TBA

Wed. Workshop with Jason Chang & Alexis Dudden on the launch of their graphic novel project on the 1852 Cargo Rebellion; this is in conjunction with the History Club.

Hybrid event:
In Wood Hall Basement Lounge and online:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84862930904?pwd=WVZHVWdab25KZFUxVVErUk1yR2x2Zz09

Standard parametric modelling approaches by applied researchers assume that a single distribution representative of population being sampled and modifications to that distribution are driven covariates in the regression model. In many cases, the implicit restrictions of the model structure (e.g., a linear function can describe the data) and underlying distribution assumption (e.g., the data has a normal distribution) does not impede reasonable analysis of the data at hand. However, when the data is difficult to fit, finite mixture models may provide useful alternative approach. An overview of various mixture distribution will be presented as well as a description of how EM-algorithm is used to estimate parameters for finite mixture. The local maxima problem associated with finite mixture models and few possible solutions will be presented. An example of a how a finite mixture model was used to estimate risk of exposure to ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (the etiologic agent of Lyme Disease). The example will illustrate how the flexible nature of the mixture model allows the relationship between ecological values and risk of exposure can change through space and time. A second example of using mixture models to fit difficult to fit survival data will be presented. The example will illustrate how loosening the assumption of a single underlying distribution can allow for important improvements to fit of the data.

Bio: Paul Cislo received a BS in Biology from UCONN (Class 1992), an MS in Marine Science from University of South Carolina (Class of 1994) and a PhD in Biostatistics from Yale University (Class 2011). His dissertation work focused on development of spatial mixture models and applying those models to estimate risk of exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi (the etiologic agent of Lyme Disease) in the lower 48 states. After leaving an academic setting, Paul has primarily focused on health economics and outcomes research within the pharmaceutical industry gaining experience at Bayer, BMS, and Pfizer. Paul is a member of the Health Economics & Outcomes Research Statistics Group at Pfizer, which part of its Statistical Research & Data Science Center.

DATE: Wednesday, 3/1/23
TIME: 4:00 PM
PLACE: AUST 163
Webex link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m3fbdb2de3b70213da9f4e2e4035005f5

Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326)

AAASI presents a UConn Honors screening of the Chinatown Rising documentary on March 1, 2023 from 5:30-7:30pm at the Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center. There will be a Q&A with Co-Director Josh Chuck after the screening.

About the film:

Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck’s exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided community’s struggles for self-determination. Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the Asian American Movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition. Through publicly challenging the conservative views of their elders, their demonstrations and protests of the 1960s-1980s rattled the once quiet streets during the community’s shift in power. Forty-five years later, in intimate interviews these activists recall their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change.

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.

The Aetna Writer-in-Residence Program began in 2003. Supported by funding from the Aetna Chair in Writing, UConn’s Creative Writing Program invites a nationally or internationally-known author to campus for a residency each semester. Each author spends three days on campus offering tutorials for students, holding Q&A sessions with the campus community, leading master classes in creative writing, sharing meals with students, and giving a public reading of his or her work. As a result of the Aetna Writer-in-Residence program, UConn graduate and undergraduate students can participate in an intense hands-on learning experience with some of today’s most exciting authors.

Past Aetna Writers-in-Residence included Ilya Kaminsky, Jeff Parker, Tara Betts, Kimiko Hahn, Amber Dermont, Jericho Brown, Laura van den Berg, Camille Dungy, Jo-Ann Mapson, Eduardo C. Corral, Andre Dubus III, G.C. Waldrep, Margot Livesey, Shara McCallum, Connie Voisine, Edmund White, Colum McCann, Lynne McMahon, Fay Weldon, Phillis Levin, Allen Kurzweil, Naeem Murr, Steve Almond, C.D. Wright, Stuart O’Nan, and Beth Ann Fennelly.

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Understanding the human white matter."

Presenter: Franco Pestilli, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pyschology, The University of Texas

“Transcribathon” describes the full range of the Early Modern Studies Working Group’s efforts to teach and develop the skills of paleography. Critical to researching the early modern period is the ability to read manuscripts. This is not always so easy! Thus, our ongoing paleography workshop is designed to provide introductory tutelage and regular practice.

Arithmetic statistics is a subject that is more than two centuries old, and throughout its history there have been two major currents: the tauberian method and the geometry of numbers. I will illustrate these two currents using results of Dirichlet and Gauss, and then I will attempt to answer the following question: Why has a subject which is more than two hundred years old acquired a label – arithmetic statistics – only within the last fifteen? No background in number theory will be assumed.

