It’s April, the cruelest month (especially for academics).  Apparently, poet T.S. Eliot knew a thing or two.  But what he might not have also known is this: There Are Prizes!! Yes, it’s true! It’s time to start thinking about two significant prizes for UConn graduate students.   Aetna Graduate Teaching of Writing Award Prize: Maximum $500 […]

Professor Brenda Brueggemann, Storrs Campus, has received a JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) grant for her work on the Mansfield Training School and its importance in the local history of disability visibility. Learn more about Prof. Brueggemann and her students’ work from our article in last fall’s newsletter from Pascale Joachim, ’23 (CLAS) Congratulations […]

Professor Grégory Pierrot, Stamford campus, has received a faculty research grant from UConn’s Africana Studies Institute. This grant will go towards building a multi-national project to create and curate a free-access, digital scholarly edition, and translation into English, of the French-language Revue des Colonies. Congratulations, Prof. Pierrot!

Congratulations to Kiedra Taylor, ’24 (Ph.D.), who has won the 2023 CETL Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award! Read more about Kiedra’s work with the Connecticut Writing Project and the Write On, Black Girl! magazine.

Congratulations to Katherine “Kat” Jimenez, ’24 (CLAS), who has officially been named a 2023 Beinecke Scholar! Kat will become the university’s first student with this accolade, which includes $35,000 in scholarships. Read Kat’s nomination biography on the ONSF website.