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All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Pre-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), even if unpaid and required for your class or program. If you are considering a future off-campus work opportunity or placement, you are required to attend this workshop before you apply for CPT or Pre-Completion OPT with ISSS.

"The Round Table" for Graduate Students Our Mandarin-speaking Group is a confidential, supportive space for graduate students who seek a compassionate, non-judgmental environment to explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in Mandarin. Through open and mindful conversation, we'll navigate the challenges you may be facing, including academic stress, cultural adjustments, familial pressure, race/ethnicity-related stress, language barriers, and relationship dynamics. This group offers a unique opportunity for self-discovery, emotional healing, and personal growth, as we create a space where you can feel heard, supported, and understood.To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4700 (tel:+18604864705) This session is held by Michelle Chen, 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.

Yoga skillfully blends movement and breathwork, with a meditative focus for a full body practice that calms, nurtures, strengthens and opens one into flexibility of body and mind. 50 minutes of beginner-friendly yoga followed by a wellness and community discussion! DROP-IN (no appointment required)

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

The 28th Annual NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS is packed with an inspiring keynote lecture, exciting short-format research talks, and poster presentations. All events are open to interested undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, staff and faculty from across UConn departments and schools. This year's Keynote Speaker is Dr. Nima Mesgarani, PhD, Associate Professor at the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, and Behavior Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Mesgarani is an internationally recognized scholar and leader in neural engineering and auditory neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the study of neural circuits underlying speech processing and made several key contributions to the development of AI models for automatic speech processing and brain computer interfaces for speech recognition. For information, please visit: https://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/

The 28th Annual NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS is packed with an inspiring keynote lecture, exciting short-format research talks, and poster presentations. All events are open to interested undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, staff and faculty from across UConn departments and schools. This year's Keynote Speaker is Dr. Nima Mesgarani, PhD, Associate Professor at the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, and Behavior Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Mesgarani is an internationally recognized scholar and leader in neural engineering and auditory neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the study of neural circuits underlying speech processing and made several key contributions to the development of AI models for automatic speech processing and brain computer interfaces for speech recognition. For information, please visit: https://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/

The 28th Annual NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS is packed with an inspiring keynote lecture, exciting short-format research talks, and poster presentations. All events are open to interested undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, staff and faculty from across UConn departments and schools. This year's Keynote Speaker is Dr. Nima Mesgarani, PhD, Associate Professor at the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, and Behavior Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Mesgarani is an internationally recognized scholar and leader in neural engineering and auditory neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the study of neural circuits underlying speech processing and made several key contributions to the development of AI models for automatic speech processing and brain computer interfaces for speech recognition. For information, please visit: https://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/

The 28th Annual NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS is packed with an inspiring keynote lecture, exciting short-format research talks, and poster presentations. All events are open to interested undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, staff and faculty from across UConn departments and schools. This year's Keynote Speaker is Dr. Nima Mesgarani, PhD, Associate Professor at the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, and Behavior Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Mesgarani is an internationally recognized scholar and leader in neural engineering and auditory neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the study of neural circuits underlying speech processing and made several key contributions to the development of AI models for automatic speech processing and brain computer interfaces for speech recognition. For information, please visit: https://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/

