The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) at UConn (P30 AG067988; Kuchel, Fortinsky - MPIs) is one of fifteen such centers throughout the United States funded by the National Institute on Aging at NIH. "Pepper Centers" honor Claude D. Pepper, the late Congressman who advocated for senior health and research to enable older adults to maintain or restore their independence. The overarching goal of the OAIC (Pepper) Program is to enhance function and independence in older adults through research. The UConn Pepper Center is pioneering a theme focused on Precision Gerontology, an approach to aging research and the care of older adults that seeks to render interventions enhancing function and independence more effective through an improved understanding of heterogeneity and more precise targeting (https://health.uconn.edu/pepper-center/). A key component of all Pepper Centers is the Research Education Component (REC), which provides financial support, education, and training to Pepper Scholars who Pepper Center leadership identify as showing particular promise as independent investigators. The REC at the UConn Pepper Center, led by Dr. David Steffens and Dr. George Kuchel, includes senior research leaders at UConn and Jackson Lab who could serve as mentors to Pepper Scholars (https://health.uconn.edu/pepper-center/research-and-education-component-rec/). A mentored research project is a primary focus of being a REC Scholar. We are issuing this solicitation to early stage faculty with an interest in aging-related research. Individuals with experience in this area are encouraged to apply, as are those with research backgrounds in non-aging related fields whose research might be enhanced with a new aging focus. Physician scientists and clinicians in other disciplines are especially encouraged to apply. We anticipate funding two new UConn Pepper Scholars through this competition. Funding for two Pepper Scholar positions would begin July 1, 2025. Pepper Scholar awards are typically awarded for one year, with a second year of funding based on evidence of progress and need. Since this award is taking place in year 5 of the current UConn Pepper Center funding cycle, a year 2 Pepper Scholar Award will also be contingent upon the parent grant's successful competitive renewal. The overall goals of the Pepper Center are focused on improving function and independence among older adults. As such the following criteria for Pepper Scholar Selection were developed to be consistent with these goals: • Trainee potential and commitment to an academic career • Demonstrated commitment to aging research • Alignment of proposed training and work with the broader mission of the NIA OAIC Pepper Center Program and the focus on UConn Pepper Center on Precision Gerontology • Availability and commitment of suitable mentorship • Ability to benefit from OAIC resources As an initial step prior to submitting a full Pepper Scholar application, we are requesting that potential candidates submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), due by 5 PM on January 17, 2025. The LOI should be one single-spaced page consisting of two paragraphs. The first paragraph should highlight aspects of the candidate's educational, training, and research background that are most relevant to the Pepper Scholar program, followed by a statement of how the candidate will benefit from the Pepper Scholars program. The second paragraph should include a brief description of the research project that will be supported by the Pepper Center REC. In addition to the LOI, candidates should submit either an NIH Biosketch (preferred) or a CV. The LOI and Biosketch/CV should be addressed to Dr. David Steffens, REC Core Leader and Dr. George Kuchel, REC Core Co-Leader, and emailed to Ms. Laura Masi at masi@uchc.edu Selected candidates will then be notified by January 31, 2025 and invited to submit a full application for the Pepper Scholar Program for a March 28, 2025 deadline.

Our latest exhibit in Celeste LeWitt Gallery features "Luminous Pastels" by Jane Penfield and "Reflective Moments" by Paul R. Berger.(Note new date for reception.)

Chem 1124, Chem 1127 and Chem 1128 students are presenting on variety of topics: (1) How is Chemistry related to their major? (2) Explain one of the experiments they have done in the lab. (3) Practical application of any lab or a concept in the real world. (4) An element from the periodic table and describe its properties and application/uses.

We will be collecting money from online dares such as Pieing a sister or doing a Tiktok Dance. All proceeds will go to our philanthropy.

Throughout the entire month of November, Sammy (Sigma Alpha Mu) will be raising money for the Judy Fund supporting Alzheimer's research. Check our Instagram story for our venmo!

On the Move is a photography exhibition celebrating the completion of an interdisciplinary inquiry at the unexpected intersection of physical therapy, photography, and art history. Awarded a UConn STEAM Innovation Grant in 2020, three early-career UConn professors created a study aimed at using creative movement and long-exposure photography to improve gait-training, motivation, and quality of life for Parkinson's disease patients. On the Move showcases the photographs created by participants during the study, and points to new horizons for collaborative research in the arts and sciences. The exhibition is funded by a University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts STEAM Innovation Grant to principal co-investigators Clare Benson, Cristina Colón-Semenza and Charlotte Gray.

