July 8, 2013
William Brustein ’69 (CLAS) was awarded the 2013 Charles Klasek Award for long-term and outstanding service to the field of International Education Administration by the Association of International Education Administrators at the Association’s 2013 annual conference. (more…)
Summer is upon us—the days are longer and our busy campus is quieter. I’m often asked if we get the summer off, and the truth is that our “summer” is quite short. We move almost immediately from the joy of the Honors Medals Ceremony and Commencement to the nervous excitement of first-year student orientation. When orientation ends in July, we scatter for a little rest and relaxation before diving head-first into annual reports and planning. This leads us squarely to August, which is consumed by preparing for the first-year students’ arrival at the end of the month. But in truth, I wouldn’t have summer any other way. I’m always a little restless without students, and there is something fitting about spending our time between semesters saying good-bye to students we are now so proud to call Honors alumni and welcoming the Class of 2017 to our Honors Family. (more…)
June 8, 2013
The Young Honors Alumni Fund, which began in 2011, was sparked by the positive experiences of three Honors alumni: Nate Eaton ’05 (CLAS, BUSN), Ajay Madkekar ’06 (BUSN), and Chintan Bhatt ’07 (ENGR). These three friends and classmates established the fund by making the initial gifts and have since worked to help engage other young Honors alumni to give back as well. The fund is specifically geared toward helping support Honors student organizations such as the Honors Council and Leadership in Action (formerly the Global Leadership Commission), which the three men were members or leaders of, during their undergraduate careers in the UConn Honors Program. (more…)
May 31, 2013
By Cathleen Torrisi
New UConn graduate Brian Coleman ’13 (ENG) recently completed a major accomplishment. And not just by graduating as an Honors Scholar with a strong GPA in the demanding biomedical engineering program. His senior design project – a robotic arm – so impressed director of undergraduate biomedical engineering Donald Peterson that he is arranging for Coleman to present it to a team of NASA engineers at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. (more…)
May 10, 2013
By Chris DeFrancesco
Commencement 2013 marks a milestone for UConn’s John and Valerie Rowe Health Professions Scholars Program for undergraduates.
Monday, Shawnet Jones becomes the first Rowe scholar to graduate from the UConn School of Medicine.
Jones was part of the first class of Rowe Scholars, which helped enable her to attend UConn’s Combined Program in Medicine, starting in 2005 as an undergraduate. She credits the Rowe scholarship and the UConn Health Center’s Health Career Opportunities Programs (HCOP) as being vital to her growth as a student-turned-physician. (more…)
May 6, 2013
Chad Landmon is Co-Chair of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP’s Intellectual Property Practice and Chair of the FDA Practice Group. He is recognized as a leading advocate for pharmaceutical companies before FDA and premier patent litigator and counselor on issues involving the development and marketing of generic drugs and human tissue. He has a rare knowledge of intricate FDA processes and litigating complex patent cases involving drug products throughout the country. (more…)
Dr. Anthony “Tony” Chiodo is currently a professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers. There, he directs the multidisciplinary Spine Program for the management of patients with conditions and pain of the spine. He is also medical director and co-principal investigator of the Spinal Cord Injury Model System at the University of Michigan, one of fourteen such centers funded by the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. He directs and started the Adult Spasticity Clinic and was a founder of the Adult Assisted Ventilation Clinic. His current research interests include pain after spinal cord injury, sleep disordered breathing after spinal cord injury, and interventional management of painful spine conditions. (more…)
Professor Neafsey emigrated from Granby, Quebec before high school. She considered a major in computer science at Cornell, but decided computers needed to be more “usable” for her poor punch card typing skills. She joined the honors program in nutrition at Cornell and received her B.S. and M.S. in nutritional biochemistry. Following research stints at Penn and Yale, she obtained a teaching position at Albertus Magnus College and provided nutrition counseling services at two primary care practices in New Haven. Her interest in drug-nutrient interactions led her to pursue a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology at UConn followed by post-doctoral work at Tufts University. She was at Tufts when the UConn School of Nursing contacted her to help them develop a graduate pharmacotherapy course and an undergraduate curriculum that integrates pathophysiology, pharmacology, and nutrition over a series of courses. After one semester of teaching UConn nursing students, she was hooked! (more…)
Rebecca Flanagan is a lifelong Husky, but her path back to UConn took her across the country. She graduated from UConn as an Honors Scholar, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1999, with a B.A. in English and political science. After a year spent working as a reading tutor, a waitress, and a barista, she returned to UConn to pursue an M.A. in elementary education. (more…)
March 26, 2013
By Lauren Lalancette
Shervin Etemad ’14 (CLAS) entered UConn with a declared major and has never wavered – but as graduation approaches, he’s becoming increasingly open-minded about his career path.
A molecular and cell biology major from the beginning, Etemad wasn’t among the one-third of freshmen who enter UConn without having chosen a major. A Trumbull native, he graduated in the top 4 percent of his high school class, and accepted UConn’s Academic Excellence merit scholarship along with an invitation to join the Honors Program. (more…)