Upcoming Events

First day of final exams

Please join the Asian & Asian-American Studies Institute for a conversation with their Artist in Residence Ali Asgar Tara on Rethinking Freedom.

A critical conversation to understand how we can reimagine freedom by examining the intersections between gender and sexual marginality from the global south context. The conversation will also involve discussing how various systems of oppression are connected to queer subjectivity by centering and explaining this through my art practice and community organizing.

If you're in the area, check out this semester's AAASI Artist-in-Residence Artist Talk with Ali Asgar Tara. This event will feature a screening of their video/performance work.

ALI ASGAR TARA
Rethinking Freedom - A critical conversation to understand how we can reimagine freedom by examining the intersections between gender and sexual marginality from the global south context. The conversation will also involve discussing how various systems of oppression are connected to queer subjectivity by centering and explaining this through my art practice and community organizing.

Ali Asgar Tara (they/them/she/her) is a Bangladeshi transgender artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Tara combines video, text, drawing, and community performance to create political, site responsive, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Twitter @aliasgarart

Tara’s scholarship and art are reflective of their past & present experiences in a very different social, cultural, political, and educational environment. Tara’s current research-based art practice looks at the narratives of queer liberation in the context of the global north and juxtaposes it with their experience and understanding of queerness from the global south and argues how the neoliberal global market economy depoliticizes queerness as an Identity.

Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut


Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics


Weakly-bound complexes are unique systems to study XUV-mediated decay processes since energy can either be internally converted or exchanged with a neighboring atom or molecule. For larger nanoscale systems, the local environment also plays a critical role in the various interatomic processes. Here, I will discuss how the formation and dynamics of "bubbles" around excited atoms in helium nanodroplets can dramatically enhance interatomic decay. Furthermore, I will discuss how these processes can also be applied to other fluids such as water.

Antibody-Based Proximity Labeling Identifies Local Neuron Proteomes in the Mouse Neocortex

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Modulating immune response and initiating axon remyelination in a mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis."

Presenter: Seema Tiwari-Woodruff, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Sciences; Director of Biomed Graduate Program
University of California School of Medicine, Riverside, CA

Host: Rashmi Bansal, PhD

Title: System change through place-based intervention: An evaluation of community interventions through an ecological perspective (Area: Social Psychology)

Last day of final exams

The Archaeological Society of Connecticut Spring Meeting. Check here for a full list of speakers: https://anthropology.uconn.edu/2022/04/19/archaeological-society-of-connecticut-meeting/

Dr. Aaron Laforge, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut


Ultrafast interatomic decay processes induced by quantum fluid dynamics


Weakly-bound complexes are unique systems to study XUV-mediated decay processes since energy can either be internally converted or exchanged with a neighboring atom or molecule. For larger nanoscale systems, the local environment also plays a critical role in the various interatomic processes. Here, I will discuss how the formation and dynamics of "bubbles" around excited atoms in helium nanodroplets can dramatically enhance interatomic decay. Furthermore, I will discuss how these processes can also be applied to other fluids such as water.

Are you interested in entrepreneurship and innovation policy?


The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation co-organizes the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Virtual Research Seminar Series!


Join the mailing list for seminar announcements here: https://mailchi.mp/3d0399d764f5/eip-virtual-research-seminar


Governments around the world enact policies that affect technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. An increasing number of scholars are investigating these topics, which has implications on policy design and program implementation. Yet, scholars lack a forum for presenting their work. This virtual seminar series will fill this gap—bringing together the insights from academia and policy application—thereby increasing our understanding of policy issues and build a forum for expressing these ideas and a supportive community to nourish them.


The next seminar will be on May 11: from 11:00 am to 11:55 am ET. Donna Ginther will present, "The rise of teamwork and career prospects in academic science" (with Mabel Andalon, Catherine de Fontenay, and Quanghui Lim).

Please register for the event here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0of--hpzgsGNOToMdrgdM38y_7-ImmVe1T

Emily R. Liman, PhD,
Professor of Neurobiology,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA

Talk Title:
“Sour solved? The proton channel OTOP1 from function to structure”

Host: Professor Karen Menuz

Emily R. Liman, PhD,
Neurobiology and Molecular and Computational Biology,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA

Talk Title:
“Sour solved? The proton channel OTOP1 from function to structure”

Host: Dr. Karen Menuz

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Presenilin promotes neurotransmitter release through ryanodine receptors in C. elegans."

Presenter: Longgang Niu, PhD
Instructor, Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT

Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32958651/

All are invited to attend:

Sexual and Affectionate Behavior in Adult Romantic Relationships


Meeting link:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=mbf79aa3283e33911ce6ce42b6e25edf4

Meeting number:
2621 641 4808

Password:
Please obtain your meeting password from your host.

Join by video system
Dial: 26216414808@uconn-cmr.webex.com

You can also dial: 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.

Join by phone
+1-415-655-0002 US Toll

Access code: 2621 641 4808

Advising Team:
Major Advisor - Eva Lefkowitz, Ph.D; Associate Advisor - Ryan Watson, Ph.D; Associate Advisor - Shannon Weaver, Ph.D

We will be holding a scaled back version of the event, in person for the first time since 2019!
https://cwp.uconn.edu/ct-student-writers-magazine/awards-night/

For its third installment of the 2022 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host "Tito Matos and Puerto Rican Culture" with panelists Pedro Adorno, Emmanuel Santana, Mareia Quintero, Luis Beltran on Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. ET. This forum will take place on Zoom (registration required) and Facebook Live and will be available afterwards on the Ballard Institute’s Facebook page and YouTube Channel.

