This will be an end-of-the-year poster session where students will present research posters to the UConn community.

UConn Sexpert Peer Support Drop-In Hours are a new, free service offered by peer health educators, the UConn Sexperts, on the UConn Storrs campus! Peer Support Drop-In Hours are a great option for students who have questions about sex and sexual health, are looking for a non-judgmental, laid-back environment to discuss a sex related concern or issue, or are interested in improving their sexual health and personal well-being. Our UConn Sexperts are trained to provide education, support, and connection to resources on and off-campus on a wide variety of topics pertaining to sex, sexual health, and relationships. Mondays: 11:00am-4:00pm                                                                                        Tuesdays: 3:00pm-6:30pm                                                                                    Wednesdays: 10:30am-6:30pm                                                                                Thursdays: 3:30pm-6:30pm                                                                                        Fridays: 10:30am-5:00pm UConn Sexperts (and supervising staff) are designated confidential employees under UConn's Title IX Reporting Obligations. Peer support sessions are for educational and support purposes only. Peer support visits are not on-call or emergency services, and are not for individualized medical advice, nor are they counseling or therapy. For more information, visit www.studenthealth.uconn.edu/sexperts 

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Saraswathi Bellur, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Major AdvisorAnne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Associate AdvisorJocelyn Steinke, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Associate Advisor   Abstract   With over 5.22 billion social media users and an average of 2 hours and 23 minutes per day spent between social media platforms, social media use has become an integral part of many people's lives. The LGBTQ+ community has been found more likely to use social media compared to the general population via information-seeking, following and interacting with LGBTQ+ media personae, and connecting with other LGBTQ+ individuals for social support and community connection. Social media usage and well-being has been extensively studied, but results have been mixed, suggesting content and motives behind usage are just as, if not more, important for studying than simple frequency of use. To better understand the relationship between social media usage and well-being within the LGBTQ+ community, this proposed study, through uses and gratifications theory and the parasocial contact hypothesis, examines the roles of social media gratifications and parasocial relationships on reducing feelings of stigma and increasing feelings of community connectedness, self-acceptance, and well-being. Implications include more critically examining social media usage and well-being, extending the parasocial contact hypothesis in new contexts, and identifying healthy social media usage for LGBTQ+ individuals.

On Wednesday, 12/4/24, Dr. Rosaria Guzzo will be here at UConn for our seminar series from University of Connecticut, Health. Her talk will be titled "Role of Dot1L histone methyltransferase in development, regeneration and disease"

Rings of algebraic integers have a number of well-known properties that make them particularly nice contexts in which to work. Among them is the fact that one can determine the elasticity of the ring simply by looking at the ideal class group. In this talk, we will explore how we might infer factorization properties of orders in algebraic number fields from specific relationships they might have with the corresponding number rings. We will also explore ways in which we might find orders which have (or fail to have) these relationships.