Join the Center for Career Development and Statistics Department for an interactive session about networking and how it can benefit the internship and job searches. We'll go over tips and strategies for both networking at in-person events, like conferences and career fairs, as well as using virtual tools like LinkedIn and HuskyLink to expand your network digitally. This event will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in-person.

The University of Connecticut’s annual student-run Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Details: https://humanitiesundergraduate.symposium.uconn.edu/

Presenting: Gail Schwieterman, University of Maine

Seminar Title: Puzzling Out Multi-stressor Responses in Coastal Fishes

Host: Catherine Matassa

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1233/

Dr. Marcello Graziano
Department of Management & International Business
Southern Connecticut State University

This seminar will analyze the evolution of the Blue Economy as one of the pivotal regional development paradigms. After a brief review of the Blue Economy, the talk will focus on the economic size and resilience of five established definitions of the Blue Economy across two geographical locations: Scotland (UK) and Michigan (USA). The work presented will analyze sector-level employment, labor productivity and Gross Value Added (GVA) data, and uses graphical representations to highlight the differences in conceptualizing the Blue Economy in ways that affect its weight and contribution to regional economies. Further, it analyses how each definition has fared in the post-2007/2011 crisis, assessing their resilience. Finally, a discussion of the emerging discourse around the Blue Economy by highlighting its regional character, and by problematizing the divergent definitions of the concept.

Dr. Marcello Graziano is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business at Southern Connecticut State University, and Associate Director of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis at the University of Connecticut. An Economic and Energy Geographer, Dr. Graziano's research focuses primarily on sustainable transition processes, regional growth and economic modeling, energy and resilience, and the care economy.

MCB DEI Committee Special Seminar: Dr. Anna Marie LaChance

“Why Trans Inclusion Leads to Better Science”

Friday, March 3, 12:20 pm, BPB 130

Dr. Anna Marie LaChance is a chemical engineer (UConn Alum) and STEM educator with numerous professional and creative projects. Through her teaching work, podcast (Rule 63), social media presence (Substack & TikTok), and local political organizing, she is an advocate for abolitionist engineering education and intersectional transfeminism.

Anna transitioned at the age of 22 while earning her PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. As a graduate student, she has mentored dozens of women and gender-diverse people in STEM, empowering them to bring their “full selves” into their engineering work. She has served as a member of several graduate student organizations and has been widely recognized for her research, teaching, and mentorship, including the 2021 Connecticut Women of Innovation® Award in the Inspiring STEM Equitability category by the Connecticut Technology Council—Anna was the first openly transgender or non-binary person to win in any category in the award’s 17-year history.

Dr. LaChance is currently working as a Lecturer for the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she offers courses on chemical engineering process control, polymer processing, and sustainability.

Learn more about Dr. LaChance:
Dr. Anna Marie LaChance (pronunciation)

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Personal website: https://www.thatannamarie.com/

TikTok, Instagram, & Twitter: @ThatAnnaMarie

Mastodon: ThatAnnaMarie@mstdn.social

Newsletter: https://thatannamarie.substack.com/

This presentation is part of the Seminar in PNB (PNB 6405) / PNB Friday Research in Progress Talks.

Dr. John Sarrao
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Opportunities in quantum science and advanced computing at National Laboratories, especially Los Alamos


Los Alamos has a rich history of cutting-edge science and technology, especially at the frontiers of correlated matter and computing research. The convergence of quantum information science, machine learning, and data science creates new opportunities and challenges. The Department of Energy (DOE) is actively investing in meeting these research needs.

Nevertheless, the DOE National Labs in general, and Los Alamos in particular, are relatively unknown to many students (and faculty) in academia. By highlighting LANL’s strategic priorities, mission needs, and capability challenges, we hope to foster further collaborations and enhance pipeline opportunities between Los Alamos and the University of Connecticut.

Franco Pestilli PhD
University of Texas, Austin

https://birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker-series-2/#collapsepanel-1912-0-0-20

A public cloud platform to support neuroimaging research in the era of big data
Over the past years, the neuroimaging field has benefited tremendously from an influx in large-scale data collection and sharing efforts that have made it easier to study humans at the scale of populations. Advances in large-scale data-driven methods also address the major scientific need for rigor and reproducibility. However, the use of large datasets poses multiple new challenges for researchers. Traditionally, neuroimaging researchers have collected a few hours of neuroimaging data on a few dozens of subjects and analyzed it using laboratory computers and in-house data processing methods. Modern studies, by contrast, require the analysis of hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of data, with an accompanying move of data away from individual laboratory computers toward high-performance computing clusters and cloud systems. To help ensure the reproducibility and rigor of scientific results, the neuroimaging community has developed public archives for data deposition, data standards, and software libraries for data preprocessing and analysis. I will present a public resource, http://brainlife.io, which provides integrative web services to help piece together data, software, and hardware in support of simplicity, efficiency, transparency, and equity in big data neuroscience research. The vision of http://brainlife.io is to become a global interoperable and integrative platform connecting the multiple communities of software developers, hardware providers, and domain scientists via cloud services and technology to support the next generation of breakthroughs in neuroscience.

