Interested in seeing everything EcoHouse did on their Alternate Spring Break trip to West Virginia? EcoHouse Freshman, Rainer Moy-Huwyler, put together a fantastic online album chronicling the journey. To see the photos and EcoHouse LCers in action, use the following link: http://imgur.com/a/9BFaL
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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.
First Year Programs & Learning Communities is currently in 4th place for the 2014 UConn Ignite competition. With the last leg of the competition upon us, FYP&LC is offering a pizza party to the learning community with the highest percentage of donors (weighted by LC size) by the end of the competition. Please remember that it is the quantity of donations that counts, not the individual amount. A donation of $5 is all that is required to contribute and help FYP&LC secure their spot among the top causes.
To donate follow this link and mention your LC in the section that says “In honor/support of..[Your LC]”
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.
This Wednesday, March 5th from 10AM to 3:00PM, the First Year Programs & Learning Communities Ignite team will be tabling in the Student Union as a part of “Ignite Day.” The FYP&LC team is competing in the Ignite program to raise funds to support first year study abroad programs, UConn Connects scholarships, LC field trips and activities as well as summer training and undergraduate research.
Help the FYP&LC team win the top prize of $10,000 by donating $5 or more, it is the quantity of donations, not their individual amount, that help towards this goal. There will be food, giveaways and entertainment. Donations can be made by cash, card, or check. You can also donate online and find more information HERE.
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.
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
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, 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
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