The Sociology Department is excited to run the Undergraduate Research Grant competition again in Academic Year 2025! We encourage students to apply for the chance to win one of five $300 awards.
Undergraduate Highlights
Spring Research Symposium
This Symposium was held on March 29th, 2024 to highlight some of the brilliant research projects that Undergraduate and Graduate students have been working on throughout the year.
Winners of the 2024 Sociology Department Awards
Please join us in congratulating the 2024 winners of the Sociology Department Awards!
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.
Winners of the 2023 Sociology Department Awards
Please join us in congratulating the 2023 winners of the Sociology Department Awards!
Undergraduate Research Awards 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 Undergraduate Research Awards recipients Mohammed Musa Hussain and Amina Shakeel!
Phoebe Godfrey: Environmental & Social Sustainability Small Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Phoebe Godfrey and Juan Pablo Yepes Tobón, who were awarded a grant for $6,203.00 from the 2022 Environmental and Social Sustainability Small Grants (ESSSG) Program to fund their proposal of Non-Violence Mindfulness Training and a Mother Earth Day Festival. The Office of Sustainability and the Institute of the Environment began a funding […]
Phoebe Godfrey: Undergraduate Mindfulness and Activism Workshop
Three students had the opportunity to facilitate a Mindfulness and Activism Workshop for Professor in Residence, Phoebe Godfrey’s Social Theory class. Here is what her students had to say about the workshop: “This workshop, in our opinion, was a complete success! Being able to teach the true importance of mindfulness and activism was a great […]
Congratulations: Sociology Undergraduate Research Grant Winners
Congratulations to Yoanetsi Torres and Dina Alnabulsi, winners of the Sociology Undergraduate Research Grant! They will receive funding to support their research in conjunction with their faculty mentors (Ryan Talbert and Bhoomi Thakore) in the Spring 2023 semester.
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.