The Abrahamic Story of the Tree is a semester-long exploration of the Tree of Life in Judaism, Christianity and Islam through a series of exhibits, talks, performances, and campus tours. These events are open to public, and presented by the School of Fine Arts and the Office of Global Affairs. For more information visit http://s.uconn.edu/story-of-the-tree.

Please join this virtual talk via the Webex link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=mb5ca02fcc5cc8a161cbdd248ae3d0584
(Meeting number: 2621 244 4271
Password: BQrNshT65M2)

Abstract: In non-life insurance, it is essential to understand the serial dynamics and dependence structure of the longitudinal insurance data before using them. Existing actuarial literature primarily focuses on modeling, which typically assumes a lack of serial dynamics and a pre-specified dependence structure of claims across multiple years. To fill in the research gap, we develop two diagnostic tests, namely the serial dynamic test and correlation test, to assess the appropriateness of these assumptions and provide justifiable modeling directions. The tests involve the following ingredients: i) computing the change of cross-sectional estimated model parameters and the empirical residual correlations of the claims across time, which serve as the indications to detect serial dynamics and peculiar serial dependence of claims; ii) quantifying estimation uncertainty using the randomly weighted bootstrap approach; iii) developing asymptotic theories to construct proper test statistics. The proposed tests are tested by simulated data and applied to multiple non-life insurance datasets, revealing that the real insurance datasets can behave very differently.

Speaker's short bio: Tsz (Samson) is an assistant professor at Robinson College of Business of Georgia State University. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Toronto and a B.S. in actuarial science from the University of Hong Kong. He was a postdoc at ETH Zurich from Aug 2020 to Jul 2021, before joining Georgia State. Please see his google scholar page https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=atdCdk8AAAAJ&hl=en for more information about his research.

UConn Professor Debapriya Sarkar talks about her new book Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science, reception to follow.

This event is part of the programming for Seeing Truth, an exhibition about art, science, museums, and making knowledge. Details about the exhibit can be found at http://futureoftruth.uconn.edu/seeing-truth

A liberal arts and sciences degree prepares students with the tools they need to excel across a wide range of careers. Given the number of options available to you, it can be overwhelming to narrow down career choices. Attending CLAS Career Night will provide you exposure to career opportunities for CLAS students. Each event in this series features a number of UConn CLAS alumni who were once in your shoes and have since led successful careers in a variety of industries. Attending CLAS Career Night will involve opportunities for you to engage with these alumni, learn in-depth about various occupations, and gain insight about how to best prepare for your future career. This semester, the theme of CLAS Career Night is "Research Across the Disciplines".

Are you interested in a career working with young children and their families?

Many career paths intersect with young children/their development and having a foundation of knowledge of young children’s development can help you be more successful in your career. If you have questions about career options or want to learn more about this specialized coursework within HDFS, come to a virtual information session! You can pop into the meeting at any time during the 30 minutes!

• Tuesday 3/7, 5:30-6:00
• Tuesday 3/21, 10:00-10:30
• Wednesday 3/29 5:00-5:30

Sign-up here using this Google Form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct1Fu0JAR0u0EcUXZFnN0K0sAgZX-r27889uOvJAsh53H2kQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) or email, mary.tabb@uconn.edu

Visit the UConn Coastal Perspectives website for connection information. These lectures are being offered online and in-person.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023; 7:30 p.m.

Timothy Dale Walker, Ph.D.; Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Uncovering and Recentering the Maritime Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad scholarship has focused almost exclusively on interior overland routes used to escape enslavement in the Antebellum South. Largely overlooked, however, is the great multitude of enslaved persons who made their way to freedom aboard merchant vessels plying coastal routes along the Atlantic seaboard. This crucial but neglected aspect of the Underground Railroad story is the focus of this talk — and a groundbreaking volume of essays edited by Timothy Walker published in 2021. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad demonstrates that escaping bondage by sea was commonplace — especially from southern coastal regions where slave labor in maritime industries was ubiquitous. Such work gave enslaved people experience with vessels and seafaring, a knowledge of coastal geography, contact with ships’ crews from northern free states, and access to ocean-going northbound voyages. Successful escapes from the far South were almost all achieved by sea. By highlighting these little-known stories and describing the less-understood maritime side of antebellum escapes from bondage, this presentation will reshape our perception of how the Underground Railroad functioned, to provide a more comprehensive, accurate historical perspective.

