Interested in doing research over the summer but don’t know where to start? Join us in this workshop to learn about how to find summer research opportunities and UConn and beyond.

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This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2024 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

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The Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award program provides thousands of dollars in support of undergraduate students’ summer research and creative projects. The SURF program is open to undergraduate students in all majors at all campuses who plan to graduate no earlier than December 2025. Students can apply for funding of up to $5,500 per student. Join us to learn how to apply and what makes an application successful.

This information session is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Additional information on the SURF Award program can be found at https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/surf/. If you require an accommodation to participate in this session, please contact the Office of Undergraduate Research at our@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the session.

Drop in at any time to get some work done before finals in a comfortable setting! Refreshments, snacks, and fun study breaks will be included!

The Office for Diversity and Inclusion would like to invite faculty and staff to pause and be in community with us as they are able.

Many in our community are impacted by events happening on a global scale including atrocities in Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, as well as natural disasters. Often those impacted find themselves working so hard to support their loved ones and communities they forget to pause to support themselves, to take a moment to reflect, mourn, or set aside time to be in community with each other.

Join us for a biweekly Coffee Break in the Student Union RM 103 at the Storrs campus where you can find some time away from the office to enjoy your coffee alone or in conversation with your colleagues.

A virtual option is available here: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m4c0b5c177a1e825f40652ddda2e8e887

The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience. 

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Janet L. Pritchard will discuss her current creative research project in landscape photography, Abiding River: Connecticut River Views & Stories. As a landscape photographer, her reliance on research sets her work apart. As a UCHI Fellow this year, Pritchard is drafting her project as a book. Fellowship time allows her to keep more balls in the air as she mentally juggles thousands of photographs to decide which to include against what she needs to finish. The nature of this landscape is different than that of her previous project on Yellowstone National Park; thus, the river book’s structure must reflect that. Her presentation will trace work this fall as she immerses herself in the process.

Before photography, Janet L. Pritchard was an outdoor education instructor and spent her youth between the Northeast and Rocky Mountain West in the US. She describes herself as geographically bilingual. Her methodology, described as historical empathy, relies on archival materials to guide her depictions of complex landscapes as expressions of time and place, situating landscapes at the intersection of nature and culture. Pritchard was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. She exhibits widely, and her recent project on Yellowstone National Park, titled More than Scenery: Yellowstone, an American Love Story, was published in 2022. She is a professor and graduate advisor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Connecticut.

Joscha Jelitzki is a scholar of German Jewish literature, and a PhD candidate in German and Judaic Studies at UConn at the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Before joining UCHI as the Richard Brown Dissertation Fellow, he completed his research in Vienna as the 2024 Franz Werfel Fellow. He previously studied in Berlin, Frankfurt (Oder), and Jerusalem, and worked as an assistant from 2016–2019 for the critical edition of the works of Hannah Arendt. His focus is on modern German and Austrian Jewish literature and thought, theories of sexuality and secularization. He has published articles on Martin Buber and literature, the biblical figure of Job in modern Jewish literature, and on German-Jewish gangsta-rap.

Join us if your an undergraduate student looking to learn more about how to ask for and organize letters of recommendation.

What is Creative Mindfulness?

Do you ever notice that when you’re drawing or making something, the time flies by? Sometimes, it is just the process of doing something creative that is enjoyable, rather than the finished result. This is what creative mindfulness is all about.

Intercultural Programs and Support (IPS) in collaboration with UConn MFA International Student, Afra Hassan Pour, are hosting a series of Creative Mindfulness Workshops. The meetings aspire to provide a space for all international students to come together, have a moment of mindfulness, wind down and create.

Art supplies, snacks, and coffee & tea will be provided.

All skill and creative levels are welcome!

Presented by Intercultural Programs and Support (IPS).

All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Pre-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), even if unpaid and required for your class or program. If you are considering a future off-campus work opportunity or placement, you are required to attend this workshop before you apply for CPT or Pre-Completion OPT with ISSS.

Hello Graduate Students!

Stop by CISS after dinner and wind down with board games! Play a round of Catan, Monopoly, Uno, Scrabble, or a different game with graduate student friends. 

A few games and snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorite board game to play! 

Presented by Intercultural Programs and Support (IPS).

Join the Rainbow Center in observing World AIDS Day on Friday, December 6th from 6-8pm, with a screening of the classic New Queer Cinema film “The Living End” (1992), which tells the story of two queer men who cross paths after receiving their HIV diagnoses. There will also be free food and refreshments served! Content Warnings: strong, graphic language, sex, nudity, violence and blood, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, intense scenes, and horror scenes.

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For more information visit: Samara Joy “A Joyful Holiday”

The Center for International Students and Scholars (CISS) is planning a full day trip to NYC on Monday, December 16th. Students are welcome to spend the day and do as many activities as they like. NYC is a beautiful place to visit - especially during the Holidays!

You can register through UConn marketplace at the link below. The trip fee is $50 per person. 

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Presented by Intercultural Programs and Support (IPS).

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This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2024 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.