College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Avery Point coast

UConn Doctoral Student Awarded NOAA-Sea Grant Fellowship for Sea Scallop Research

Halle Berger is the first UConn student to receive the prestigious fellowship

Jonathan Chambers ’28, (CLAS) planting the Flex Farm at UConn Stamford

Husky Harvest Stamford Bolsters Food Pantry Offerings with New Partnerships, New Initiatives

'We’re trying to tie together everything we’re doing to fight food insecurity at UConn Stamford. All our initiatives need to support one another'

Faith Sportbert '23 (CLAS) works the shirt booth at the Innovation Expo

Students Invited to Go for Gold at the 2024 Experience Innovation Expo

'Everyone can be an innovator. The only prerequisite is having an alternative, creative view or idea'

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.

Katherine Bates

Meet the Undergraduate Leader: Katherine Bates ‘25 (CLAS)

Panhellenic Council president Bates also organizes HackUConn, a yearly collaborative problem-solving competition open to all majors

Former members of Congress Fred Upton and Loretta Sanchez participate in a discussion with NBC CT anchor and reporter Amber Diaz.

At Visit to Dodd Center, Former Members of Congress Discuss Bridging Divides – and Issue a Call to Action

'Today's conversation is important, because it is a reminder of what our discourse can be'

Parthenon

Students Experience ‘Authentic’ Greece During New Study Abroad Program

The summer field school was designed by anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas to connect ancient Greece and modern Greek culture

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

Dodd Center to Host Bipartisan Conversation on Fostering Civic and Democratic Engagement

Two longtime members of Congress will bring their insights to UConn on September 26

A Second Year of Messing About in Boats at Avery Point

'There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats'