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).

This presentation uses an art-science animation that combines scientific climate simulations and speculative story telling. It will reveal connections between our human activity and our ecosystem, and environmental changes occurring in the rapidly warming Arctic, the region of our planet warming most rapidly because of climate change.Anne Lindemann, Digital Media and Design Department, UConn

This presentation uses an art-science animation that combines scientific climate simulations and speculative story telling. It will reveal connections between our human activity and our ecosystem, and environmental changes occurring in the rapidly warming Arctic, the region of our planet warming most rapidly because of climate change.Anne Lindemann, Digital Media and Design Department, UConn

Dr. Amy MacQueen Wesleyan University Host: Stacey HanlonZippers and Stitches in the Meiotic Nucleus Dr. MacQueen will present data that informs how we think one meiosis-specific protein, Zip1, manages to carry out two different jobs within the meiotic nucleus. Zip1 carries out two independent activities that each contribute to ensuring chromosomes generate a stable association with their proper (homologous) pairing partners, a task that is critical for the formation of gamete nuclei carrying the proper number of chromosomes. Interestingly, one of Zip1's critical jobs involves processing DNA recombination intermediates at discrete sites along chromosomes, while Zip1's other job involves the assembly of a relatively large chromosomal complex that globally "zips" the entire length of chromosome axes into close proximity. We have acquired data showing that Zip1's two activities are regulated by adjacent regions of its N terminal tip, and that phosphorylation may serve as a molecular "switch", changing Zip1's capacity to carry out these two roles.Publications:Full-Length Synaptonemal Complex Grows Continuously during Meiotic Prophase in Budding Yeast (https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002993)Crossover recombination and synapsis are linked by adjacent regions within the N terminus of the Zip1 synaptonemal complex protein (https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1008201)Proximity labeling reveals new functional relationships between meiotic recombination proteins in S. cerevisiaeMacQueen Lab website (https://macqueenlab.research.wesleyan.edu/)

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.