Roohi Choudhry's Debut Novel Outside Women: A Reading and Q&A When: 3:30-4:45 PM on Thurs. Nov. 6 In person: Room 109 at UConn Stamford, 1 University Pl. Stamford, CT 06901 Online: https://s.uconn.edu/engl2701 Join English 2701: Creative Writing I for a celebration of Roohi Choudhry's incandescent debut novel Outside Women, a sweeping, century-spanning story of feminist resistance, radical kinship, and migrant solidarity. Set in South Africa, Pakistan, and New York City, Outside Women weaves together the lives of Sita, an indentured laborer in 1890s Durban, and Hajra, a Pakistani scholar in exile a century later, each forced to reckon with the cost of fighting for a stranger. Lyrical, gripping, and deeply tender, Outside Women is "riveting… an incisive story of how change happens" (Publishers Weekly) and a radiant exploration of what it means to risk everything for liberation. Highlighted in Ms. Magazine's "The Most Anticipated Feminist Book in 2025" "Outside Women is a gripping historical novel that contrasts the abuses of patriarchy and misogyny with the power of women to stand for freedom, truth, and justice." ~Foreword Reviews "Outside Women is a powerful and beautifully braided novel of personal and political history. Choudhry traverses continents and centuries with conviction and subtlety in this striking debut." ~Peter Ho Davies, author of The Fortunes and The Welsh Girl Roohi Choudhry was born in Pakistan and grew up in southern Africa. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Hedgebrook and Djerassi. She worked as a researcher in criminal justice reform and public health, wrote for the United Nations, and facilitates creative writing workshops for interfaith groups, schools, libraries, and community organizations. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Callaloo, Longreads, and the Kenyon Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find out more at roohichoudhry.com. This is an Honors Event. For accessibility requests, please email Professor Gӧrkemli at serkan.gorkemli@uconn.edu (mailto:serkan.gorkemli@uconn.edu). Sponsored by UConn English & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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/).

BLOOM: Undergraduate Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) This group is a space created for female Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) - identifying students to cultivate vulnerability, safety, trust, connection, and growth. Bloom provides a place for group members to discuss issues unique to their experience at a predominantly white institution (PWI), including academic stress, relationships, race/ethnicity related stress, familial pressures and navigating cultural expectations. There will be an emphasis on healing, maintaining healthy relationships and setting boundaries. Bloom means to be open, blossom and to maintain flourishing conditions that help us grow. It's time to Bloom. To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4700 (tel:+18604864705) This session is held by Natasha Welz, DSW, LCSW (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/natasha-welz/) 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.

Wellness Warriors: Shifting Perspectives on Addictive Behaviors" Wellness Warriors is a confidential, judgement-free therapy group aimed at supporting students who feel like they've lost their way in their relationship with alcohol and/or other substances and struggling with other mental health/ addictive challenges. Whether you want to figure out where you stand, cut back, or quit completely, we are here to help. This group is about giving you the info, tools, and support you need to achieve the change you want to make, through education, skills building, and peer support.To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4700 (tel:+18604864705) This session is held by Cassaundra Popek, LMFT (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/cassaundra-popek-lmft/) 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.

Jeffrey W. Stempel, Doris S. & Theodore B. Lee Professor of Law, University of Nevada William S. Boyd School of Law Although the Latin word pertinacia can have the positive meanings of perseverance, firmness, and constancy, it also has negative meanings of obstinacy, defiance, and stiffness. In the realm of insurance policy construction, pertinacia manifests in the refusal of insurers (both individual carriers and the industry as a whole) to define terms (or improve the existing definitions of terms) that have proven problematic as reflected by a significant history of disputes over the meaning of the undefined or poorly defined term. Examples are the commonly litigated issues of what comprises an "accident" or "physical" injury, "loss"/"loss of use", "damage", and "professional services." Where insurers have persisted in failing to define a term or correct a recurringly problematic definition, a party in dispute with the insurer regarding the meaning of the term should benefit from a contra pertinacia canon of construction that creates a rebuttable presumption in favor of an interpretation favoring coverage. Although the contra pertinacia canon cannot create coverage in the face of clearly contrary policy language supported bycontextual/extrinsic evidence, properly applied it would enhance the well-established contra proferentem canon so that in practice an insurer that persists in failing to clarify coverage cannot engage in opportunistic efforts to deploy its repeat player status to exploit undefined terms to the detriment of policyholders.

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to): 1.Explain the principles that underlie the decision-making regarding flap reconstruction 2.Develop familiarity with skin grafts – types, uses, when to use each type 3.Discuss the geometry of several types of commonly used local flaps (including rhomboid and bilobed flaps) The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of _ 1.0 ___ AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

The South Asian Law Students Association is celebrating Diwali and providing delicious South Asian food, music, and crafts.