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Please come to CISS during our spring 2025 study hall hours. This time is open to anyone needing a quiet place to study, do homework, or work on final assignments.

Please come to CISS during our spring 2025 study hall hours. This time is open to anyone needing a quiet place to study, do homework, or work on final assignments.

This session is for F-1 students who will do an internship or work off-campus before graduating, or for students who have internships and clinical placements as part of your academic curriculum. 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.

Please come to CISS during our spring 2025 study hall hours. This time is open to anyone needing a quiet place to study, do homework, or work on final assignments.

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We’ll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu

Please come to CISS during our spring 2025 study hall hours. This time is open to anyone needing a quiet place to study, do homework, or work on final assignments.

Do you want to work in the U.S. after you graduate? Are you on an F-1 visa? Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Spring 2025 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Please come to CISS during our spring 2025 study hall hours. This time is open to anyone needing a quiet place to study, do homework, or work on final assignments.

El Instituto’s MA Student, Apoliana da Conceição dos Santos, is presenting her thesis and everyone is welcome to join! 

We have limited space in conference room 240. To attend in person, RSVP for your spot.

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“Translating Blackness in 19th-Century Afro-Brazilian Literature: Unsilencing the Archive,” by Apoliana da Conceição dos Santos.

Brief description: This study examines how Maria Firmina dos Reis, a free Afro-Brazilian woman, used her groundbreaking 1859 novel “Úrsula” to challenge racial hierarchies in 19th-century Brazil. Firmina strategically employed the Romantic novel form to “translate Blackness”; she humanized enslaved people and critiqued the institution of slavery using moral and religious arguments, countering the predominant economic concerns of her time. This analysis applies Lorgia García Peña’s concepts to understand how Firmina navigated her position as a free mixed-race woman to assert Afro-Brazilian voices in a literary tradition that typically excluded them. The research connects the novel to its contemporary newspaper discourses and positions Firmina’s work as an important early example of literary resistance against colonial narratives in Brazil.

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Like blood in our veins, racism pervades healthcare.

It pushes some people’s pain, voices, and bodies aside. It distorts care and kills people faster, but it continues to be an invisible risk factor.

Too many continue to deny or look past this reality — that this system meant to heal is causing harm. But some fearless nurses are saying it’s time to get to work.

Address human suffering. Advocate for the voiceless. This is where nursing began.

But to heal, it will take everyone standing up and speaking out. Health justice, after all, is everybody’s work.

Please come to CISS during our spring 2025 study hall hours. This time is open to anyone needing a quiet place to study, do homework, or work on final assignments.

Join us as we celebrate the end of the semester and our graduates with light refreshments, games, and good company!

Don’t miss this chance to relax and enjoy time with friends before the break!

Registration is appreciated.

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We’ll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu

Do you want to work in the U.S. after you graduate? Are you on an F-1 visa? Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Spring 2025 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.