Our organizations will be hosting a Thanksgiving can and bottle drive from 11/17-11/22. We will have a bin for collecting these cans and bottles outside of the Phi Delta Theta Husky Village House and donations are welcome at any time throughout the week. We will be taking the funds raised through this drive and donating them to the families of Connecticut Children's.

UConn Health Day 2 new employee orientation is conducted on Saba. It focuses on comprehensive training for our newest workforce, covering diversity awareness, sexual harassment prevention, and compliance to ensure a respectful and compliant work environment.AgendaDay 2Format: Saba Self-Guided Learning Time: 8 am - 4:30 pm Location: RemoteActivities: Dive deeper into your compliance and role-specific training and explore resources at your own pace.

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

As respiratory season picks up, prepare and protect yourself with the flu vaccine! SHaW will be hosting a flu vaccine clinic in partnership with Genoa Healthcare on 11/18, from 10am-2pm, in HTB 209. This is open to students, faculty and staff. Bring your insurance card!

Virtual drop in hours (https://career.business.uconn.edu/undergraduate/appointment/) are Monday-Friday via Nexus & In person drop in hours are available Monday,Tuesday and Friday in our Storrs officie. 11am-Noon. You can also make an appointment (https://career.business.uconn.edu/undergraduate/appointment/) with one of our career counselors or email your career questions to recruit@business.uconn.edu. (mailto:recruit@business.uconn.edu) Check our website for more resources: https://career.business.uconn.edu/undergraduate/

What's up! Sammy (Sigma Alpha Mu) is gonna have a pie event Monday November 18th. $3 to pie one of us, and $5 to pie two of us (or one of us twice). Proceeds go directly to the Ben Wills foundation.

Students who may benefit from attending a Let's Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team (https://studentcareteam.uconn.edu/). This session is held by Fumi Sowah, LCSW (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/olufumilayo-sowah/)

Presentation on OVPR Research Development Services

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Title: "Catalytic and noncatalytic functions of DNA polymerase κ in Translesion DNA synthesis", Authors and Journal: Seller-Baiget et al., Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2024

This session offers one-on-one resume and cover letter critiques for current students. The aim is to help students enhance their resumes and cover letters to increase their competitiveness in the job application process. To participate, students should register in advance on Handshake, and priority will be given to early registrants. We recommend that students either print their resume and cover letter or have them available on their laptops during the session.

Bake sale in collaboration with Phi Sigma Rho and Lambda Alpha Upsilon where all money raised goes to benefit their philanthropies

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD dissertation "Novel Sorbent Materials for Adsorptive Desulfurization of Petroleum Fuels and Biodiesel." This dissertation presents investigation into the characteristics and mechanisms of adsorptive desulfurization by bimetallic ion-exchanged Y zeolite as well as renewable carbon sorbents.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD dissertation "Novel Sorbent Materials for Adsorptive Desulfurization of Petroleum Fuels and Biodiesel." This dissertation presents investigation into the characteristics and mechanisms of adsorptive desulfurization by bimetallic ion-exchanged Y zeolite as well as renewable carbon sorbents.

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Introduction to Mindfulness SHaW's Introduction to Mindfulness is a skill-based workshop meant to support stress reduction and overall wellbeing. Skills and Concepts Introduced: • Definition and benefits of mindfulness • Present moment awareness • Noticing • Accepting DROP-IN (no appointment required)

Two workshops will be held at the Rainbow Center focusing on LinkedIn and interviewing. During these workshops, students can learn how to prepare for interviews, improve their interview skills, optimize their LinkedIn profiles to stand out, build confidence, and refine their networking abilities.

Two workshops will be held at the Rainbow Center focusing on LinkedIn and interviewing. During these workshops, students can learn how to prepare for interviews, improve their interview skills, optimize their LinkedIn profiles to stand out, build confidence, and refine their networking abilities.

This holiday season, the Alarmingly Outstanding Hermanas are selling treats common in our culture for the holiday season. We have Tamales that are filled with green salsa and chicken, Arroz con Leche, and Buñuelos with honey.

Research presentations by: Jack Albert Angélica Giménez Ravanelli Caitlin Gogulski Alex Kueny Santiago Mayochi Alberto García Maldonado is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at San José State University. He is a graduate of UC Davis, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, and the author of Abandoning their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (University of California Press, 2023). Light refreshments will be provided.

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Students who may benefit from attending a Let's Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team (https://studentcareteam.uconn.edu/). This session is held by Fumi Sowah, LCSW (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/olufumilayo-sowah/)

If you signed up for a Thanksgiving meal kit, they are available for pickup on Monday, November 18th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the lobby. It is important that you pick up your kit during this time, as we cannot guarantee availability if you miss this window. Extra items requested will also be included with your kit, if possible.

