December 23, 2013 | Two professors at the Defense Academy had been evaluating training programs online and they were certain that it would be worth traveling 5,200 miles from Kaduna, Nigeria to Haddam, Conn. to become better acquainted with GIS technology.
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Bird Flu Research Earns Professor Accolades in China
December 17, 2013 | A UConn researcher was keenly interested in the news of an influenza virus that normally only affects birds jumped to human hosts in China earlier this year.
Groomed to Guide World Diplomacy
December 10, 2013 | To advance his plan to be a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department, D’Oleo-Lundgren studied in an intensive Arabic language program funded by an endowment that UConn President Emeritus Philip Austin established.
Chief of Emergency Medicine Aiding Typhoon Victims
November 18, 2013 | Dr. Robert Fuller, medical director of the UConn Health Center Emergency Department, is in the Philippines, providing emergency medical care to survivors of the typhoon.
Corporate Social Responsibility Group to Receive Dodd Human Rights Prize
November 18, 2013 | An international group that monitors the positive and negative impacts of thousands of businesses on human rights around the globe, will be awarded the sixth biennial Thomas J. Dodd Prize.
The International Language of Science
October 28, 2013 | Perhaps most importantly, I returned to Connecticut with a sense of what I had always known but had never experienced quite like this: science is an international language, spoken around the world by people with a thirst for new knowledge.
Human Rights Conference Draws High School Students
October 22, 2013 | Violence Against Women is the topic of a human rights conference on campus that will include special workshops for high school students.
A Journey through Indian Art
October 18, 2013 | For Kathryn Myers, curating the exhibition “Convergence: Contemporary Art from India and the Diaspora” that opens on Oct. 22 at the William Benton Museum of Art was considerably less difficult than the first time she organized an exhibition of art from India nearly a decade ago.
UConn Wins U.S. Dept. of State Grant for Sports Exchange Program with South Africa
October 2, 2013 | For the second year in a row, the University of Connecticut has been awarded $225,000 for an International Sports Programming Initiative exchange grant by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Sports United Division.
Studying the Effects of War Propaganda on Combatants in Serbia
September 20, 2013 | “Everywhere I went the effects of the war were apparent,” says Kiper, now a doctoral student in anthropology at UConn, who is focusing his dissertation on the effects of war propaganda on combatants of campaigns involving human rights violations, particularly in Serbia.