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2016 Rowe Scholar: Lianna Morales

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Lianna Morales (Junior)
Lianna Morales (Junior)

Lianna Morales is an Allied Health Science major from Danbury, CT where she graduated from Danbury High School. She earned her Certified Nursing Assistant license as a high school student and spent two years working at a nursing home. She also interned at Danbury Hospital, shadowing nurses and doctors on the labor and delivery unit. These experiences taught her the importance of a good bedside manner and increased her interest in becoming a pediatrician. Lianna has traveled to nine different countries and her life’s goal is to add to that list and travel the world exploring new places.

2016 Rowe Scholar: Neha Rana

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Neha Rana (Junior)
Neha Rana (Junior)

Neha Rana’s parents were born in India but she was born and raised in Danbury, CT where she graduated from Danbury High School, though she speaks Gujarati, an Indian dialect. Neha is an Allied Health Sciences major and a Biological Sciences minor who hopes to pursue a career as a physician’s assistant with a concentration in cardiac. In pursuit of this goal she has spent the past two years working as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home in Ridgefield, CT. There she assists residents in the rehab, long term care, and dementia units, working to help those admitted in critical states return home in a stable and healthy condition. She also helps long term residents with the activities of daily living.

2016 Rowe Scholar: Shanique Stewart

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Shanique Stewart (Junior)
Shanique Stewart (Junior)

Born in Jamaica, Shanique Stewart moved to the United States when she was two and grew up in Waterbury, CT where she graduated from Waterbury Arts Magnet High School. Though she is now a Nutritional Science major and a Sports Nutrition minor, Shanique started college thinking she would go into fashion as a designer. She says that now she couldn’t imagine herself not going into the medical field. Shanique has a passion for fitness and health and hopes to become a physical therapist. She currently works as a dietary aide in a nursing home, which helps her to experience dietary needs and restrictions for different conditions. Shanique spent this summer in Cape Town, South Africa interning at Maitland Cottage, a children’s orthopedic hospital. She hopes to continue her world travels.

2016 Rowe Scholar: Taina Quiles

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Taina Quiles (Freshman)
Taina Quiles (Freshman)

Taina Quiles is from Willimantic, CT where she attended Windham High School and played on the field hockey team. She hopes to join club field hockey at UConn, where she will major in Biological Sciences with a pre-med focus. Last summer Taina had the chance to participate in the Project SEED program at UConn, working with a graduate student to create gold nanoparticle slides that can potentially be used as a substrate for a biosensor to detect antigens and proteins. She hopes to study abroad before she graduates.

2016 Rowe Scholar: Tanya Miller

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Tanya Miller (Freshman)
Tanya Miller (Freshman)

Tanya Miller is from Southbury, CT, where she graduated from Pomperaug High School, though both of her parents are originally from the Czech Republic. Tanya will be majoring in Allied Health Sciences with the ultimate goal of working in pediatrics. As a member of HCOP, Tanya has had the opportunity to take part in the Junior and Senior Doctors Academies, the High School Mini Medical/Dental School Program, and the High School Student Research Apprentice Program, the latter affording her the chance to work on a biological software program called V-Cell at the Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling. Tanya enjoys running and hopes to eventually take part in a half-marathon.

2016 Rowe Scholar: John Ogando

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John Ogando (Freshman)
John Ogando (Freshman)

Both of John Ogando’s parents are from the Dominican Republic, but John was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Waterbury, CT, where he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School. Though John has played baseball for ten years, he still found the time to log over 500 hours of service at the emergency department of his local hospital. He will be an Allied Health Sciences major at UConn.

2016 Rowe Scholar: Isabella Rendon

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Isabella Rendon (Freshman)
Isabella Rendon (Freshman)

Isabella Rendon hails from Ridgefield, CT where she graduated from Ridgefield High School after playing varsity tennis for three years. She was co-captain of the team her senior year and played number one doubles with the other captain. As one of the top 16 doubles teams they made the all-state team in the Connecticut state tennis tournament. Isabella hopes to continue to play club tennis at UConn, where she’ll be a Nursing major. Besides playing tennis in high school Isabella also volunteered as an ambassador for a local hospital, which allowed her to develop her communication skills and learn about the type of environment in which she hopes to one day work.

2016 Rowe Scholar: Alexa Friedman

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Alexa Friedman (Junior)
Alexa Friedman (Junior)

Alexa Friedman grew up in Westchester, NY, graduated from Walter Panas High School, and now lives in Niantic, CT. Alexa originally became interested in health and medicine when her grandmother, who was diagnosed with late stage brain cancer, became the sole survivor of a group of 50 who were given an experimental treatment. Alexa is now in the Individualized Major program with a major called Human Health Sciences and minors in Biological Sciences and Human Rights. She is interested in the intersection of human rights and access to healthcare and spent this summer living in Lima, Peru and interning for a non-profit called MEDLIFE, which works to bring medicine and education to low income families everywhere. Alexa created curriculum and educational materials, supervised medical clinics, translated medical Spanish, and worked on project sites. This experience developed Alexa’s passion for travel and she hopes to visit all of South America before starting a full time job.

SPAN 1007-001: Major Works of Hispanic Literature in Translation

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Instructor: Osvaldo Pardo

This course will introduce students to Latin American modern literature by exploring a wide variety of works by writers who expanded and renewed the possibilities of narrative forms and genres such as Jorge Luis Borges, Felisberto Hernández, Clarice Lispector, Álvaro Mutis, and Mario Bellatín. Some of the topics to be discussed include the modernization and internationalization of Latin American literature; critiques to realism; the place of literature in a global age, among others.

The course will be conducted as a seminar, which means that active participation in class discussions is essential. Honors students are expected to meet with instructor regularly to discuss the progress of the final research paper and familiarize themselves with basic research tools in the field of the humanities (bibliographies; databases; digital resources; etc).

A knowledge of Spanish is not required.

(CA 1, CA 4-Int)

UNIV 1995-001: Special Topics: Next Generation STEM Skills

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One credit, Honors.
Instructors: Jaclyn Chancey and Kaitlin Heenehan

Science is a human endeavor, conducted by people working in communities and being influenced by—and in turn influencing—society as a whole. This makes STEM practice complex and “messy.” Future professionals in STEM fields will need to think critically about problems that require interdisciplinary cooperation, and they must be able to communicate effectively with various audiences inside and outside of STEM.

Come explore this messiness across STEM disciplines in a small seminar format!

  • Participate in weekly presentations from faculty and other professionals
  • Interview two STEM professionals whose careers interest you
  • Connect class topics to current events
  • Personalize your learning and plan for future career development

This year’s presenters will include John Bau (Center for Career Development & Engineering); Dr. Lucy Gilson (Management); Dr. Amy Gorin (Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy & Psychological Sciences); Dr. Rowena Grainger (Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships); Dr. Heather Heenehan (NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center); Dean Kazem Kazerounian (Engineering); Dr. Thomas Long (Nursing); Dr. Caroline McGuire (Office of Undergraduate Research); Dr. John Redden (Physiology & Neurobiology); Dr. Margaret Rubega (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology); Dr. Leslie Shor (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering); and Dr. Stephen Stifano (Communication).

Course structure: This class will meet for two hours each Friday. The first hour (2:30 – 3:20) will be devoted to the speaker series and will be open and advertised to all interested students. The second hour (3:35 – 4:25) will consist of additional discussions and small group activities limited to those enrolled in the course.

A permission number is required. Please email kaitlin.heenehan@uconn.edu and include your name and 7-digit Student Admin number.