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The global job market is being shaped by AI, and early literacy helps students make informed academic and career choices as AI becomes central to many industries. This event will demystify AI, make AI feel approachable, and build a foundation of confidence in preparation for STEM fields. The summer camp will also build awareness of AI's impact at the societal, local, and personal scales, and promote thoughtful digital citizenship. We are committed to sustaining an inclusive environment and making accommodations necessary for students to have a positive learning experience. Additional details follow:Who: The summer camp is designed for rising 8th - 10th graders. Due to lab capacity and instructor support, the summer camp will accept at most 30 students.Registration Deadline: July 18th, 2025Event Dates: July 28th - August 1st, 2025Time:8:30 - 9AM - sign-in9AM - 12noon - morning sessions12pm (noon) - 1PM - lunch1PM - 4PM - afternoon sessions Location: Most of the program will consist of classes and activities in the Information Technology and Engineering Building at the UConn Storrs Campus.Personnel: The summer camp is organized by a group of volunteers: Prof. Jinbo Bi, Prof. Derek Aguiar, and Blake Gaines. Instructors will include the organizers and their UConn undergraduate and graduate students.Pricing: The camp is offered in a pay-what-you-want modality. Practically, this means that you can pay any amount from $0 to $250 total. We do not want financial cost to present a barrier to attendance, so if paying any amount would cause hardship, please do not pay. Any amount of money paid will help make the program sustainable in the long run.Administrative Details: All camp staff will be approved by UConn office of Protection for Minors with training so they are authorized adults to interact with students. A few legal forms (e.g., UConn Liability Waiver, Emergency Contact) will need to be signed by parent(s) or legal guardian(s) of the students. Students need to bring their own lunch or funds to purchase lunch from UConn Student Union. Lunches will be chaperoned.

Art exhibit highlighting creative the creative talent of UConn Health Employees from across the organization.

"Expressions in Multimedia" by Martha G. Trask "Secondary Effects" by Jeff Ostergren Join us for a reception Thursday, May 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Celeste LeWitt Gallery. (north side of the food court)Martha G. Trask is an expressive mixed media artist who happens to work in our library.Jeff Ostergren infuses his paint with actual medications to tell stories about the intertwined histories of pharmaceuticals and color.

Submit Art for Employee/Staff Art Show Attention artists of UConn Health: I am thrilled to announce that YOU will be the next special exhibit in our Connector Gallery between CT Tower and University Tower. Since I joined the team in January 2023, some of you who have shared your talents with me in conversation and I have encountered artwork by several past and present employees within our collection. It is time for another employee art show! Please send up to three (3) sample images of your art to arochester@uchc.edu by end of day Wednesday, July 30. Space is limited, so we will only display up to three (3) works per artist and no more than fifteen (15) at a time depending on size and availability of wall space. All artwork must have wire installed for hanging. All work on paper must be framed to ensure its protection. If selected and your work is not prepared for hanging, it will be turned away because it must be installed using our hanging system. To prevent safety hazards and/or accidental damage in this is high-traffic area, we will not display sculptures that require pedestals. If needed, contact me as soon as possible at arochester@uchc.edu and I can provide guidance on how to prepare your art for gallery display. Art selections will be made by a group of volunteers from our new art committee. Selection will be based primarily on collective themes and aesthetic complement to other submissions. If your work is not selected for this exhibit, please consider submitting again in the future. We will have more displays throughout the year. We look forward to viewing your art and celebrating your artistic talents at UConn Health. Key Dates:Wednesday, July 30: Submissions close at end of day.Friday, Aug. 1: Exhibiting artists will be notified by end of day.Tuesday, Aug. 5 (9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.):- Art drop-off Day 1Thursday, Aug, 7 (9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.): Art drop-off Day 2Tuesday, Aug. 12: Install exhibitThursday, Nov. 6: Deinstall exhibit/art pickup Thank you, Andre Rochester UConn Health Art Curator

The exhibiting artists are Marsha Borden, Helena Chastel, Kathryn Frund, Phoebe Godfrey, Hugh MacDonald, Bob Pavlik, Dan Potter, and R. Douglass Rice. Open Air 2025 is open daily and will remain on view through October 6, 2025. June 19, 2025 iis the last day to visit indoor art exhibitions. Exhibitions inside the AVS Gallery will resume on September 11, 2025