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Barbershop The "Barbershop Group" is a therapy group for men who have had past traumatic experiences and would like to learn new ways of coping and managing the effects of that trauma. The group recognizes the need for men to develop different skills that will effectively improve how we express our emotions and build relationships in a safe space. What better place to do that than the barbershop? The Barbershop model is derived from the "Men's Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model"- (M-TREM.) The Barbershop Group uses a Psycho-educational and skills-oriented approach that is person-centered. Over the years The Barbershop has provided men with a safe, non-judgmental setting where they can speak freely and be themselves. Unfortunately, we will not be providing haircuts, but we will be providing open discussion where honest responses in group discussions are encouraged, and we will engage in several exercises that are used to introduce you to and try new coping skills. I look forward to seeing you all at "The Shop".To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705 (tel:860-486-4705). This session is held by Greg Davis, LPC   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.

The Social Epistemology Working Group (Also known as SEW or the SEWing Circle) investigates philosophical issues at the intersection of epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of technology and AI, and social and political philosophy. Activities include research presentations, reading groups, and external speakers.

Dungeon's and Therapy Role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and Quest allow participants to take on the persona of fictional characters and to complete daring adventures across mysterious worlds. This therapy group takes the core elements of these games but also challenges you to set goals that will help change your behavior, attitude, and mindset in the real world. In Dungeons & Therapy, you will work with a mental health clinician to create a fantasy character that is personalized to you and your goals. This character might excel at something with which you struggle, be the complete opposite of who you are, or be designed to help you emphasize any given attribute. Within sessions of Dungeons & Therapy, you will interact with other players not only to find treasures, solve puzzles, and converse with enigmatic individuals - but also to express meaningful parts of yourself. No previous experience with Dungeons & Dragons or any other RPG is required.To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705 (tel:860-486-4705). This session is held by Alyson Faires, Psy.D 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.

Drop-In to the Business Career Development Office for a Headshot. Most Mondays during the regular semester NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY Email recruit@business.uconn.edu with any questions . We will use your smartphone with our professional back drop. Wear business attire from the waist up. 

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

David et al. 2024. PNAS. Saccharomycotina yeasts defy long-standing macroecological patterns. https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2316031121 (https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2316031121)

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

This series of three seminars in the Global Voices Feminist Theory and Gender Section Seminar Series will take us on a journey of sense making, justice talking and relationship cultivating against and beyond the logics and (ir)rationalities of the genocidal. We foreground the global as genocidal as this logic of anti-life (re)produces the global not as innocence and progress but as hetero-patriarchal(settler) coloniality as dispossession and violation of territories of land/Country and body/flesh and disavowal of Indigenous sovereignties and anti-Blackness. We do not do this to speak yet again of the violences and violations but to grieve together as dignity, politicise our rage, and stand in irreverent defiance against our annihilation as racialised and feminised queer and trans peoples, poets, philosophers, lovers, (m)others, siblings and kin. We foreground the rebellious, (our) survivance, the plural sided nature of our knowing-being and re-existencias on the exteriority of the barbed wire fence of the colonial divide. The first in our series 'On resisting and survivance despite genocide' welcomes two activist scholars Dr Hawzhin Azeez and Dr Jumana Bayeh in dialogue with FTGS Incoming Section Chair Dr Sara C. Motta who stand at the front lines in relation to their communities and kin and the struggle for freedom, sovereignty and survivance. PANELISTS: Hawzhin Azeez (Macquarie University), Jumana Bayeh (The Kurdish Center for Studies), and Sara C. Motta (University of Newcastle) Interested in staying up-to-date on all of ISA's virtual programming? Sign up for ISA Connected here: https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Virtual-Programs/ISA-Connected (https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Virtual-Programs/ISA-Connected)

International Education Week 2024 kicks off with a screening of Brief Tender Light, a 2023 documentary by Arthur Musah. English. 93 minutes.  As undergraduate students at America's premier technological university, a group of ambitious African students come of age, learning lessons in and beyond the classroom. They embarked on their MIT education with individual ambitions – to run a civil engineering company and be a shining example for girls in Tanzania; to secure a better life for family in northern Nigeria; to contribute to postgenocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to enter into politics and the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. Their missions are distinct, but fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home. Even as their dreams are anchored in the societies they have left, their daily realities are defined by America – by the immediate challenges in their MIT classrooms and the larger social issues confronting the world outside of those classrooms. Their new environment demands they adapt. Each is forced to refine their ideas about the world and about themselves, ultimately deciding how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to transform youthful ideals into adult action.This is an Honors Event. See tags below for categories. #UHLevent10982

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Come study with the sophisticated ladies of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc. on November 18th from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in McHugh 108 as we pursue our first goal; academic excellence.

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).