SHaW is hosting Pet Therapy every Tuesday from 5pm - 7pm at the Cordial Storrs House.
Stop by for some pet therapy love!

We’ve also partnered with the The Benton to host Pet Therapy every first Thursday of the month!
Join us in The Benton from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

Academic Integrity Awareness Week is a week of events hosted by the Writing Center and Library to raise awareness of issues related to academic integrity on campus and foster discussion among students.

Drop in for 5-10 minutes to learn about this semester’s tutoring options, see the space, and grab a handout on citation practices. Led by Writing Center tutors Writing Center.

Students will participate in a week long activity in the courtyard. They will have the opportunity to write encouraging messages to their peers on yellow flags. The flags will be placed in the grass in the courtyard. The flags have a small metal post to stick into the grass.

Co-sponsored by Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies, Political Science, and Dodd Human Rights Impact.
Funding from the Levant Foundation.

Please join us for the Family Law Association’s first general body meeting of the 2023-2024 school year. During this meeting we will be discussing upcoming events for the semester, and conducting E-Board elections for our Social Outreach Chair, Events Coordinator, and 1L Representatives.

Prof. Michael Lublinsky, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University

Magnetic monopole in chiral plasma

Chiral anomaly induces qualitatively new transport phenomena in finite temperature plasma of massless fermions. In the first part of the talk, we will explore the effect of a magnetic monopole inserted into chiral plasma. Next, we will present various novel anomaly induced phenomena discovered in a holographically defined model.

Graduate student Phi-Hung Tran, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

An accurate semiclassical method for constructing photoelectron momentum distribution for atoms and molecules in intense lasers

We propose a version of the semiclassical method based on the Herman-Kluk propagator combined with the strong-field approximation for atoms and molecules in intense lasers. Here we illustrate the application of the method for calculation of photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) for different atoms (H, Ar, Ne, and Xe) in intense few-cycle laser pulses. We show that the constructed PMDs agree very well with the exact numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We further show that our method provides a clear physical interpretation for the validity of the factorization of the recollision process. In contrast to the common belief that there are two paths, so-called long and short trajectories, we found that there are typically multiple trajectories that lead to a given final momentum in the high-energy region. Accurate phases of those trajectories are needed to obtain correct interference patterns in the PMD. Our method can be used to extend current capabilities of laser-induced electron diffraction and other ultrafast imaging and strong-field spectroscopic techniques.

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with CT Foodshare and opened the Husky Harvest Food Pantry and Clothes Closet at the Law School! The pantry is located in the basement of Starr Hall, room G01, and our hours for the fall semester will be Tuesdays from 12 - 2pm, Thursdays from 4 - 6pm, and other times by appointment (please send all appointment requests to lawfoodpantry@uconn.edu).

Students will participate in a week long activity in the courtyard. They will have the opportunity to write encouraging messages to their peers on yellow flags. The flags will be placed in the grass in the courtyard. The flags have a small metal post to stick into the grass.

Join one of our upcoming sessions:

• September 12, 9-10am
• September 13, 11:30am-12:30pm
• September 18, 1-2pm

To attend, please RSVP to alexa.biron@uconn.edu with the date & time you would like to attend.

Learn more about the Events Calendar and access our Knowledge Base articles.

Join one of our upcoming sessions:

• September 12, 9-10am
• September 13, 11:30am-12:30pm
• September 18, 1-2pm

To attend, please RSVP to alexa.biron@uconn.edu with the date & time you would like to attend.

Learn more about the Events Calendar and access our Knowledge Base articles.

Academic Integrity Awareness Week is a week of events hosted by the Writing Center and Library to raise awareness of issues related to academic integrity on campus and foster discussion among students.

Drop in for 5-10 minutes to learn about this semester’s tutoring options, see the space, and grab a handout on citation practices. Led by Writing Center tutors Writing Center.

Academic Integrity Awareness Week is a week of events hosted by the Writing Center and Library to raise awareness of issues related to academic integrity on campus and foster discussion among students.

Drop in for 5-10 minutes to learn about this semester’s tutoring options, see the space, and grab a handout on citation practices. Led by Writing Center tutors Writing Center.

