Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Ana Cerda

January 23, 2017

UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2013
Undergraduate Major(s): Biology and psychology
Currently Employed By: New England center for children, Special education teacher
Updates: I am currently working on my Masters degree on clinical counseling psychology. I am about halfway done. I continue to work full time at an school for children with autism. In the past year I’ve transferred from the residential program at the school to the day school program.

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Fariya Naz

UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2015
Undergraduate Major(s): Psychology, Cog Sci minor
Currently Employed By: PlusMedia, LLC, Account Coordinator
Updates: I’m working at a media consulting firm. We give strategic advice on advertising. I coordinate those placements for our clients (this includes magazine ads, newspapers, shared mail, etc.). There’s a lot of market research and testing that goes behind any piece of material that a consumer receives from a single company. I work on about five major accounts (ranging from a wine company all the way to life insurance)–all of which are so unique. We test wording, colors, you name it–the amount of scrutiny behind every object in an ad was the most gainful lesson I learned when I dipped my toes in this industry. The scope is huge and I’m enjoying learning more.

This is different from where I thought I was headed; however, I’m certain I have a long way to go even still.

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Brittany Bendel

January 19, 2017

UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2015
Undergraduate Major(s): Chemical Engineering
Currently Employed By: Doosan Fuel Cell America, Fuel Processing Engineer
Updates: This Summer I will start training to become a teacher in secondary math with Teach for America.

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Valen Diaz Grandelski

UConn Year of Graduation (Undergraduate): 2011
Undergraduate Major(s): Individualized – Healthcare and Health Disparities
Currently Employed By: Yale University School of Nursing, Project Manager
Updates: I will graduate with my MPH from SCSU in May 2017. I was selected as a Graduate Research Fellow this semester for my thesis work, which focuses on the effects of a couples-based, relationship-strengthening HIV/STI prevention intervention on parenting outcomes among adolescent parenting couples in New Haven, CT. I also gave a panel presentation as part of the Children’s Health panel at the CPHA Centennial Conference in November 2016 about the previously described intervention.
My sons, Oliver, 4, and Eli, 2, are doing well and will both be starting at new schools in the fall.

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Tom Silva

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.

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Rishi Kothari

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!

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: John Garcia

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.

Rowe Alumni Spotlight: Molly Honda

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.

KINS 6094: Genomics of Inherited Metabolic Diseases

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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2016 Distinguished Alumni Award: David Fetterman

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.”