The late Tito Matos, who passed away in January, reinvented the Afro-Puerto Rican singing tradition of plena, and was celebrated in San Juan by a procession that featured music, stilt-dancing, and giant cabesudo portrait masks. This forum will feature Pedro Adorno of the puppet company Agua, Sol y Sereno; Mareia Quintero, a professor cultural studies at the University of Puerto Rico; Emmanuel Santana, a pupil and friend of Tito Matos; and Luis Beltran-Alvarez, a University of Connecticut PhD. student in Political Science. This event is co-sponsored by the El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies.

For more information about this forum and the speakers, email bimp@uconn.edu.

Instructor: Kenya Rutland, Principal, KJR Consulting. At any given moment our brains are receiving 11 million pieces of information. Yet, we can only consciously process about 40 of those pieces. To make sense of the rest, we rely on our subconscious to filter information. Our brain does this using generalizations, beliefs, and stereotypes. This approach to processing information and making decisions can lead to biases we may not be even aware of. These unconscious biases are normal and in many cases they are useful. However, they can cause people to overlook great ideas and ignore an individual’s potential. They can also result in microaggressions. Microaggressions are everyday slights, indignities, put-downs, and insults that demean or offend others. They are often fueled by our unconscious bias, which means we may not even be aware of them and how they lead to exclusionary behavior. Contact Maura Maloney to register.

UConn Women in Science Meeting

A time for women in science to chat & destress

Topic: Reproductive Rights, Bodily Autonomy, Roe Vs. Wade, and other things

Presenting: Scott Gallager, Coastal Ocean Vision

Title: Threats to our waterways and how we should be quantifying them: microplastics, harmful algal blooms, Raman spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging from UAVs and space
or
what I have been doing since retiring from WHOI

Host: Zofia Baumann

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1223/

Orientation for the new participants in the CWP Summer Institute.

Bruce A. Edgar, PhD
Professor,
Oncological Sciences,
University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT

Talk Title:
“Stem cell regulation and regenerative growth in the Drosophila intestine”

Host: Dr. Jianzhong yu

One of the most powerful tools for an entrepreneur is being connected with the right resources at the time they are needed most. Timely Topics is a series hosted by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation that features panels of speakers, workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs, and fireside chats with successful business leaders. These sessions provide ongoing opportunities for students, faculty, and alumni entrepreneurs to learn, grow, and connect.

Have you ever been told to ‘dream BIG’? Or maybe ‘think BIGGER’? In CCEI’s next Timely Topics, Rache Brand, an investor and innovation strategist, will be discussing how to commercialize your BIG ideas and how to push yourself to think BIGGER. Join us on April 14th at 11am!

Register here: https://ccei.uconn.edu/timely-topics/

The Corollary Discharge Hypothesis of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia – A combined DTI and EEG Study,
Clinical Psychology

The summer application development program offers two tracks:
Track one: for students developing NSF GRFP applications
Track two: for students developing Fulbright graduate research applications
The program runs from June 5-10th and applications for both tracks are due on May 25th.
Track I
The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships (ONSF) is conducting a workshop series that will present NSF GRFP information and provide structured practice to develop a competitive GRFP application. In this workshop, graduate students (and a select number of undergraduate students) from NSF eligible fields will participate in a 5-part series that will include an overview of the GRFP and application process, first-hand advice from GRFP recent awardees and interactive sessions to review and revise their application documents. The workshop will also provide a timeline and guidance for requesting recommendation letters. In addition to preparing a more competitive GRFP application, workshop participants will gain experience drafting a research outline and conveying their research to broad audiences. Please note that participation is limited to 20 students. Acceptance is based on minimum criteria outlined in the application and the quality of the submitted application. If there are any questions, please contact Rowena Grainger, Enrichment Program Assistant Director for Research and Fellowships, at rowena.grainger@uconn.edu.
Apply here: https://uconn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8HXpL8338eIfQOO
Track II
The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships (ONSF) is conducting a workshop series that will review the Fulbright U.S. Student program and provide structured practice to develop a Fulbright Research application.  In this workshop, graduate students will participate in a 5-part series that will include an overview of the Fulbright program and application process, first-hand advice from Fulbright alumni, and interactive sessions to write, review and revise their application documents. The workshop will also provide a timeline and guidance for requesting recommendation letters. There is a financial incentive provided to each student who is accepted to the program. The details of this award will be outlined when an offer to participate is extended to the student. Please note that participation is limited to 12 students. Acceptance is based on minimum criteria outlined in the application and the quality of the submitted application. If there are any questions, please contact LuAnn Saunders-Kanabay, Assistant Director & Fulbright Program Advisor, at luann.saunders-kanabay@uconn.edu
Apply here: https://uconn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cxgYjGNsuEAzhY

Instructor: Alyssa Goduti, President & CEO, Adelbrook. The success of any nonprofit or government organization is contingent on its mission, vision, governance, ability to run quality programs and most importantly on its ability to raise funds. Organizations with the knowledge, skills and expertise to seek out and successfully win grants are more likely to thrive in this increasingly competitive funding environment. This session will help you better understand how to identify grant opportunities and develop winning proposals. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice grant-writing skills based on practical examples from their organizations or experiences. Contact Maura Maloney to register.