This event aims to enhance student’s awareness of the diverse range of resources, services, and experiences within the career and professional development process. This collaborative event is between the Center for Career Development and the School of Business. We have organized a monthly gathering in the Hartford Times Building in the Travelers Collaborative Lounge to achieve this. During the event, students will hear from experienced guest speakers who will provide advice and perspective on various professional development topics. This event is open to all students, and pre-registration is encouraged but not required.

Register for this event on Handshake.

This event aims to enhance student’s awareness of the diverse range of resources, services, and experiences within the career and professional development process. This collaborative event is between the Center for Career Development and the School of Business. We have organized a monthly gathering in the Hartford Times Building in the Travelers Collaborative Lounge to achieve this. During the event, students will hear from experienced guest speakers who will provide advice and perspective on various professional development topics. This event is open to all students, and pre-registration is encouraged but not required.

Register for this event on Handshake.

IRAP organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. Mobilizing direct legal aid, litigation, and systematic advocacy, IRAP serves the world’s most persecuted individuals and empowers the next generation of human rights leaders. This GBM will provide information about our projects, upcoming events, and 1L representative position.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson works on disability culture, bioethics, and critical theory; she is a Hastings Center Fellow and Senior Advisor and professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. This workshop offers knowledge case studies for how critical disability studies can and does appear in curriculum, research, teaching, practice, the arts, policy, and healthcare ethics. The workshop will provide academic resources as examples of this expansion of critical and cultural disability studies from theory into practice. Lunch will be provided to participants.

* Attendance will be capped — please RSVP by 9/8/23 at: https://forms.gle/5LBfMNmbK57d99Jt8

What could be a better way to start your final year at UConn Waterbury than celebrating with a sparkling cider toast and delicious bites? Mark your calendars for a SENIORS ONLY event on Tuesday, September 12th from 1:00-2:00 PM in the MPR.

Are you a CLAS transfer and campus change student new to Storrs? You may be starting to feel comfortable getting around the Storrs campus, but you may not know what our Student Leadership and Programming Office offers or what clubs we have on campus. Join other new transfer and campus change students and attend this short 30-40-minute program. Light refreshments will be provided.

Sign up today for the first virtual session, “Mastering the CEO Mindset: Strategies for Success”

Are you ready to jumpstart your career and make meaningful connections in your field of interest? Look no further than Energy Boosts with Dominion Energy – a 4-part webinar series designed just for you! Through this comprehensive learning experience, you’ll get an inside look at Dominion Energy’s company culture and discover the career development opportunities available to you. We’re committed to building long-term relationships with students like you and fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce for the future.

During each online event, you’ll have the chance to engage with industry experts, ask questions, and gain valuable insights into your chosen field. Whether you’re interested in engineering, sustainability, or business, we’ve got something for you. 

The academic field we now call critical
disability studies developed in the last
decades of the twentieth century from
sociology, medical anthropology, and
healthcare fields into a fuller disciplinary
knowledge enterprise, complete with
academic specializations, degree
programs, academic journals,
conferences, professional organizational
structures, and broad recognition as a
useful competence in employment. This
lecture traces this knowledge emergence
and some of the work it does in the
world.

The lecture will have CART captioning
and ASL interpretation. If you require
an alternative format flyer or
accommodation to participate, please
contact Carolyn Conway (AY23-24
WGSS Curriculum Coordinator) at
carolyn.conway@uconn.edu by 9/4/23.

A Student-Centered Method for Teaching W Courses in STEM
Tuesday, September 12, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Led by Robert Thorson, Professor of Earth Sciences
Location: HBL 2134 / Writing Center Conference Room / Babbidge Library, 2nd Floor

In contrast to most W-courses, our pedagogy for ERTH 2050: Communicating Earth and Environmental Science involves using short weekly assignments that are easy to grade and have a quick turn-around times. We emphasize discrete writing tools: definitions, descriptions, reports, hypotheses, interpretations, audio-scripts, video storyboards, and website texts. The workshop will be in-person and the goal is to share our experience and seek input from others.

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2895

SHaW is hosting Pet Therapy every Tuesday from 5pm - 7pm at the Cordial Storrs House.
Stop by for some pet therapy love!

We’ve also partnered with the The Benton to host Pet Therapy every first Thursday of the month!
Join us in The Benton from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

Academic Integrity Awareness Week is a week of events hosted by the Writing Center and Library to raise awareness of issues related to academic integrity on campus and foster discussion among students.

