initiated into membership since the first chapter was started 90 years ago.