By PRNewswire
The Food and Drug Law Institute will honor four outstanding food and drug law professionals with its annual Distinguished Service and Leadership Award: Minnie Baylor-Henry, Alan Bennett, Thomas O. Henteleff and John M. Taylor III. Continue reading
By Kristina Goodnough, UConn Foundation
Norman BenderPat and Norman Bender got so much satisfaction from the first scholarship fund they established at UConn, they decided to set up a second one.
Both scholarships support students in the School of Nursing from which Pat graduated in 1969.
The first was established in 2004 in honor of Pat’s father, Robert A. Matheson, a 1941 graduate of UConn. “My father was extremely supportive of higher education and devoted to UConn his entire life,” says Pat. They established the scholarship shortly before Matheson died. “We were able to alert friends and family members that they could make donations to his scholarship fund in his memory. It was comforting for them and for us,” says Pat. Continue reading
By Colin Poitras
For the second time in four years, a University of Connecticut student has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship.
Ethan Butler, a 2012 chemical engineering graduate and past president of the UConn chapter of Engineers Without Borders, will spend the next two years in the United Kingdom pursuing his graduate studies at one, and possibly two, of Britain’s finest academic and research institutions. Continue reading
To our Honors alumni,
For more than nine years, I have had the pleasure of working at the University of Connecticut. Most of this time was spent as an Associate Director in the Honors Program and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research. Most recently, I served as a faculty member in the Neag School of Education. This past August, I began a new position as the Assistant Vice Provost for Enrichment Programs and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Connecticut. For many of you, this serves as a formal introduction. For others, it is an opportunity to reconnect. I am truly excited to write to you today and share news about UConn’s Honors Program, our students, and our alumni. Continue reading
By Cheryl Cranick, Honors Program
In 2006, Caitlin Donohue ’08 visited UConn’s Study Abroad fair on campus. It was there that she learned about the UConn Honors Congressional Internship Program in Washington, D.C. The partnership between the Honors Program and the Department of Political Science annually recruits six or seven students from across the university to compete for full-time intern posts with members of Congress from Connecticut. Continue reading
By Cheryl Cranick, Honors Program
It’s fall right now in Korea; “crisp and cool at night, while still pleasantly warm during the day,” said Emily Szkudlarek ’12. The CLAS Honors psychology graduate arrived in the country during the humid season in August this year and recuperated from the 15-hour flight during a weeklong orientation. Then she began her role as a guest English teacher in the city of Gyeongju. Continue reading
By Cheryl Cranick, Honors Program
Day one at Buckley Hall is when Ajay Madkekar ’06 and Diana Flynn ’06 met as friends. But it wasn’t until senior year, just a few weeks before graduation, that they became a couple. “I like to say we met the first day and starting dating the last,” said Flynn. To be specific, it was spring break in March when Ajay and Diana shared a cruise with eight UConn classmates, many of them from Honors. “The last night on the cruise, I remember playing blackjack with the guys while Diana watched us slowly hand our money to Carnival Cruise Lines,” quipped Madkekar. “Something about losing money and not having a care in the world must have sparked Diana’s interest.” This July they plan to marry. Continue reading
Cecelia Bucki ’73 was recently appointed editor for the journal “Connecticut History.” She is Professor of History at Fairfield University where she recently ended her three-year term as department chairperson. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991 and is the author of “Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-1936” (University of Illinois Press, 2001). Ruth Welti ’76 was recently honored with the title of University Distinguished Professor of Biology at Kansas State University. She is an enthusiastic student of the chemistry and biochemistry of lipids. Bruce Barth ’78 was recently named chair of the Tax-Exempt Organizations and Benefits Group at his firm, listed in The Best Lawyers in America® as Hartford Lawyer of the Year in the area of Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law for 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC), and listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Employee Benefits Law since 1995. Continue reading
Each year, the University of Connecticut is permitted to nominate up to four outstanding undergraduates who are headed for research careers in science, math, or engineering to compete for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. The faculty nominating committee read and considered a record number of outstanding submissions this year and just announced the 2013 Goldwater nominees. This year, they are all Honors students. The 2013 UConn Goldwater nominees are: Continue reading
By Olivia Balsinger
Students looking for an organization that can assist the worldwide community through action with other peers have a new club tailored for them: “UConn Empower,” a new club for students.
As stated on their website, UConn Empower’s mission is a student group with the mission to “help to bring about long-term change by empowering the underprivileged through education and health care.” Continue reading