Learn about this semester’s tutoring options. Led by Writing Center tutors.

Access via “Course Room” in Collaborate: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/8641eae5f0ee4153a1d637ac6e0fd243

Study Plans, Wellness Activities, Learning Resources, Managing CLIC, LEAP Preparation, and many more topics related to first year! Followed by a “social hour” where you are welcome to talk to GHHS M4s specifically.

Students will participate in a week long activity in the courtyard. They will have the opportunity to write encouraging messages to their peers on yellow flags. The flags will be placed in the grass in the courtyard. The flags have a small metal post to stick into the grass.

Enhancing student engagement with the readings

Online, link will be sent with registration
Presenter: Tina Huey, CETL-Faculty Development

Can students meet your course objectives without reading the texts? If so, what is the value of assigning reading in your course? What learning objectives does reading help students meet? These foundational questions will frame our discussion. Techniques and tools will be introduced for:

• “Guided reading” facilitation
• Creating a reading guide
• Annotation tools (Perusall, Voicethread)
• Games, remixes, and other activities for engaging with a text
• Modeling engagement

Ideas will be shared for curating a reading list, including: alphabetic texts vs. audio and video; amount of reading assigned; and organizing access to course readings. This is an interactive session and participants are encouraged to share their experiences and questions.

Wednesday, September 13, 9:00 - 10:00
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2872

Have you ever considered exploring the possibility of an internship or volunteer work? These Workin’ Wednesdays tabling events provide an excellent platform for students to interact informally with employers, discussing various opportunities such as internships, volunteer positions, and career prospects. These conversations also offer valuable insights into organizational culture and guide how to secure a job within those organizations. Join us bi-weekly to engage in meaningful discussions with representatives from diverse organizations, opening doors to exciting prospects for your future.

Academic Integrity Awareness Week is a week of events hosted by the Writing Center and Library to raise awareness of issues related to academic integrity on campus and foster discussion among students.

Expand your understanding of the function of citations through this presentation, which highlights systemic inequalities in scholarship and identifies strategies for more inclusive citation practices. Led by Waterbury’s Library Director, Rob Walsh.

Join Waterbury Campus Library Director Rob Walsh as he discusses the politics and function of citations by highlighting systemic inequalities in scholarship and identifying strategies for more inclusive citation practices. This session will also explore what “authority” means (and which voices are traditionally excluded).

LIVE PODCAST RECORDING: Join us for a live recording of the UConnPopCast featuring Prof. Danielle Lindemann, author of True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. How do The Bachelor, Survivor, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Project Runway, and other reality shows reinforce and challenge our views of class, race, family, couples, sexuality, and gender?

Participate in this live recording as an audience member - and ask Prof. Lindemann your question about reality TV - from 12-1pm on Wednesday September 13th in the UCHI Conference Room (Homer Babbage Library, 4th Floor). FREE FOOD!

Prof. Danielle Lindemann is an associate professor of sociology at LeHigh University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and CNN.com. She recently featured in the Amazon Prime documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.

All students are welcome to RSVP to attend the Werth Institute’s Welcome Back BBQ event. Come by and visit with Werth Institute staff, Werth Innovators and students interested in entrepreneurship! Swag and food will be given out.

RSVP to attend today!

Traci Cipriano is the author of The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession. She will be speaking to students about her career, her new book and how students and lawyers can balance their mental health and legal careers. This event is imperative to the Mental Health Committee’s mission of ending mental health stigma in the legal profession and in law schools.

Come learn about the Business and Transactional Law Society!

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.

BSA will be meeting weekly from 3:00pm-4:00pm! All are welcome!

STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

Caiwen Ding, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
University of Connecticut

Design of Efficient and Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
The rapid deployment of machine learning system has witnessed various challenges such as high computation and privacy/security concerns. In this talk, we will first discuss the current challenges and advances in efficient machine learning. We will present several machine learning accelerations through algorithm-hardware codesign, on various computing platforms such as GPU, MCU, and ReRAM. On the other hand, Machine-Learning-As-A-Service (MLaaS) provides cloud-based tools to mitigate the cost and risk of building individual ML platforms. Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) serves as a good solution to protect sensitive user data. However, the introduced crypto-primitives come at extra high computation and communication overhead and potentially prohibit the machine learning popularity. We will present a systematic acceleration framework that enables low latency, high energy efficiency & accuracy, and security-guaranteed machine learning.