The UConn Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (i.e., UConn Pepper Center), plans to submit an application for competitive renewal to the National Institute on Aging at NIH. At this time, the UConn Pepper Center Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core (PESC) seeks letters of intent (LOIs) for studies to be included in the application. Studies selected for inclusion in the application will be funded contingent upon continued funding of the UConn Pepper Center. We are seeking Letters of Intent (LOIs) for 1-year pilot and exploratory studies that focus on enhancing function and independence in older adults while also advancing knowledge in the UConn Pepper Center theme of Precision Gerontology, and that will support future grant applications. We welcome a variety of research approaches, ranging from biological to clinical/behavioral to health services/community-based research. Projects focusing on cognition and behavior, host defense and immunity, voiding and continence, and mobility and falls are of particular interest. For proposed studies involving human subjects research, secondary data analysis-based projects are encouraged. Projects involving primary data collection are allowed but must be sufficiently feasible to complete within 1 year. LOIs are due by September 10, 2025 Full-time UConn and JAX faculty are eligible to apply for PESC funding. Priority will be given to junior faculty/early-stage investigators as well as established investigators pursuing aging-related research (relevant to Precision Gerontology) as a new area of research. Investigators may request up to $50,000 (direct costs) for a 1-year pilot project. Those interested in submitting an LOI are strongly encouraged to contact the PESC Co-Leaders Dr. Lisa Barry (libarry@uchc.edu) Dr. Blanka Rogina (rogina@uchc.edu) and to visit the UConn Pepper Center website to learn more about the theme of Precision Gerontology and the UConn Pepper Center Research Resource Cores. https://health.uconn.edu/pepper-center/ Those seeking to apply for UConn PESC funding must submit the following by September 10, 2025: 1. A 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) that includes:Brief description of the Specific Aims, Significance, and Approach; Statement as to how the proposed study aligns with the UConn Pepper Center theme of Precision Gerontology; Statement of how the proposed study will utilize applicable UConn Pepper Center Research Resource Cores. 2. On a separate page, a brief budget and timeline 3. NIH Biosketch for Principal Investigator. Please send LOIs to Ms. Laura Masi (masi@uchc.edu) Individuals selected to submit full proposals will be notified by the PESC Co-Leaders.

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/).

Committee: Kristine Nowak, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Major Advisor Jiyoun Suk, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Associate Advisor Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Associate AdvisorAbstract The rise of social media has presented a fundamental shift in the agenda setting process, which refers to the role of traditional news media in selecting key stories and language to shape the information narrative. According to agenda setting theory (McCombs & Shaw, 1972), journalists set the political agenda for a given day by choosing which stories to share and how to share them. But the use of social media has fundamentally changed this process, as an increasingly dominant group of sources like politicians, media personalities, influencers, and celebrities are now afforded the same ability to promote stories as traditional news media sources. These sources, deemed 'political news influencers', are an emerging population to explore given their increasing influence on the state of public discourse. This dissertation argues that the agenda setting process is no longer controlled by traditional news media alone, but instead by multiple, competing agendas shaped by different types of sources. In this work, I compare the agenda setting power of traditional news media sources to political news influencers. Using Meta Content Library and API, I compare Instagram and Facebook posts from traditional news media sources and political news influencers during the 2024 U.S. election to understand differences across both framing and issue selection. Ideological (conservative/liberal) and cross-platform (Instagram/Facebook) differences are also explored. STM topic modeling and lexical analysis are used to explore differences in issues discussed and language used. Findings reveal that the media agenda is no longer unified, but fragmented across platforms, ideologies, and source types.

Committee: Kristine Nowak, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Major Advisor Jiyoun Suk, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Associate Advisor Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Associate AdvisorAbstract The rise of social media has presented a fundamental shift in the agenda setting process, which refers to the role of traditional news media in selecting key stories and language to shape the information narrative. According to agenda setting theory (McCombs & Shaw, 1972), journalists set the political agenda for a given day by choosing which stories to share and how to share them. But the use of social media has fundamentally changed this process, as an increasingly dominant group of sources like politicians, media personalities, influencers, and celebrities are now afforded the same ability to promote stories as traditional news media sources. These sources, deemed 'political news influencers', are an emerging population to explore given their increasing influence on the state of public discourse. This dissertation argues that the agenda setting process is no longer controlled by traditional news media alone, but instead by multiple, competing agendas shaped by different types of sources. In this work, I compare the agenda setting power of traditional news media sources to political news influencers. Using Meta Content Library and API, I compare Instagram and Facebook posts from traditional news media sources and political news influencers during the 2024 U.S. election to understand differences across both framing and issue selection. Ideological (conservative/liberal) and cross-platform (Instagram/Facebook) differences are also explored. STM topic modeling and lexical analysis are used to explore differences in issues discussed and language used. Findings reveal that the media agenda is no longer unified, but fragmented across platforms, ideologies, and source types.

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/).

Dissertation Title: Sensitivity to Cues of Ostracism and Responses to Exclusion - Psychopathy Dimensions Study (SCORE - PDS) Field of Study: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title: Sensitivity to Cues of Ostracism and Responses to Exclusion - Psychopathy Dimensions Study (SCORE - PDS) Field of Study: Clinical Psychology

This event will be in person, but there will also be an online viewing option. Email Jessica Bourget at jessica.bourget@uconn.edu for the zoom link.

This event will be in person, but there will also be an online viewing option. Email Jessica Bourget at jessica.bourget@uconn.edu for the zoom link.

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/).