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UConn Welcomes Toulouse Delegates for Partnership Discussions

January 19, 2024 It was a pleasure to welcome University of Toulouse’s Stange-Fayos Christina, Delegate Vice President for European and International Relations, and Pascal Maussion, INP Vice President for the International Affairs, to UConn’s campus. During this eventful visit, they met with the Office of Global Affairs; UConn’s Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; the […]

Alexander von Humboldt in the Twenty-First Century

October 04, 2021 | Kerry Carnahan, Global Partnerships Graduate Assistant On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, UConn Global Affairs and the German Consulate General Boston co-presented the lunchtime discussion “Confronting History: The Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt’s Encounter with the Americas in the Twenty First Century.” Discussants were German historian of knowledge Dr. Sandra Rebok, author […]

Improving Water and Food Security in Ethiopia

August 20, 2021 | United Nations Academic Impact Blog | Fahad Khadim, Graduate Research Assistant in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Laurel Pehmoeller, Multimedia Specialist, Global Partnerships & Outreach “The question of how science, research, and study address challenges, pinpoint innovative solutions and reach people in need, is an issue of concern for […]

Global Citizenship in the 21st Century

July 12, 2021 | Laurel Pehmoeller, Multimedia Specialist, Office of Global Affairs, University of Connecticut UConn Extends a Virtual Welcome to ECNU Students Last week, UConn Global kicked off a new virtual program, in partnership with East China Normal University (ECNU), called “Critical Thinking, Academic Research and Global Citizenship in the 21st Century”. East China […]

Illegal Gold Rush Igniting Attacks on Amazon Indigenous People

July 6, 2021 | National Geographic | Scott Wallace, Professor of Journalism, University of Connecticut “As tensions between illegal gold miners and Indigenous communities erupt into open violence in the Brazilian Amazon, legislators allied with right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro are aggressively pursuing measures aimed at curtailing protections of the territories and rights of Indigenous people. […]