Please join us in congratulating Drs. Ingrid Semaan and Ryan Talbert, winners of 2024 awards in recognition of excellence in mentorship and teaching.
Author: Malley, Mary
Mangala Subramaniam, ’01 (Ph.D.): VCU Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Mangala Subramaniam, ’01 (Ph.D. ), has been named Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs in the Virginia Commonwealth University Office of the Provost.
Gino Herring, ’89 (BA): Election Candidate Search Engine
Gino Herring (BA 1989) has launched the world’s first voter education tool box and candidate search engine, Best Candidate.
Angie Beeman, ’10 (Ph.D.): “Liberal White Supremacy”
In her recent publication titled Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, Angie Beeman, ’01 (Ph.D.), argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism.
Alumna Mangala Subramaniam, ’01 (Ph.D.): Co-Edited Collection
Dismantling Institutional Whiteness gathers a range of first-person narratives from women of color and examines the challenges they face not only at a systemic level, but also at a deeply personal level. Their experiences combined with research and statistics paint a sobering portrait of higher education’s problems when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Read Volume 3 of “The Mirror”
This third edition of The Mirror was edited by editors-in-chief Amanda Rodrigues and Nicholas Xenophontos, along with the rest of the editorial team.
Jane Pryma: Honors Faculty Member of the Year Award
Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Jane Pryma, who has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 – 2023 Honors Faculty Member of the Year Award!
Feb. 8, 2023: Pipeline to Publishing
In the first installment of the Pipeline to Publishing Workshop participants will discuss Rianka Roy’s circulated paper, “The Membership Game: Limited Participation in Indian Tech Unions and Some Responses.”
Laura Bunyan: Husky Harvest in “UConn Today”
Check out UConn Today’s recent article “Husky Harvest Aims to Help Regional Campuses with Food Insecurity” featuring Assistant Professor in Residence, Laura Bunyan’s, work with Katharine Vartuli ’23 (CLAS) to provide food to those in need. The pop-up pantry began as a hands-on class project that came about at the suggestion of colleagues and after talking with organizers of a pantry at Norwalk Community College.
Ryan Talbert: CLAS Research in Academic Themes Award
Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Ryan Talbert, whose proposal titled “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Roles, and Cardiovascular Health among Black Men and Women” has been awarded funding through the CLAS Research in Academic Themes initiative.