January 19, 2017
UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2014
Undergraduate Major(s): Chemical Engr
Currently Employed By: Henkel, Medical Application Engineer
Updates: Was just promoted to the Medical Device Application Engineer for North America. I support all the largest medical adhesive manufacturing projects.
UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2009
Undergraduate Major(s): Computer science
Currently Employed By: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Resident physician, Department of Anesthesiology
Updates: Graduating from residency this year, heading to the University of California at San Francisco for a one year fellowship in liver transplant anesthesiology!
UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2016
Undergraduate Major(s): Allied Health Sciences
Currently Employed By: Hartford Hospital, PCA
Updates: Currently in the Masters in Public Health program at UConn Health hoping to graduate in the spring of 2018.
UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2014
Undergraduate Major(s): Dietetics
Currently Employed By:
Updates: After working at Albany Medical Center as a Clinical Dietitian for the past two years, I recently started PA school at Albany Medical College this January. I am very excited for this change of pace and to broaden my knowledge of medicine, and should be graduating in May 2019.
January 3, 2017
Instructor: Elaine Lee
With your advisor’s approval, graduate courses may be included in your Honors Final Plan of Study for graduation. They also count toward your Honors participation requirements.
This graduate level seminar covers the basics of genetics and genomics, personalized and genomic medicine, clinical pathophysiologies, therapeutic approaches, and research into mechanisms of common genetic diseases. This is a wonderful course for anyone interested in understanding genetics and genomics in an interdisciplinary way, organized by disease and the affected biochemical pathways. Our discussion of sophisticated and technical topics is always based on Personalized Medicine with an applied/clinical perspective and will help students gain literacy in some difficult-to-understand topics in an accessible way.
Contact Dr. Lee for a permission number to enroll.
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November 4, 2016
Recognized as one of the leading scholars in American education, Dr. Fetterman is author to 16 books and hundreds of articles and chapters on the subject. The recommendations from his book, Excellence and Equality, led the U.S. Department of Education to formulate a panel to select a national center for the gifted and talented. As an appointed member, Dr. Fetterman recommended the University of Connecticut to the panel, granting the University a $10 million federal award for the National Research Center for the Gifted and Talented, now directed by Dr. Joseph Renzulli. Dr. Fetterman’s fields of expertise include evaluation, medical and teacher education, dropout programs, gifted and talented education, higher education, and distance learning. His empowerment evaluation method (a self-help approach) makes great contribution to the theory and practice of education–and according to the American Evaluation Association, remains “one of the greatest evaluation innovations of the past two decades.”
Dr. Romanoff has witnessed significant gains and challenges in the field of pain management since beginning his career as an anesthesiologist in 1987. The increased use of controlled opioid medications for non-malignant chronic pain has proved controversial, providing much needed aid to many individuals while fostering an epidemic of overdoses and addiction in both patients and society. Dr. Romanoff is on the committee on Narcotic Use and Diversion of the North Carolina Medical Society in North Carolina (NC), one of four states with the highest incidence of abuse. In 2007, Dr. Romanoff helped create a centralized database of all controlled medicines in NC. In addition, he has participated in several state-wide committees focusing on developing protocols and policies for the reporting and monitoring of narcotic use. In 2013, he was selected to participate in Project Lazarus–an educational and mentoring program set up by the NC Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Romanoff’s continued lecturing, mentoring, and advising display his efforts to combat prescription drug abuse and ensure safe access to medication for those in need.
October 24, 2016
Instructor: Kristin Kelly
With your advisor’s approval, graduate courses may be included in your Honors Final Plan of Study for graduation. They also count toward your Honors participation requirements.
This course focuses on the relationship between law and U.S. society. In this seminar, law will be approached as both a political and a cultural institution that constitutes and is constituted by the society within which it operates. The course is organized thematically and will include topics such as the definition of law, law’s violence, law and identity, feminist legal theory, law and social change, law and the “problem” of litigation, and law and social control.
The class will follow a seminar format and the majority of each class period will be devoted to discussing the assigned readings. Participation in seminar discussions is therefore expected as a major component of your responsibilities in this class.
If you have questions about the course or if you would like to request a permission number to enroll please contact Professor Kristin Kelly (kkelly@uconn.edu).
October 18, 2016
Topic: The Art of Storytelling
Instructor: Clare Costley King’oo
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010, 1011, or 2011
In this Honors course, designed primarily for non-English-majors, we will encounter several works judged to be literary masterpieces. Our aim will be to explore the art of imaginative story-telling over time, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century (i.e., from Chaucer to Achebe). We will consider questions of narration, representation, genre, literary authority, intertextuality, and canonicity. Our discoveries will be the focus of our own rigorous writing practices, as we work on improving our argumentative and stylistic skills through a range of reports and essays (with revisions). Lively participation in class discussions will be expected and warmly encouraged.
CA 1, W.
October 17, 2016
Topic: Chinese Literature and Culture
Instructor: Patrick Hogan
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010, 1011, or 2011
This course may be repeated for credit with a change in topic.
The literary and cultural traditions of China are vast. Clearly, one cannot cover anything even approximating their range in a single course. In this class, we will focus on a few elements of Chinese tradition, exploring them in greater detail. Specifically, the course will begin with a careful reading of Confucius with perhaps some reference to Laotze and/or Mencius. We will then work through some Chinese lyric poems, principally following Cai Zong-qi’s How to Read Chinese Poetry. Some of this poetry extends back to the ancient beginnings of Chinese literary tradition. Following this, we will treat a collection of Yuan drama (13th-14th centuries C.E.), focusing on the relation of the works to historical concerns (e.g., Mongol domination and Chinese national identity). After this, we will consider some prose work. Depending on what is available, this may be the first volume of Cao Xueqin’s Story of the Stone (a.k.a., Dream of the Red Chamber, 18th century) or perhaps some popular story, such as the often retold tale of “the butterfly lovers,” Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The final section of the course will treat one or two works of recent Chinese cinema (e.g., Lu Chuan’s Nanjing! Nanjing!), considering both their thematic concerns and their formal techniques. Midterm, final, short written responses to some of the readings, class presentations.
CA 4-Int.
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