Bio: Caiwen Ding is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He received his Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Boston in 2019, supervised by Prof. Yanzhi Wang. His research interests mainly include efficient machine learning system, privacy preserving machine learning. His work has been published in high-impact venues (e.g., DAC, ICCAD, ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, SC, FPGA, Oakland, CCS, MLSys, CVPR, IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, ICML, EMNLP, ICRA, DATE, IEEE TCAD, IEEE TPDS). He has received the best paper nomination at DATE 2018 and DATE 2021, best paper award at the DL-Hardware Co-Design for AI Acceleration (DCAA) workshop at AAAI 2023, publicity paper at DAC 2022, and the 2021 Excellent in Teaching Award from UConn Provost. His team won first place in accuracy and fourth place overall at the 2022 TinyML Design Contest at ICCAD. His research has been funded by NSF, DOE, USDA, SRC, and multiple industry sponsors such as Travelers, Eversource.
DATE: Wednesday, 9/13/23
TIME: 4:00 PM
PLACE: AUST 110
WebEx:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m2a48b2ad075ed47c57db6425daccde93

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

Are you planning to attend the STEM Career Fair on September 20? Are you nervous about how to approach employers and best showcase your skills and experience? Come and hear from career fair employers about what to expect and how to prepare for the upcoming STEM Fair. We’ll cover how to determine which employers to visit ahead of time, get conversations with employers started, what to say to secure an employer’s interest, and answer any specific questions you have.

This is a in-person event and will be held in C80 of the ITE (Information Technologies Engineering Building) between 5:00pm - 7:00pm and is a great opportunity to start a conversation with the companies represented.

Bring a friend and see you there!

Introductory meeting and Q/A Session with UConn Urology Students.

Study Plans, Wellness Activities, Learning Resources, Managing CLIC, LEAP Preparation, and many more topics related to first year! Followed by a “social hour” where you are welcome to talk to GHHS M4s specifically.

Students will participate in a week long activity in the courtyard. They will have the opportunity to write encouraging messages to their peers on yellow flags. The flags will be placed in the grass in the courtyard. The flags have a small metal post to stick into the grass.

Relations between Internet Experiences and Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth’s Identity Development

JOIN US!

For the Annual Student Health and Wellness Fair brought to you by UConn Student Health and Wellness.
This event is FREE for everyone and will cover Fairfield Way on September 14th from 9:30am-2pm; rain date September 21st.

Fairfield Way will be lined with UConn’s and the surrounding community’s clubs, health care providers, health resources, fun activities, FREE giveaways, important information, and MUCH MORE!

There will be FREE games, prizes, food, SWAG, brochures, opportunities, and fun for all!

Don’t miss this annual event! We can’t wait to see you there!

For more information, contact: Amy Dunham at amy.dunham@uconn.edu or Alex Wright at alexander.j.wright@uconn.edu

UConn/DMHAS is collecting survey data for an IRB approved research.

Come join Kelvin Young as he leads a Sound Healing Journey to help move, process, and begin to heal from Grief and Loss. Kelvin Young is a certified sound healer, recovery support specialist and co-founder of Soul Care Love, LLC. Sound healing is the use of specific instruments, music, tones, and other sonic vibrations to balance and heal the body, mind, and spirit. This event is open to students, staff and faculty however will be limited to 15 participants. Contact naa.opoku-gyamfi@uconn.edu to RSVP or for any questions.
Sound healing is the use of specific instruments, music, tones, and other sonic vibrations to balance and heal the body, mind, and spirit

Academic Integrity Awareness Week is a week of events hosted by the Writing Center and Library to raise awareness of issues related to academic integrity on campus and foster discussion among students.

Film Screening of Shattered Glass, based on the true story of professional journalist Stephen Glass, who fabricated stories and sources.

Register in person or here: (link TBD)

First general body meeting for Human Rights Law Association (HRLA). Will discuss events, projects, and 1L/LLM representative positions. HRLA is an organization of students committed to cultivating student and community awareness and involvement in domestic and international human rights issues, and fostering professional development opportunities for its members.

