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!
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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.
Sociology Major Featured in UConn Today
In their September 29, 2022 article, “Native American and Indigenous Community Takes Shape At UConn,” UConn Today features the work of Sociology major Samantha Gove.
Information Sessions for Sociology 4+1 MA Program
Attention Sophomores and Juniors! Look at occupations that will be open to you after completing an MA in Sociology. The 4+1 program in Sociology is open to all UConn undergraduate majors and will enable you to complete both your BA and a Masters in Sociology in 5 years.
Alumna Mangala Subramaniam Publishes Co-Edited Collection
Check out alumna Mangala Subramaniam’s (2001) forthcoming book, Dismantling Institutional Whiteness, co-edited with M. Cristina Alcalde. It will publish on October 15, 2022 with Purdue University Press.
Phoebe Godfrey: A Kitchen for the Community
Check out this video featuring Sociology Professor Phoebe Godfrey and her work with the Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen, or CLiCK Willimantic. CLiCK is a place where anyone from the community can learn vital skills, from growing food to working in the food industry, and where incubating businesses can use the facilities to get their businesses off the ground with fewer start-up funds.
Alumnus Launches Election Candidate Search Engine
Alumnus Geno Herring has made it his mission to ensure all Americans, regardless of skin color, race, economic status or religion, can obtain free voter education. After 25 years in public administration, he has now launched Best Candidate, the world’s first voter education tool box, and candidate search engine.
Alumna Mangala Subramaniam Appointed VCU Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Please join us in congratulating alumna Mangala Subramaniam (2001), who will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs in the Virginia Commonwealth University Office of the Provost, effective Oct. 2.