The UConn Environment Corps (“E-Corps”) is an undergraduate STEM program centered on a model that combines classroom instruction, service learning, and Extension outreach. There are currently three E-Corps classes, each addressing the local impacts of, and responses to, a pressing environmental problem: climate resilience, brownfields redevelopment, and stormwater management. Students enroll in a classroom semester, […]

UConn’s Writing Center community outreach work was initiated, appropriately enough, by an undergraduate tutor who wanted to bring one-on-one tutoring in academic and creative writing to her own former high school, Hartford Public.   To learn more about that experience, please see this article in Reflections: https://reflectionsjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Re-assessing-Sustainability.pdf.pdf  Starting in 2007, the UConn Writing Center shifted their emphasis […]

Adapt CT is an outreach partnership of Connecticut Sea Grant & The Center for Land Use Education & Research (CLEAR). The website includes information on the Climate Adaptation Academy (CAA), the UConn Climate Corps, Coastal Habitats, and Tools/Resources. The CAA offers workshops on adaptation issues relevant to Connecticut’s communities. Past workshop PowerPoints/videos are available on […]

Support a graduate student to prepare an annotated bibliography on impacts of plastic debris on Long Island Sound animals. The research assistant will review relevant research based on observed or potential impacts from plastic pollution to a variety of phyla and species that could be expected to inhabit Long Island Sound at least temporarily or […]

The goal of this project is to target psychologically distressed divorced parents, to improve parental self-regulation via mindfulness as a promising approach to optimizing an existing evidence-based parenting intervention for divorced families.   Aim 1: Elucidate the perspectives of end users and stakeholders. I will apply user-centered design and conduct formative research, including individual interviews […]

UConn’s Office of Early College Programs (OECP) provides students with meaningful academic engagement to enrich their experience in high school and support their transition into college. OECP offers educational opportunities at high school (Early College Experience), in university classrooms (Dual Enrollment), and through on-campus residential summer programs (Pre-College Summer and First Summer).  UConn Pre-College Summer […]

In June 2021, Governor Lamont appointed members to the newly formed Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council. Created by state law under Connecticut Statute § 51-279f, the council is responsible for encouraging and coordinating programs that increase community awareness and reporting of hate crimes to combat such crimes. It also can make recommendations for legislation concerning […]

The Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic (“IP Law Clinic” or “Clinic”) at UConn School of Law provides law students with the unique opportunity to counsel Connecticut’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups on a wide range of intellectual property law issues. Under the supervision of intellectual property law attorneys, students enrolled in the IP Law Clinic […]

This partnership with UConn Hillel and Hillel International worked to ensure a positive campus climate where Jewish students feel comfortable expressing their identity and values and where they are free from antisemitism, harassment, and marginalization.  During the 2021-2022 academic year, UConn was one of 19 participating institutions who sent representatives. These representatives were educated on […]

ODI continued building its capacity to serve the Jewish community and address antisemitism by participating in the Academic Engagement Network’s Signature Seminar Series, which brings together university and college administrators to discuss and develop strategies for responding to bias incidents.  This Signature Seminar Series brought together university and college administrators, including student affairs staff, representatives […]