General body meeting for The Federalist Society

Facilitating class discussions

Online, link will be sent with registration
Presenter: Tina Huey, CETL-Faculty Development

Do you find yourself staring down a room full of silent students when you pose a question? Or do you want ideas for how to manage the flow of a very active discussion? Are you wondering how to assess class participation in discussions? Come to this teaching talk! Topics of interest to participants may include:

• The benefits of multi-modality & multimedia
• Socratic methods, synthesizing, and connecting the dots
• Designing your course to activate student voice
• Using movement, voice, signposting, and wait time
• Supporting equitable participation
• Assessing discussion participation
• Generating engaging questions

Thursday, September 14, 2:00 - 3:00
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2874

Facilitating class discussions

Online, link will be sent with registration
Presenter: Tina Huey, CETL-Faculty Development

Do you find yourself staring down a room full of silent students when you pose a question? Or do you want ideas for how to manage the flow of a very active discussion? Are you wondering how to assess class participation in discussions? Come to this teaching talk! Topics of interest to participants may include:

• The benefits of multi-modality & multimedia
• Socratic methods, synthesizing, and connecting the dots
• Designing your course to activate student voice
• Using movement, voice, signposting, and wait time
• Supporting equitable participation
• Assessing discussion participation
• Generating engaging questions

Thursday, September 14, 2:00 - 3:00
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2874

Preparing for the Honolulu 2024 Annual Meeting webinar series

Hawai‘i Habitation: Consequences of Human Values

https://www.aag.org/webinar/hawaii-habitation

meeting for Team-TERRA fellows to discuss project details.

LLSA invites you to our first event of the semester, come celebrate with us at our Hispanic Heritage Month Kick Off on Thursday, September 14th at 5pm in the Starr Reading Room.
We will also be hosting our first general body meeting where you can learn more about LLSA, 1L rep applications, and more!

An opportunity for M2 students to ask M4 students questions about second year. Particularly, an early chance to gain more information about STEP 1 studying. This includes resources to use, creating a schedule, and how to approach reviewing UWorld questions.

Join the Family Medicine Interest Group in our annual Family Medicine Mythbusting event where we correct some common misconceptions about Family Medicine

Students will participate in a week long activity in the courtyard. They will have the opportunity to write encouraging messages to their peers on yellow flags. The flags will be placed in the grass in the courtyard. The flags have a small metal post to stick into the grass.

Join us for a talk in Logic Colloquium!

Andrew Tedder (Institut Wiener Kreis, Vienna)

Negated Implications in Connexive Relevant Logics

This talk investigates the odd fact that one may add connexive theses to relevant logics, giving rise to contraclassical systems, and obtain logics which are not trivial, still obey many of the desired relevance properties, and yet allow one to prove every negated implication. I’ll show why this is the case, and investigate alternative connexive relevant logics in the area that don’t have this undesirable property.

All welcome!

Please join us on 9/15/23, 3-4 PM for the virtual info session about the Physiology and Neurobiology Department Masters in Surgical Neurophysiology. That is a one-year Professional Master, offered every year, starting in summer session 1.
Program Directors, Dr. Andalib and Dr. Filipovic will be discussing the program and admission for the next cycle in 2024.

Please register here: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=dd85863c-8756-4c73-bd1c-1e60f85a4dee

Professional cV Workshop for SNMA members

The annual Rainbow Center Welcome Back Bash will be held on Friday Sep. 15, 2023 from 6-8pm in the Rainbow Center program room. Light refreshments will be served.

Coed indoor soccer

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, by calling 860-486-8580, or online at bimp.ticketleap.com. A surcharge will be added to any purchases made online. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ballard Institute on the day of the performance starting at 10 a.m. There will be open seating and no reservations. Visitors can park in the Storrs Center Garage located at 33 Royce Circle. For more information about these performances or if you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860-486-8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.

Students will be provided with snack and water packs while hiking locally in order to relieve stress.

Mix, mingle, and network from 11am-1pm the week of Sept. 18th, with different departments and majors to learn about different pathways to career goals.

This is an Honors event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Career, Professional, & Personal Development.