Visit the website for more details on the presenters and their topics: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/lectures/

Stop by to get your questions answered at the CLAS Academic Services Center advising table. Academic Advisors will be available to answer questions about how to change your major, how to double major or dual degree, how to put a course on pass/fail or withdraw, how to view your pick time for registration, and much more. No appointment needed, just stop by. Please note, HOLDS will not be lifted at this time.

Are you interested in entrepreneurship and innovation policy? The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (http://ccei.uconn.edu) co-organizes the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Virtual Research Seminar Series!

Join the mailing list for seminar announcements here: https://mailchi.mp/3d0399d764f5/eip-virtual-research-seminar

Governments around the world enact policies that affect technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. An increasing number of scholars are investigating these topics, which has implications on policy design and program implementation. Yet, scholars lack a forum for presenting their work. This virtual seminar series will fill this gap—bringing together the insights from academia and policy application—thereby increasing our understanding of policy issues and build a forum for expressing these ideas and a supportive community to nourish them.

The next seminar will be on March 8: from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm ET. Ryan Coles (U. of Connecticut) - will present "In(Ex)clusive entrepreneurship: Patriarchy, regulatory change, and female entrepreneurship" (with Grady Raines, Peter Polhill, and Shon Hiatt). HC Kongsted (Copenhagen Business School) will discuss.

Please register for the event here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqf-mopzwvE931M1zc72lwK6FXOITPszMD

This program is coordinated by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) at UConn. CCEI was founded in 2007 and is a focal point for entrepreneurial activity within the University. CCEI supports student, faculty, staff, and alumni entrepreneurs across all academic departments, schools, and colleges. http://ccei.uconn.edu

Finite tensor categories are important generalizations of the categories of finite dimensional modules of finite dimensional Hopf algebras. There are two support theories for them, the cohomological one and one based on the noncommutative Balmer spectrum of the corresponding stable module category. We will describe general results linking the two types of support via a new notion of categorical center of the cohomology ring of a finite tensor category and will state a conjecture giving the exact relation. The construction and results will be illustrated with various examples. This is a joint with Daniel Nakano (Univ Georgia) and Kent Vashaw (MIT).

Chemistry Colloquium
Alison Frontier
University of Rochester
Host: Dr. Amy Howell

Please join us as this semester's honors thesis writers present their research.

Refreshments will be served.

The Cognitive Science Program invites you to a talk on 3/8!
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Naselaris, an Associate Professor from Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.
Please RSVP here: https://cogsci.uconn.edu/colloquia/
Talk Title: “Why Do We Have Mental Images?”
Abstract: Everyone who experiences mental imagery is the world expert on the contents of their own mental images. We argue that this privileged perspective on one’s own mental images provides very limited understanding about the function of mental imagery, which can only be understood by proposing and testing hypotheses about the computational work that mental images do. We propose that mental imagery functions as a useful form of inference that is conditioned on visual beliefs. We implement this form of inference in a simple generative model of natural scenes, and show that it makes testable predictions about differences in tuning to seen and imagined features. We confirm these predictions with a large-scale fMRI experiment in which human brain activity was sampled while subjects generated hundreds of mental images. We speculate that ongoing mental imagery may impact the structure of noise correlations in the visual system, and present a preliminary analysis of the Natural Scenes Dataset that appears to be consistent with these speculations.

Bio: Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the Medical Discovery Team on Optical Imaging and Brain Science at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. He is co-founder and currently Executive Chair of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.

Jingjing Yin, PhD.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Georgia Southern University

Joint inference of ROC measures for diagnostic biomarker/test evaluation

It is common to use the summary ROC measures such as the area under the ROC curve (AUC) for diagnostic test accuracy evaluations and comparisons. We propose to use the AUC and the Youden index jointly for making inferences about diagnostic tests, as the two indices describe different aspects of the ROC curve. This can be done by first estimating the joint confidence region of the AUC and the Youden index. For deciding if a marker is achieving the targeted values, or comparing two biomarkers in a paired design, in terms of both the AUC and the Youden index, we can perform joint testing for such order-restricted hypotheses for which the traditional likelihood ratio test or its variant cannot apply. We propose and compare three testing procedures: 1) the intersection-union test; 2) the conditional test; and 3) the joint test. The performance of the proposed inference methods was evaluated and compared through simulations. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed joint confidence region maintains the desired confidence level, and all three tests maintain the type I error under the null. Furthermore, among the three proposed testing methods, the conditional test is the preferred approach with markedly larger power consistently than the other two competing methods. In conclusion, estimating and testing jointly on the AUC and the Youden index gives more reliable results for biomarker evaluations than using a single index.

