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WiMSE’s Rebecca Acabchuk awarded 100 Years of Women Scholarship

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Congratulations to Rebecca Acabchuk of UConn’s Women in Math, Science & Engineering. Acabchuk has been awarded one of the three 100 Years of Women Scholarship Awards for the 2014-2015 academic year in recognition of her “outstanding academic achievements, dedicated service, and significant contributions to the advancement of women in society.” (UConn Women’s Center)

“The 100 Years of Women Scholarship fund was established in 1992 to honor a current UConn student or high school senior planning to enroll at UConn who, as a role model and advocate, has advanced the status and contributions of women in society.” (UConn Women’s Center)

Additionally, Acabchuk will be receiving a graduate Student Life Award later this month.

NRC FYE Conference: 2014 Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates Award Recipients

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First posted on February 21, 2014, David Ouimette, Exec. Director of FYP&LC was awarded the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates Award from the National Resource Center for First Year Experience. This prestigious award is given to a select few, from thousands of nominees nation-wide. To read more about David’s approach to First-Year Support Programming, and those of his fellow award winners, read the excerpts  found HERE.

UNIV 1820, UConn Reads: 2014 Persepolis, attends Art Spielgelman lecture

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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

David Ouimette wins Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates award

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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

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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

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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

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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/