#UHLevent10530

Prof. P. Mannheim, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

Normalization of the vacuum and the ultraviolet completion of Einstein gravity

Second-order-derivative plus fourth-order-derivative gravity is the ultraviolet completion of second-order-derivative quantum Einstein gravity. While it achieves renormalizability through states of negative Dirac norm, the unitarity violation that this would entail can be postponed to Planck energies. As we show in this paper the theory has a different problem, one that occurs at all energy scales, namely that the Dirac norm of the vacuum of the theory is not finite. To establish this we present a procedure for determining the norm of the vacuum in any quantum field theory. With the Dirac norm of the vacuum of the second-order-derivative plus fourth-order-derivative theory not being finite, the Feynman rules that are used to establish renormalizability are not valid, as is the assumption that the theory can be used as an effective theory at energies well below the Planck scale. This lack of finiteness is also manifested in the fact that the Minkowski path integral for the theory is divergent. Because the vacuum Dirac norm is not finite, the Hamiltonian of the theory is not Hermitian. However, it turns out to be PT-symmetric. And when one continues the theory into the complex plane and uses the PT-symmetry inner product, viz. the overlap of the left-eigenstate of the Hamiltonian with its right-eigenstate, one then finds that for the vacuum this norm is both finite and positive, the Feynman rules now are valid, the Minkowski path integral now is well behaved, and the theory now can serve as a low energy effective theory. Consequently, the theory can now be offered as a fully consistent, unitary, and renormalizable theory of quantum gravity.

Dissertation title: At the Edge of Contact: Insights from the Left Peripheries of Singlish (Linguistics)

The Offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and the University of Connecticut School of Law are hosting an event on “How to be a Judge in State Court.” The panel discussion will be held on Monday, September 18, 2023 at 6pm. Check-in/Networking will begin at 5:30pm.

Speakers will include:
Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz
Leander Dolphin, Chair of the Judicial Selection Commission
Natalie Braswell, Governor’s Office General Counsel
State Senator Gary Winfield, Judiciary Committee, Co-Chair
Judge Vikki Cooper
Judge Walter Menjivar
Judge Emily Wagner

Those attending in person are asked to arrive promptly and to email christine.jean-louis@ct.gov to register for head count.

Virtual attendants are asked to register at: https://bit.ly/HTBAJ

The forum will also be broadcast via Ballard Institute Facebook Live (facebook.com/BallardInstitute). Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. For more information or if you require accommodation to attend a forum, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860.486.8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.

Mix, mingle, and network from 11am-1pm the week of Sept. 18th, with different departments and majors to learn about different pathways to career goals.

This is an Honors event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Career, Professional, & Personal Development.

#UHLevent10530

Engage with top employers looking to hire! Not graduating yet? Prepare for your career future: talk with employers and see what’s out there. Learn about incredible internship, co-op, and full-time opportunities! All students are welcome to attend, regardless of your major. The All-University Fair is on Tuesday, 9/19 and will feature employers interested in hiring all majors. The STEM Fair, Wednesday, 9/20, will host employers looking for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math students.

Dahlia Scheindlin is a fellow at Century International, based in Tel Aviv. She is a public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant, as well as a scholar and a writer. She has advised and conducted research on eight national campaigns in Israel over twenty years, and has provided research and advising for elections, referendums, and civil society campaigns in fifteen different countries and regions (Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, the United States, and Zanzibar). In the past, she has worked as a senior analyst for the Washington-based global firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQRR), the director of international campaigns at GCS Issue Management, and a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute. As an independent consultant, she conducts extensive public opinion and policy research on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the peace process (including working for Prime Minister Ehud Barak during the Camp David negotiations in 2000, through GQRR). She also consults on the issues of democracy, human rights, minority relations, religious identity, Arab–Jewish relations, and foreign affairs. She conducts the ongoing joint Israeli–Palestinian public opinion survey together with the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. Scheindlin completed her PhD in political science at Tel Aviv University, where she wrote about unrecognized states emerging from ethnonationalist conflicts (focusing on Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, and Nagorno-Karabakh). She has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, the Jezreel Valley College, and at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus. She has given individual lectures at Columbia, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, and George Washington University, among others. Scheindlin is a founding member of +972 Magazine. 

Co-sponsored by Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies and Political Science.

Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas will be visiting the UCONN-Stamford campus to speak with students about voter registration, civic engagement, civic literacy, and election security.

To attend virtually: link TBD

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Social Change, Service, & Sustainability OR Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement.

#UHLevent10541

Stop by the green outside of the School of Business for an evening of mingling with UConn entrepreneurs and enjoying UConn Dairy Bar ice cream!