Bio: Dr. Jingjing Yin has a background in statistical methods in medical diagnostics, parametric and nonparametric inference, order-restricted inference, and sampling design. Meanwhile, she has diverse collaborative research in the field of medical science, Epidemiology, Environmental health, and health communication and management. Beyond traditional biomedical statistical research, she has also applied her expertise to the emerging field of big data analytics, with a focus on text-mining social media data. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in various statistical or medical journals including Statistics in Medicine, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Biometrical Journal, Pharmaceutical
Statistics, and Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics.

Dr. Jingjing Yin is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University. She earned her Ph.D. (2014) and M.S. (2011) in Biostatistics from the University at Buffalo, and her B.A. (2009) from West China University of Medical Science in Chengdu, China.
DATE: Wednesday, 3/8/23
TIME: 4:00 PM
PLACE: Virtual
Webex link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m85220c30543a9b4fa0a235575e52ba46

Come on by Austin's Stern Lounge at 6:00 PM for the Long River Reading Series. Featuring UConn poet Trace Peterson, author of Since I Moved In, as well as Carly Bria and Daniel Milovic. Join in on the fun afterward in our open-genre open mic!

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Neuroplasticity: The Role of Sensory Loss in Aging."

Kelly C. Harris, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Cassondra Marshall, DrPH, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

"Improving Family Planning Care for Patients with
Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension"

March 9, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Dr. Marshall is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health program at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Dr. Marshall was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and received training in delivery science research. Dr. Marshall also previously worked as a research fellow in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has expertise in patient-centered contraceptive care and has conducted studies on women’s contraceptive attribute preferences and method choice, contraceptive decision support tools, and cost sharing and contraceptive adherence. The goal of her research program is to promote reproductive and maternal health equity by developing and implementing patient-centered interventions and care delivery models that meet the needs of and improve the health of underserved women. Dr. Marshall’s current research focuses on health care delivery strategies to improve contraceptive and preconception care to women of reproductive age with diabetes and other chronic medical conditions.

View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/

In this first session of the Research Program on Arts & Human Rights' Faculty Seminar Series, Prof. Asif Majid (Dramatic Arts & Human Rights) will join us for a talk titled "Subverting Statues: Race, Space, Performance, and the Arab American National Museum."

For more information and to register, visit https://humanrights.uconn.edu/2023/02/13/arts-faculty-seminar-series/

This event will be held in-person and online.
*Please note this event has been rescheduled from March 2 to March 9.

The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. This semester we are reading Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister.

Title: "Large-scale mammal ecology: theory and data"

https://philipstephens.webspace.durham.ac.uk

A smooth complex projective variety is rational if it can be obtained from projective space by algebraic surgeries, i.e. blowups and blowdowns. It is stably rational if it becomes rational after taking a product with some projective space. Consider a family of such varieties over a connected base. Which members are rational? Stably rational? We focus on recent general results and also outstanding questions that remain. These are illustrated in several key examples, including hypersurfaces of low degree.
Joint work with Kresch, Pirutka, and Tschinkel.

Meeting of the CWP Leadership Council.

Instructor: Dr. David Garvey, Director of Partnerships & Alliances, Career Resources. We will discuss what makes partnerships and alliances work through the voices of seasoned nonprofit alliance builders. We will then examine the inner-workings of a living Connecticut cross-sector partnership of government, nonprofit, and private enterprise (WE RISE Together) that is assisting formerly justice-involved individuals restart their lives; providing social support, workforce training and a pathway to employment. We will see how this multi-sector eco-system works through system change. We will then use the collective knowledge of the class to examine your initiatives and those of your fellow classmates; assisting you in bringing your cross-sector partnership to its next stage. Go to https://publicpolicy.uconn.edu/collaborative/ for more information.

This presentation is part of the Seminar in PNB (PNB 6405) / PNB Friday Research in Progress Talks.

