Christine Buckley


Author Archive

Charles R. Venator-Santiago speaks at a podium.

Meet New Director of El Instituto, Charles “Rob” Venator Santiago

The new leader works with government leaders in Hartford to bring data on Latinos and Puerto Ricans in the United States to the forefront for use in policymaking.

Jessica Cooperman

Meet New Director of Judaic Studies, Jessica Cooperman

The new Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life brings her broad expertise in modern Jewish history to UConn.

A driver recharges her electric vehicle.

Green Subsidies May Have Hidden Costs, Experts Warn

Some subsidies that appear to encourage sustainability are not so simple

Dimitris Xygalatas teaching a class.

Meet Dimitris Xygalatas, New Director of the Cognitive Science Program

The new program director talks about the humanities and science sides of the field, about how cognitive science spawned AI, and how he studies UConn basketball games as an anthropologist.

Elizabeth Jockusch

Meet New Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Elizabeth Jockusch

The evolutionary biologist discusses how her field has adapted—and become more crucial--to a changing natural world

Angela Eikenberry

Meet New Director of the School of Public Policy, Angela Eikenberry

The nonprofit administration researcher shares her love for Hartford, her admiration for her program's diversity, and her realization that School of Public Policy alumni are “everywhere."

Evelyn Simien teaching a course.

Meet New Director of Africana Studies, Evelyn Simien

The professor of political science talks about the growth of UConn’s Africana Studies Institute, its recent focus on intersectional research, and her own stake in this year’s historic presidential campaign.

Headshot of Jason Chang

Meet Jason Chang, First Head of New Social and Critical Inquiry Department

The professor of history and Asian American studies talks about the formation of his new department from “problem-based, solution-based academic units within the humanities, coming from intellectual traditions rooted in human struggle.”

Dean Ofer Harel hands out diplomas at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony one in Gampel Pavilion.

Ofer Harel Named Dean of UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 

Harel will lead the University’s largest college, serving 10,000 undergraduates,1,700 graduate students, and 950 faculty and staff over all five UConn campuses

Mountains in the distance, wetlands in the foreground.

Geoscientist Among First Projects Approved by National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot 

Lijing Wang, who joins UConn in August, will develop AI models for mountain water flow that aid in climate change predictions