Event Agenda:
5:00pm - 6:00pm : Learn about all 14 programs that CCEI offers for aspiring entrepreneurs, including Get Seeded, Traction, Summer Fellowship and more! Mix and mingle with former program participants and hear about their experiences.

5:15pm - 5:45pm : Listen to a Q+A from program alumni, and hear about their startups and how CCEI’s programs aided in their entrepreneurial journey.

5:45pm - 6:00pm : Participate in speed networking and see if your next cofounder is right here at UConn!

Entrepreneurs and Ice Cream 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. For more info: ccei.uconn.edu

SHaW is hosting Pet Therapy every Tuesday from 5pm - 7pm at the Cordial Storrs House.
Stop by for some pet therapy love!

We’ve also partnered with the The Benton to host Pet Therapy every first Thursday of the month!
Join us in The Benton from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

Question and answer session with Dr. Rodner regarding a career in orthopedic surgery.

Facilitating group work in small to medium undergraduate classes and labs

Online, link will be sent with registration

Presenter: Tina Huey, CETL-Faculty Development

Group activities and projects benefit student learning, but they can be challenging to manage – both for the students and for the instructor. Are you looking for ideas for in-class group activities? Would you like to know some ways to support students engaged in longer-term group projects or labs? Are you interested in connecting with other instructors to hear about their experiences with student groups? This is an interactive session for participants to discuss with one another, facilitated by CETL staff. Evidence for the benefits of group work will be shared, along with ideas for structuring it.

Proposed Objectives of this Session:

• Discuss the affordances of, and objectives for, group activities during class
• Become aware of options for structuring group activities during class
• Discuss design of longer term collaborative assignments
• Share ideas for addressing challenges, including free riders, conflict, and assessment
• Share what’s on your mind

Wednesday, September 20, 10:00 - 11:00

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2877

Mix, mingle, and network from 11am-1pm the week of Sept. 18th, with different departments and majors to learn about different pathways to career goals.

This is an Honors event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Career, Professional, & Personal Development.

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Coffee with COP. Waterbury PD and UCONN PD are parting with this event.

Engage with top employers looking to hire! Not graduating yet? Prepare for your career future: talk with employers and see what’s out there. Learn about incredible internship, co-op, and full-time opportunities! All students are welcome to attend, regardless of your major. The All-University Fair is on Tuesday, 9/19 and will feature employers interested in hiring all majors. The STEM Fair, Wednesday, 9/20, will host employers looking for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math students.

If you are a member of a student organization executive board, or aspire to be, the Office of Student Affairs invites you to the Student Leader Summit. Students will learn about resources and support available from the Office of Student Affairs and get an introduction to the student organization management system. A review of pertinent policies and new platforms that are available to students will also be included.

RSVP with this form.

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.

The Association Between Patient-Centered Communication & Psychological and Physical Health of Cancer Survivors: The Potential Role of Worry about Cancer Recurrence, Pessimism & Social Isolation

Dr. Oleg Gorobtsov, Cornell University

In quantum materials, coexistent degrees of freedom such as spin, charge, and lattice respond in concert to various external stimuli including light and electrical current. Understanding the interactions between these degrees of freedom and stimuli promises advances in technology from next-generation electronics to energy storage. From coexistent emergent phases and far-from-equilibrium states to topological defects and nanomaterial morphology, nanostructural heterogeneities in space and time connected to crystal lattice commonly underpin the material behavior. Breakthrough coherent X-ray scattering techniques at novel X-ray sources capture nanoscale changes in lattice in-situ to connect them to macroscopic properties. Precise control over lattice dynamics by photoexcitations on sub-picosecond timescales sheds light on interaction between lattice dynamics and electronic order in chromium, an archetypal density wave material. In Mott insulators, nanoscale measurements reveal novel hierarchy and transition behavior of heterogeneities during metal-insulator transitions. Unique capabilities of coherent X-ray science offer us glimpses into the physics of phase transition in quantum materials and future design possibilities.

Regulation of Atherosclerotic Plaque Immune Cell Composition by Endothelial Ptbp1 and Elavl1. PhD in Biomedical Science.