Join us for a virtual info session to learn about our Graduate Certificate and Masters Program in Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM), also called Surgical Neurophysiology. Drs Filipovic and Andalib will provide information to potential students about the field of IONM and the one-year Master in Surgical Neurophysiology, which starts in the summer of 2023.
to register: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=df61bf16-7571-4895-8f4b-530b9f15969e

Looking to be more competitive on the job market? Graduating and don't know what to do next? Want skills you can use at school, at work, AND in your everyday life? Check out UConn's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs! Now accepting applications to the 100% Online RMME Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program! The application deadline for Summer 2023 enrollment is March 24th. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

Do you want to spend your summer working on a business you created? How about receiving $15,000 in funding for your business, $5,000 of which you can elect to take as a stipend for the summer?

Summer Fellowship is UConn’s startup accelerator program and is an immersive entrepreneurial experience open to anyone affiliated with UConn (students, faculty, staff and alumni).

The Summer Fellowship program takes place June through August and startup teams spend 3 days a week over 8 weeks taking a deep dive into their business with the support of mentors, industry experts, and experienced entrepreneurs. These sessions help educate program participants on how to define their business, build their brand, and launch their venture, all while building a community with the other entrepreneurs participating in the program.

Summer Fellowship is CCEI’s flagship program and has prepared startups to launch their company, generate revenue, raise funding (grants, investments, etc.), and be accepted into next step opportunities such as incubators and accelerator programs.

The application deadline for the 2023 cohort is Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 11:59pm. Find more information and apply here: http://ccei.uconn.edu/programs/summer-fellowship/

If your application is reviewed and you are selected as a finalist, you will be asked to present a short pitch on what your project or company idea is in front of a panel of judges who will be selecting which teams participate. This virtual team pitch is scheduled for March 29th, 2023.

This program is coordinated by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) at UConn. CCEI was founded in 2007, and is a focal point for entrepreneurial activity within the University. CCEI supports student, faculty, staff, and alumni entrepreneurs across all academic departments, schools, and colleges. http://ccei.uconn.edu

Presenting: Ari Feinberg, MIT

Seminar Title: From pollution to your plate: the environmental cycles of selenium and mercury

Host: Rob Mason

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1233/

Are you interested in a career working with young children and their families?

Many career paths intersect with young children/their development and having a foundation of knowledge of young children’s development can help you be more successful in your career. If you have questions about career options or want to learn more about this specialized coursework within HDFS, come to a virtual information session! You can pop into the meeting at any time during the 30 minutes!

• Tuesday 3/21, 10:00-10:30
• Wednesday 3/29 5:00-5:30

Sign-up here using this Google Form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct1Fu0JAR0u0EcUXZFnN0K0sAgZX-r27889uOvJAsh53H2kQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) or email, mary.tabb@uconn.edu

Presentation and talk by Joshua Kertzer of Harvard University

With generous co-sponsorship from ELIN, IIREP, GERM, GLOBAL AFFAIRS, HRI, LAW, NAIS, PHIL, and SOCI. . .

"The Coloniality of Law in the US and Brazilian Indigenous Peoples' Contexts,"
Fernanda Frizzo Bragato,
Unisinos Law School (Brazil)


How and why does law undermine Indigenous rights in the US and Brazil? Legal rules and legal adjudication enable a broad range of deprivations in Indigenous rights to continue the colonial project.


About speaker:
Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, CNPq research & full professor of Law, teaches and supervises undergraduate and graduate students. Since 2015, her work has focused on Indigenous land rights/conflicts in Brazil in the context of risk for atrocities. She is the editor of "The Legal content of Human Rights: Civil and Political Rights in the International Instruments," the first handbook in Brazilian Portuguese to compile the primary international human rights standards.



Live Stream will be available

MCB Seminar Series:

Dr. Tory Hendry, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University

Hosted by Sarah Hird

"Environmental bacteria in host interactions: evolutionary consequences and host impacts"

Summary: Many environmental bacteria interact with animal hosts to varying degrees. Here I will discuss the diverse consequences of these interactions across hosts, such as in bioluminescent symbiosis with fish and in insect-microbe systems.

Bio: Tory Hendry is an evolutionary biologist and microbiologist who studies how host interactions shape the evolution and ecology of bacteria. Tory earned a BA in Biology from Williams College and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Arizona and as a USDA NIFA Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the faculty at Cornell University.

