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When Salome Raheim arrived as the new dean of the School of Social Work in 2008, she made fundraising an immediate priority.
“Achieving excellence in social work education requires resources in addition to state funding,” says Raheim. “Private gifts help us attract and support talented students and offer innovative programs.”
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American homeowners use 10 times more chemical pesticides per acre than farmers, according to the American Academy of Science. Yes, that's you, out there every week, slave to
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In our backyard, we have the largest white oak tree in Connecticut! This tree most likely predates the American Revolution; Richardson estimates it is 300 years old.
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“What we have here is so unique…We’re a global campus,” says Mike
Baczewski, new president of the Association of Student Governments at the UConn Greater Hartford Campus. He is also an elected official in his home town of Berlin, where...
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Mathematics and poetry are two of Sarah Glaz’s passions. They are melded together in her new book, Strange Attractors, Poems of Love and Mathematics. The book, published by A K Peters Ltd., is an anthology of about 150 poems that are strongly connected to mathematics in form, content, or imagery, says Glaz...
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As state lawmakers discuss a proposal to keep Connecticut’s 18 domestic violence shelters staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, researchers at the School of Social Work’s Institute for Violence Prevention and Reduction have stepped in to supply key information to the debate...
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Despite its small size and fragile economy, Jordan hosts about half a million forced migrants and refugees who have fled Iraq since the United States-led war began in 2003, according to the United Nations. Researchers Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding, both assistant professors in the School of Social Work, say the...
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Walter Woodward went from writing country music in Nashville to writing advertising jingles in Cleveland. Then came The Great Kitchen Table Discussion of 1988 in which...
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The freshmen at UConn’s Greater Hartford campus come from Kathmandu and New Orleans. They graduated from 82 high schools in Connecticut and from home school settings in Texas and New York...
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Lawrence Goodheart is packing his bags for Turkey, where he will serve as a Fulbright Scholar from September until May 2010. Goodheart, a professor at the Greater Hartford Campus of the University of Connecticut, is one of many Hartford faculty ...
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“I work with the Shaman, the medicine man,” says Felix Coe, who scours the rain forests of Central America, looking for pharmaceuticals in tropical plants. His expedition is far from an eco-tour, but that doesn’t stop students from joining Coe in his search for plants containing alkaloids such as caffeine, codeine...
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Stephen Ross, professor of economics, received the first College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Research Award at the recent commencement exercises. Ross won the newly-established award in Social Sciences and receives, with the honor, $1000 to continue his research. Three additional CLAS research ...
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Being Connecticut’s State Historian is no snooze job. “People call me up all the time, and they expect me to know the answer to every question,” about Connecticut history, says Walter Woodward. He is also expected to teach history to undergraduate, honors and graduate students at the...
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English Professor Clare Eby has been selected for one of five highly-competitive University of Connecticut Faculty Fellowships for the upcoming 2009-2010 academic year. The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute granted the award to Eby to complete work on a non-fiction book she...
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