Board Votes to Name Buildings After Austin, Rowe
By Michael Kirk The Board of Trustees voted last week to name two Storrs campus buildings in honor of former President Philip E. Austin and former Board Chair John W. Rowe. The College of Liberal Arts...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Biofilm-Forming Bacteria
Summer 2010: Determining the Effect of Spacing in Protection of Staphylococcus aureus by Pseudomonas Aeruginosa By Leonela Villegas and Leslie Shor, Ph.D. The research that I have been conducting since...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Chondrogenic Disease Modeling
Summer 2012: Chondrogenic Disease Modeling: A Study of Signaling Across iPS and hESC derived Chondrocytes By Michael Tassavor, Dr. Sara Patterson, and Dr. Caroline Dealy I worked with Dr. Patterson and...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Characterization of Drosophila Interacting Genes
Summer 2012: Characterization of Drosophila Interacting Genes: Elucidating the Mechanism(s) of PolyQ Toxicity in Huntington’s Disease By Daniel R. Camacho, Ping Zhang, Ph.D. Polyglutamine expansions...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Health in the Buduburam Refugee Camp
Summer 2012: The Socio-Political Influences on Health in the Buduburam Refugee Camp By Gian Grant, Dr. Elizabeth Holzer The United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) recognizes that there...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Translesional Synthesis DNA Polymerases
Summer 2012: Structure and Interactions of Translesional Synthesis DNA Polymerases By Maciej Kosakowski, Dr. Dmitry Korzhnev, Ph.D., Dr. Irena Bezsonova, Ph.D. During my weeks with the College Summer...
View ArticleLubonja’s research published in ‘Science of Advanced Materials’
Before Klair Lubonja even started classes his freshman year he was engaged in research courtesy of the Pre-College Enrichment Program, sponsored by the Department of Health Career Opportunity Programs...
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Former Board Chairman Dr. John W. Rowe Honored at Building Naming Ceremony
Dr. John W. Rowe, former Board of Trustees Chairman, speaks during the naming ceremony for the John W. Rowe Center for Undergraduate Education. Seated from left, President Susan Herbst, Lawrence...
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Real World Preparation Characterizes Student Nurse’s Education
Mallory Perry ’14 (NUR) is interested in pediatric intensive care. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo) By Lauren Lalancette A number of Division III schools vied for Middletown’s Mercy High School athlete of...
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A UConn Medical Student First
Match Day, March 15: Shawnet Jones (right) learns she’s staying at the UConn Health Center for a family medicine residency. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Center Photo) By Chris DeFrancesco Commencement...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: John Garcia
John Garcia (Junior) Originally from Colombia, John Garcia moved to Connecticut during middle school. A graduate of William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, CT, it was during high school that John...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: Christian Gonzales
Christian Gonzales (Junior) Christian Gonzales is a biomedical engineering student who’s working on a Latino studies minor and who plans to go to medical school to be a surgeon. Originally from Lima,...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: Rabale Hasan
Rabale Hasan Rabale Hasan, a graduate of Hall High School, is a first-generation American-born citizen. Though she resides in West Hartford, CT, her family is originally from Pakistan. A long time...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: Rubby Koomson
Rubby Koomson Rubby Koomson is a nursing major who hopes to enter the field of public health. From East Hartford, CT, she graduated from East Hartford High School. She recently spent a summer in Ghana,...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: Elizabeth Martin
Elizabeth Martin (Junior) Elizabeth Martin, a nursing major from Bridgeport, CT, became interested in being a registered nurse after volunteering at St. Vincent’s Medical Center and St. Mary’s...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: Fariya Naz
Fariya Naz (Junior) Fariya Naz graduated with high honors from Danbury High School. Though her early childhood was spent in Pakistan, she moved to Danbury, CT at the age of eight. At Danbury Hospital...
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2013 Rowe Scholar: Alexis Oseiwusu
Alexis Oseiwusu (Junior) Alexis Oseiwusu’s family is originally from Ghana, West Africa. She was born in Inglewood, CA and moved to Danbury, CT when she was in the sixth grade. While Alexis studied at...
View Article2013 Rowe Scholar: Donna Aranibar
Donna Aranibar is originally from Lima, Peru though she’s lived for the past 10 years in Glastonbury, CT where she graduated from Glastonbury High School. She will be attending UConn in the fall as a...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Premenstrual Syndrome in Minority Women
Fall 2012-Spring 2014: An Exploratory Pilot of Factors Associated with Premenstrual Syndrome in Minority Women By Mallory Perry; Michelle Judge, PhD, RD; Deborah D. McDonald, PhD, RN Research evidence...
View ArticleRowe Researcher: Assessing the 2012 NHANES Chemosensory Component
Summer-Fall 2013: Assessing the Validity and Reliability of the 2012 NHANES Chemosensory Component By Mallory Honda, Shristi Rawal, Dr. Valerie Duffy In 2012, the National Health and Nutritional...
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