To learn more about Dr. Hendry, view publication: https://elifesciences.org/articles/47606

and her website: https://toryhendry.weebly.com/

This panel discussion is part of a series bringing former students together with current students. We will talk about the range of experiences, skills, and perspectives gained from undergrad English studies and the different kinds of pursuits alumni/-ae have embarked on. Panelists include:

Shana Attar (‘11; M.Ed., Harvard; Psych researcher; PhD candidate, U of Washington)

James Duffy (’19; Mental health counselor, grad student)

Joe Guarneri (’14; Writer, editor, counselor & advisor; higher education professional with Master’s)

Sebastian Rozo (’17; Author, teacher, student of Philosophies and Spiritualities, professional writer)

Michael Socci (’16; Public librarian, Master’s degree in Library/Information Sciences)

Natacha Streiff (’16; Equine and Gestalt therapist, mental health counselor, coaching grad student)

For more information, please contact frederick.roden@uconn.edu

Master's Degree with Music Education Concentration

Complete a Master of Arts with a concentration in music education in just 18 months, or over the course of three summers.

For more info and to RSVP for an info session, visit https://s.uconn.edu/MusicEdMasters

Visit the UConn Coastal Perspectives website for connection information. These lectures are being offered online and in-person.
“Horseshoe Crab” by annie! Is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023; 7:30 p.m.

Sarah Porter, Filmmaker

Horseshoe Crabs: How 350 Million Year Old Sea Creatures Are Vital to Our Survival

NYC has a surprising amount of nature and wildlife, including thousands of horseshoe crabs that come to the shores in the spring to mate. With the worldwide race to develop and manufacture vaccines came renewed interest in these incredible sea creatures and their blue blood. These animals are over 350 million years old and have been critical to the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Although the bright blue blood plays a vital role in helping end the pandemic, their numbers are in decline. Numerous species, including humans, depend on horseshoe crabs and it’s up to us to help ensure their survival. For this mini documentary, Sarah went out into the field and spoke with some “local heroes” in NYC who have been protecting them. Her team explored the nighttime waters of Brooklyn with elementary students to help monitor and tag them, data that then helps determine catch limits on how many can be taken by the biomedical and fishing industry.

Visit the website for more details on the presenters and their topics: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/lectures/

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and HRI’s Human Rights Research and Data Hub

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tf-irqDgiGNJXCJQu51tK5oafTjRmBtAD

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

How and why do international aid actors connect with local actors during crises, and with what consequences? I theorize that international aid actors forge social, behavioral, and material relations with local actors to achieve their objectives in crisis response. In so doing, they generate change in nonviolent activism, constituting activists as “capable” and organized crisis responders. This means, concurrently, that international aid actors enable wartime activism to persist even in the depths of violence. I process trace to build this theory in the Syrian war. Evidence of its observable implications comes from immersion and interviews with Syrians and international actors in neighboring countries, and an original dataset of Facebook pages representing activist organizations. Findings related to post-protest and non-rebel-facing action, and the constitutive power of humanitarian actors, contribute to understandings of wartime agency and the international dimensions of internal conflicts.

Chemistry Colloquium
Marino Resendiz
University of Colorado, Denver
Host: Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has launched a fellows program to allow its faculty and staff to develop resources to improve accessibility in the College around teaching and climate. This academic year, three faculty members have been awarded fellowships through the CLAS Accessibility Faculty Fellows Program to work on projects centered on advancing equity of access and inclusivity. In collaboration with the Center for Career Development, this event aligns with that commitment to providing graduate students in CLAS with information on making the transition into the workforce, including search tips and information on rights to accessibility.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuqppj0tG917efPbfji6tejWsvc-dySh

Psi Chi induction of Department of Psychological Sciences.

Opportunity for students considering graduate study in Philosophy at UConn to meet faculty and current graduate students, and to get a sense of life in the Department of Philosophy. For further questions, please contact Heather Battaly, Director of Graduate Studies, at heather.battaly@uconn.edu.

Today is the last day to apply for Summer 2023 admission to the 100% Online Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

Verge Consultants are graduate students that work with CCEI and Connecticut's SBDC to support startups and small businesses as they are overcoming the various hurdles of starting and growing their companies. Verge Consultants work together as a team to consult between 8-12 companies per summer in a variety of different industries, life cycles, challenges they face, and types of projects. Through a partnership with Connecticut Small Business Development Center, Verge Consultants get the opportunity to work directly with SBDC's business advisors to learn firsthand about consulting and supporting businesses. Consultants receive a stipend of $7,500 for 10 weeks of consulting between the end of May and the beginning of August.
Verge Consultants will:
Gain exposure and deliver solutions in multiple industries.
Experience working with companies across various business life cycles.
Work on Challenging projects that differ amongst each client.
Collaborate with a team of consultants that has diverse business backgrounds and a wide range of startup and consulting experience.
Build a resume of consulting experiences from 8-12 different client companies.

If you are interested in applying to become a Verge Consultant, please visit: https://ccei.uconn.edu/programs/verge-consulting-group/

This presentation is part of the Seminar in PNB (PNB 6405) / PNB Friday Research in Progress Talks.

