The Middle Eastern Cultural Programs invite you to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year! Nowruz is celebrated on the Spring equinox. It has been a day of great celebration throughout Iranian history; it is mankind’s oldest known holiday and is still celebrated by more than 300 million people around the world. It celebrates the triumph of […]
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Resilience and Overcoming Failure
Chuk is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur and investor, laser-focused on leveraging technology to solve today’s systemic problems for a more equitable & inclusive future. He is the co-founder & CEO of Humblebrag, an early-stage deal discovery platform that makes it easy for scouts to get compensated and funders to find nascent deals before anyone else. In […]
Navigating Grad School as a First Generation Grad Student
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Getting into Graduate School: What? Why? When?
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, professor of History at the University of Nebraska, for her talk “Why History Matters in American Medicine, Slavery, and the Development of Gynecology.” This in-person event will be held on Friday, April 8, 2022 from 3:30 to 5:00 PM in […]
UC Irvine: Panel on Title IX and Student Activism
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion would like to draw your attention to a panel event held by the University of California, Irvine: Title IX and Student Activism. This panel will focus specifically on how student voices can be most impactful in effecting change related to sexual assault on campus. From their website: Whether protesting outside […]
Roxane Gay: With One “N” Women’s Herstory Opening
Wed, Mar 9, 7:00 pm Vaccination or negative COVID-19 test required for all patrons age 12+. Masks required. General Admission. Limited capacity. Please review our full Covid policy. Join us for an evening with Roxane Gay, author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism […]
Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar Presentation at the Mark Twain House
UConn’s Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music, Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, will be presenting TONIGHT on “Zora Neale Hurston: You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays.” From The Mark Twain House website: Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the […]
bell hooks’s Legacy of Love and Liberation
The Center for Excellence in Teaching in Learning (CETL) is proud to present a three-part series, “What’s Love Got to do With It? bell hooks’s Black People & Love.” This series will have three virtual events: February 22: Salvation: Black People & Love (12:00 – 1:30 PM) March 8: Communion: The Female Search for Love […]
Global Health Symposium – “Connecting People, Place, and Health”
Global Health Spaces on Campus (GloHSOC) is organizing our 5th Annual Global Health Symposium: Connecting People, Place, and Health. This symposium will feature keynote speakers, panelists who are experts in global health, and breakout sessions with professionals across the world. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and connect with experience new perspectives on global health. […]