Master Calendar

Major Advisor: Grégory Pierrot Associate Advisors: Katharine Capshaw, Erika Williams Departmental Readers: Eleni Coundouriotis and Najnin Islam

Event will be held in the Library Class of 1947 Room. Virtual attendance details can be found at swapecoevo.weebly.com/phd-defense.

Swapna's PhD advisor Dan Bolnick says "Her thesis is a wonderful mixture of field natural history of yeasts on our local apple orchards, experimental evolution, and comparative population genomics."

Interpersonal Group for Graduate Students Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities. Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4700 (tel:+18604864705) This session is held by Carlos- Gonzalez- Martinez, LCSW (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/carlos-gonzalez-martinez/) For many concerns that students face – like overwhelming stress, anxiety, difficult relationships, depression, academic difficulties, and more – group therapy is the best option for support and healing. Facilitated by Student Health and Wellness (SHaW) counselors, our therapy groups encourage peer support, promote emotional wellbeing, and increase a felt sense of connection. Participants often find that they feel less alone in their struggles, and walk away with newfound support and ideas for coping.

Led by a member of our Admissions team, this one-on-one visit opportunity includes a 60-minute personalized tour of campus and an optional 30-minute residence hall tour. Bring your questions to ask along the way! Register here: https://connect.uconn.edu/register/?id=0de1d8a0-a62b-4216-b623-f9df55b71084

Interpersonal Group for Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities. Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback. To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4700 (tel:860-486-4705). This session is held by Maritza Lugo-Stalker, (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/maritza-lugo-stalker/) For many concerns that students face – like overwhelming stress, anxiety, difficult relationships, depression, academic difficulties, and more – group therapy is the best option for support and healing. Facilitated by Student Health and Wellness (SHaW) counselors, our therapy groups encourage peer support, promote emotional wellbeing, and increase a felt sense of connection. Participants often find that they feel less alone in their struggles, and walk away with newfound support and ideas for coping.

Dr. John Salogiannis Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics University of VermontLarner College of Medicine at University of Vermont Burlington Host: Aoife HeaslipDual modes of microtubule-based transport: adaptors and hitchhikers The Salogiannis lab studies a novel mode of intracellular movement called hitchhiking. In hitchhiking, organelles move along microtubules by attaching to motor-driven vesicles at membrane contact sites.About Dr. SalogiannisDr. Salogiannis graduated with a B.S. in Neurobiology and Psychology from the University of Maryland in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University in 2013 and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD from 2014-2021. Dr. Salogiannis joined the faculty in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics as an Assistant Professor in 2021Movement of the endoplasmic reticulum is driven by multiple classes of vesicles marked by Rab-GTPases (https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.1091/mbc.E24-04-0197)Acyl-coA binding protein AcbdA regulates peroxisome hitchhiking on early endosomes (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649231v1)Salogiannis Lab Website (https://www.salogiannislab.org)

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

🐝 CFSD Spelling Bee Community Day 🐝 📅 Tuesday, November 11 🕔 5:00 PM 📍 Student Union Room 104

As you consider the Doctorate (PhD) program in Business Administration at UConn, it is extremely important that you make an informed choice, and attending a virtual infosession is a valuable way to gather the missing pieces. The PhD Virtual Infosessions are an ideal opportunity to learn first-hand about our highly regarded program and hear from admissions representatives.

Do you feel prepared to act in the event of a medical emergency? Do you want to learn how to recognize and stop a life threatening bleed? If so, join us to learn how to Stop The Bleed!   This course, taught by a UConn Rescue BLS and STB instructor, will cover recognition of life threatening bleeds and how to treat them through direct pressure, wound packing, and application of a tourniquet. There will be opportunity for hands on skills practice and each student will receive a Stop The Bleed certification at no cost. No experience is needed, all are welcome!  Please RVSP by Monday, November 10th for this event using this link:https://www.uconnrescue.com/booking-calendar/stop-the-bleed-in-person-class?referral=service_list_widget (https://www.uconnrescue.com/booking-calendar/stop-the-bleed-in-person-class?referral=service_list_widget)  This is an Honors Event. Seetagsbelow for category information. #UHLevent11295

As soloists, the artists have been successfully touring the major stages throughout Europe, Asia and North and South America for more than twenty years. Since joining forces in 2017, the trio has been enjoying the treasures of the piano trio repertoire in concerts throughout Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and South America. Program will include works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns.

Join Hudson Webber as he performs his second DMA recital.

Post LEAP celebration event occurring at the Lady! Pizza provided by the venue, as is DJ and a dance floor will be open for all to enjoy.

The Connecticut Writing Project (CWP) sponsors Connecticut Student Writers (CSW), a magazine established in 1987 by the CWP to honor excellence in writing by students from kindergarten through high school. The highlight of the publication process is the Student Recognition Night, a celebration hosted by the CWP on the UConn campus. For more details on how to submit, visit the CWP website linked below.

Enjoy this unique exhibition of rock music memorabilia from the archive of editor, journalist, and radio disc jockey Ken Best. This personal collection features decades worth of iconic photos, album covers, posters and promotional materials that Best has amassed while writing about music for newspapers in New Jersey and Connecticut and interviewing musicians and authors on the radio at WPKN in Bridgeport and WHUS in Storrs. Highlighted will be 50 photos of major rock 'n' roll figures by Connecticut photographer Joseph Sia, including his famous image of Jimi Hendrix at Woolsey Hall in New Haven in 1968, known as "The Shadow," from Best and Sia's 1992 book,Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock 'n' Roll (Pomegranate Books).