Google, Are you Telling me What to do? Examining the Impact of Google Search Agenda and Perceived Threat on Public COVID-19 Vaccination Behavior

Communication

The Abrahamic Story of the Tree is a semester-long exploration of the Tree of Life in Judaism, Christianity and Islam through a series of exhibits, talks, performances, and campus tours. These events are open to public, and presented by the School of Fine Arts and the Office of Global Affairs. For more information visit http://s.uconn.edu/story-of-the-tree.

Ksenia Zanon

Come share your work in an informal, welcoming and constructive gathering with fellow writers- all genres welcome!!

Teacher-as-Writer Workshops are monthly gatherings for Teacher Consultants and other Connecticut teachers who wish to share and receive feedback on their writing. We also hold writing retreats in the fall and the spring.

The writing workshops are held by the Connecticut Writing Project on the UConn, Storrs campus from 10am to 12pm in the Stern Lounge on the second floor of the Austin Building.

Looking to be more competitive on the job market? Graduating and don't know what to do next? Want skills you can use at school, at work, AND in your everyday life? Check out UConn's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs! Now accepting applications to the 100% Online RMME Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program! The application deadline for Fall 2023 enrollment is June 16th. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

Looking to be more competitive on the job market? Graduating and don't know what to do next? Want skills you can use at school, at work, AND in your everyday life? Check out UConn's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs! Now accepting applications to the 100% Online RMME Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program! The application deadline for Fall 2023 enrollment is June 16th. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

APPLY HERE: https://connecticutwritingproject.submittable.com/submit/250571/cwp-summer-institute-2023

Honoring those 273 7-12 grade students who won awards in the 2023 CT Scholastic Writing Awards.

Want to know where to start with HRT? Unsure of how to change your gender marker on your driver's license? Well, Legally and Medically Trans is a once a semester event where legal and medical professionals come together as a resource to you! This event is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the different processes when it comes to transitioning. Space is limited and is on a first come, first serve basis.

Master's Degree with Music Education Concentration


At UConn’s Neag School of Education, practicing music teachers can:
Complete a Master of Arts with a concentration in music education — in 18 months, or over the course of three summers.
Earn professional development credits.
Work with nationally renowned music educators, conductors, and composers.
Build collaborative and social connections with colleagues.
Learn innovative music-centered pedagogies to deliver contemporary music instruction in a diverse environment.



For more info and to RSVP for an info session, visit https://s.uconn.edu/MusicEdMasters

TBA

Spring Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Psychological Sciences

This panel session invites doctoral alumni who are early in their faculty careers to share experiences and insights gained during the first year of their faculty positions.

Register here: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/weblink/register/rfe3345d30a0cf689542ff0ece091610e

Are you interested in a career working with young children and their families?

Many career paths intersect with young children/their development and having a foundation of knowledge of young children’s development can help you be more successful in your career. If you have questions about career options or want to learn more about this specialized coursework within HDFS, come to a virtual information session! You can pop into the meeting at any time during the 30 minutes!

• Wednesday 3/29 5:00-5:30

Sign-up here using this Google Form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct1Fu0JAR0u0EcUXZFnN0K0sAgZX-r27889uOvJAsh53H2kQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) or email, mary.tabb@uconn.edu

Title: "Novel hyperspectral approaches to quantifying taxonomic and functional diversity in terrestrial ecosystems"

ECOM Spotlight Series will host Prof. Hady Ba who will talk about "Ideophones and Expressivism." The event will be held online. Please send an email to aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu for the event link.

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

“Mitochondrial and Genetic Contributors to Parkinson Disease Etiology.”

Rita Cowell, PhD
Fellow and Chair, Department of Neuroscience at Southern Research, Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Alabama

You are invited to the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (HBL 4-209) on March 30, at 12:30PM to attend a talk by Carl Wennerlind, Professor of History at Barnard, on his new book on the history of capitalism: Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Harvard UP, 2023).

The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. This semester we are reading Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister.

Title: "How to charm a cannibalistic mate: using female predator psychology to understand colorful male courtship in jumping spiders"

https://spiderpalooza.wordpress.com

The Gerson Irish Reader 2023 will be Anne Enright, one Ireland’s most renowned contemporary fiction writers. Enright has published seven novels and received the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novel, The Gathering. Enright’s second novel, What Are You Like?, was shortlisted for a 2000 Whitbread Award. Her writing consistently explores family, love, identity and motherhood, and her most recent novel, Actress, was published in 2020.