Vice Provost Sally Reis and UNIV 1820, UConn Reads Persepolis students will be holding book discussion tables at Whitney, South, and Northwest as part of the campus-wide Persian dinner service on March 5th.
Month: February 2014
UNIV 1820, UConn Reads: 2014 Persepolis, attends Art Spielgelman lecture
FYE course UNIV 1820, UConn Reads: 2014 Persepolis, will be attending the 2013-2014 UConn Read’s sponsored lecture featuring acclaimed graphic novelist Art Spiegelman. Speigelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his graphic novel Maus, will be at the Jorgansen Center for the Performing Arts this Monday, March 3rd at 7 p.m.
Entrance is free and open to the public. Read more: here
Woman to Woman Engineering Alumnae Event
Twila Hinds, former WiMSE RA and senior biomedical engineering major, has worked in conjunction with the School of Engineering to create the Woman to Woman program. Woman to Woman invites UConn Engineering alumnae to speak with undergraduates of any major in a casual format. The floor is open to discussion and past topics included: salaries, working in a heavily male dominated industry, family life and prejudices experienced by the speaker during her journey. Past alumni came from Insurity, Covidien, Unilever, General Electric and Pratt and Whitney. A schedule of events can be found below:
20-Feb-14: Pam Petro (B.S. Chemical Engineering, ’86; MBA’93)
20-Mar-14: Kristen Langlois (B.S. Biomedical Engineering, ’07)
17-Apr-14: Katherine Coughlin (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, ’05)
All events will be in the WiMSE Space (Ryan 251).
David Ouimette wins Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates award
David Ouimette, Exec. Director of First Year Programs & Learning Communities at UConn, has been awarded the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates award. The award, co-sponsored by Cengage Learning and the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, recognizes 10 individuals across the nation’s higher education system who have demonstrated “exceptional work in the areas of student learning, development and success.”
Read more about the award here: Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates
National Engineers Week at UConn
UConn Engineering hosted various educational activities throughout the week in celebration of national Engineers Week. The Rube Goldberg competition will be hosted Saturday, March 8th in the ITE lobby.
A video of last year’s Engineers Week at UConn can be found here: UConn Engineering Ambassadors Host National Engineers Week 2013 (Featuring previous Eurotech RA Monica Smith and current Eurotech LC Ambassador Joanna Hull)
You can read more about National Engineers Week at UConn and the events, including the Rube Goldberg competition, here: National Engineers Week
UConn HuskyDrive: Ignite 2014
Andrew Kim of Leadership House has started a project to raise funds for First Year Programs & Learning Communities through UConn Ignite. Ignite is a crowd funding program that allows students to engage in philanthropy and raise funds to support a cause at UConn. Groups can earn a portion of a $27,000 donation prize for their project based on different criteria, including total number of donors and funds raised (prize donated by alumni Dave Barton ’67 and Adam Schwartz ’97). Find out more about the Ignite program here: UConn Ignite 2014 and support the FYP & LC project here: FYP & LC Ignite Project
UConn Connects Seeks Student Facilitators for Fall 2014
The UConn Connects program is now accepting applications for undergraduate facilitators for the Fall 2014 semester. Faculty, staff, and current facilitators who know undergraduate students that would excel in the role of a Connects facilitator can find out more about the program and apply online using the following link: http://aac.uconn.edu/undergraduate_facilitator/
Learning Communities at HuskyTHON
This past Monday, Feb. 17, students from several of UConn’s Learning Communities, including teams from Business Connections, Global House, and Public Health House, participated in HuskyTHON’s annual eighteen-hour dance marathon. HuskyTHON is a yearlong fundraising effort at UConn that raises funds for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Public Health House and Global House teamed up this year to raise $2,838. This year’s HuskyTHON raised over $457,000.00 in total. http://www.huskython.uconn.edu/