Dr. Danielle Brick, University of Connecticut

Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2023. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT. This workshop will take place on the GBLC campus, but is open to all F-1 UConn students. Advance registration is required for in-person workshops and seats are limited. To register please sign up on the link below: http://icworkshops.uconn.edu ** You must attend the workshop for the whole hour in order to obtain full credit. You will be required to check-in at the beginning of the workshop, if you are running more than 5 minutes late, please attend the next available workshop.

Mix, mingle, and network from 11am-1pm the week of Sept. 18th, with different departments and majors to learn about different pathways to career goals.

This is an Honors event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Career, Professional, & Personal Development.

#UHLevent10530

Project meeting for Team-TERRA fellows.

Dr. Alexander Diener
Associate Chair & Professor of Geography
Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science
University of Kansas

Abstract: Place attachment is a burgeoning field of scholarship maturing in theory, method, and application. The phenomenon obviously relates to concepts of residency, including key questions such as: Who moves and why? Who stays and why? Who returns and why? But place attachment also encompasses broader networks of place and geographic contingency, including questions such as: How do place attachments form? Why do people form attachments to some places and not others? How are concepts of home and homeland negotiated within and across varied conditions of mobility? In this talk, Alexander Diener approaches place attachment as an assemblage of materiality, performance, and narration. Rather than being static or deterministic, this model points to people’s varied capacities to make and remake place attachments, and how this shapes everyday routines (e.g. routes to work, shopping, social interactions), major life choices (e.g. places of residence, education, vacations), and identities (e.g. civic, national, religious).

Keywords: place attachment, territorialization, environmental psychology, homeland, place identity, place dependency

Join us for the third annual WiSFiRE conference, a one-day event featuring technical talks, a career panel and networking opportunities with women faculty in STEM at UConn. Come hear about their exciting research and how they have built their scientific careers!

Featuring faculty from the School of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts and Science, as well as alumni.

Free and open to all undergraduate and graduate students.

Register at https://wisfire2023.eventbrite.com/

Facilitating class discussions

Online, link will be sent with registration
Presenter: Tina Huey, CETL-Faculty Development

Do you find yourself staring down a room full of silent students when you pose a question? Or do you want ideas for how to manage the flow of a very active discussion? Are you wondering how to assess class participation in discussions? Come to this teaching talk! Topics of interest to participants may include:

• The benefits of multi-modality & multimedia
• Socratic methods, synthesizing, and connecting the dots
• Designing your course to activate student voice
• Using movement, voice, signposting, and wait time
• Supporting equitable participation
• Assessing discussion participation
• Generating engaging questions

Friday, September 22, 12:00 - 1:00

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2875

Civil Rights Cinema

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

The Africana Studies Institute, in partnership with SCHOLA2RS House and BSOUL House, presents: Civil Rights Cinema on Freedom Fridays. Civil Rights Cinema is a semester-long film series, showcasing films that dramatize the Black freedom struggle in the United States.

Synopsis of the film

Preparing for the Honolulu 2024 Annual Meeting webinar series

Restoring Waiwai: Redefining Wealth to Foster Health & Abundance

https://www.aag.org/webinar/restoring-waiwai

Coed indoor soccer

We are hosting a 5k for anyone who would love to participate. Walkers and runners are welcome! Food and drinks will be provided as well!

Pre-registration fees are $15 per runner and $20 for day-of signups. Those who register early will get a free t-shirt!

https://www.events.foundation.uconn.edu/ereg/index.php?eventid=760646&

For those who are unaware, South Park is a free medical and dental clinic that provides primary care services to local residents, serving over 750 patients per year. It is run by our students and volunteers. This fundraiser is to help provide resources for the clinic and residents of South Park Inn.

Lorgia García Peña, Princeton University Professor of African American Studies & Effron Center for the Study of America

TRANSLATING BLACKNESS: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

the annual Luis B. Eyzaguirre Memorial lecture

Tuesday 9/26, 4 pm, Konover Auditorium

Sponsors: Luis. B. Eyzaguirre Memorial Lecture Fund; El Instituto: Institute for Latina/o, Caribbean & Latin American Studies; Spanish (Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages

SHaW is hosting Pet Therapy every Tuesday from 5pm - 7pm at the Cordial Storrs House.
Stop by for some pet therapy love!

We’ve also partnered with the The Benton to host Pet Therapy every first Thursday of the month!
Join us in The Benton from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.