We are pleased to offer accessible technology workshops as part of an ongoing workshop series. These workshops are intended to enhance the knowledge and skills of University employees and organizations in the use of accessible technology.

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/).

Ralph LewisUConn Marine Sciences1980-2010: The Cooperative CT DEP-UCONN Avery Point Endeavor to Map the Surficial and Sub-bottom Geology of Long Island Sound(With A Lot of Help From Our Friends) Between 1970 and 1980, there was a growing realization that existing knowledge of the Long Island Sound Basin (LIS) was inadequate to support the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) expanding regulatory responsibilities. In 1980, this prompted DEP Commissioner Stanley J. Pac to approached UCONN President John A. DiBiaggio with a proposed cooperative DEP/UCONN Marine Sciences LIS sampling/mapping effort. The cooperative agreement for this initiative was signed by both parties later that year. Under the direction of Dr. Sung Feng, a DEP office was established in Dr. Jack Dowling's Lab on the second floor of the Marine Sciences Institute building. Since that time 45 Cruises variously involving UCONN, The USGS, NOAA, Wesleyan Univ., SUNY Stony Brook, UNH, U.S. Minerals Mgt. Service, EPA, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, URI, Boston Univ., National Undersea Research Center, Smith College, and Vrije University, Amsterdam have been conducted. These data collection efforts have yielded 3,500 km of high-resolution, seismic-reflection profiles, supplemented by subsurface Vibracore data; Sound-wide Side-Scan Sonar coverage supplemented by strategically located side scan sonar mosaics; the collection and analysis of 10,000 bottom grab samples (variously including water samples, biological samples, and sediment chemistry) supplemented by ROV, still and video camera photography and submersible dives; and Multibeam bottom topography surveys in 15 selected areas of active sediment transport. Detailed, Sound-wide mapping of the sub-bottom geologic components of the LIS Basin; the extent and distribution of surficial sediments/bedrock outcrops; and sedimentary environments (erosion, transport, deposition, etc.) has proven useful in many applications. One example relates to gaining a better understanding of the Basin's transition from lacustrine to marine sedimentation. There is clear map evidence that since it became an estuary, about 16,000 years before present, the geologic components of the LIS Basin (bedrock, buried coastal-plain strata, recessional moraines, glacial-lake deposits, and the remains of a large marine delta) have interacted with the water body to greatly influence patterns of erosion, transport, and sedimentation. Since tides developed a total of approximately 22.7 billion m3 of marine sediment has accumulated in LIS. A significant portion (44%) of the fine-grained marine section in the Sound's central and western basins was redistributed there from the eastern Sound, as tidal scour removed an estimated 5.3x1012 kg of the fine material from glacial-lake and early-marine deposits east of the Connecticut River. Most of the remainder of the estimated 1.2 X 1013 kg of fine-grained marine sediment that now resides in the central and western Sound can be accounted for by riverine input.Host: Frank BohlenTime & Date: 11:00 am, Friday, October 17, 2025Place: Lowell Weicker Building, Seminar Room 103 (or Webex)Request Seminar InformationCancellation & Additional Seminar Details (https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1258/)If you are an individual with a disability and need accommodations, please contact 860-405-9152 (tel:+18604059152) or email marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu (mailto:marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu).This is an Honors Event. See tags below for categories. #UHLevent11275

*This training is approved for 2 CECs. There is a $15 recording fee to document your participation.

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

12 Step Recovery Meetings - Two Offerings! 12 Step Recovery is a fellowship of people who come together to build an individualized program of recovery based on the program's 12 Steps of Recovery. This pathway includes a spiritual component, Higher Power, that is unique to each individual, and that may evolve or change completely over time. 12 Step Recovery at UConn is intended to provide exposure and practice with 1) 12 Steps overall with a strong focus on the first three Steps, 2) primary program components, literature, and guiding principles, and 3) building a community of support and fellowship. 12 Step Recovery is an abstinence-based program designed originally to support people living with addiction to substances; however, it has grown to include other types of addictions and problem behaviors. Meetings are facilitated by students for students. UConn Storrs offers a weekly in-person meeting on campus at Cordial Storrs House, as well as a weekly meeting that is online only. IN-PERSON ONLY, Offered at the UConn Recovery Community Wednesdays, 6:00 - 7:00pm Cordial Storrs House, 1332 Storrs Road, Storrs Campus All UConn Students are Welcome - Any campus! ONLINE ONLY Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00pm Microsoft Teams Meeting Link: UConn United in Recovery: Online Meeting Code for SMART Recovery & 12 Step Recovery (https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%253ameeting_YmJjYWQ3ZDEtZDIzNi00OTgxLWIzYjctZjZhYjExNjZkZGY2%2540thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252217f1a87e-2a25-4eaa-b9df-9d439034b080%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522872acbed-4db8-47d3-b670-b33ab35bd157%2522%257d&data=05%7C02%7Cmichelle.tirabassi%40uconn.edu%7Cdef8780f6f324d1905f908ddf2134a01%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638932886847988097%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lfQ4oy7R5I8lUOKTWE73%2FhMDGWnxWuNmhDSL%2F4EMBtY%3D&reserved=0) All UConn Students are Welcome - Any Campus!

Speaker: Shivinder Singh-Bhagania Title: "Modeling the G2-M DNA Damage Cell Cycle Checkpoint in MMR-deficient Stem Cells" Via Webex: https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=mdacf393cf6a2ee5314a3b76525ea5e57 (https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=mdacf393cf6a2ee5314a3b76525ea5e57)

Committee Dr. Kari Adamsons Dr. Beth Russell Dr. Shannon Weaver

Dr. Michael Sattler, Chair, Biomolecular NMR-Spectroscopy, Technical University of Munich Title: "NMR in integrative structural biology – from dynamic protein-RNA interactions to novel therapeutics" Host: Dr. Bernd Simon

The MS in Supply Chain Management (MSSCM) is a STEM-designated, 30-credit program designed to meet the growing demand for supply chain professionals in today's complex, global economy. Offered in a flexible hybrid format, the program allows students to complete their degree in as little as nine months full-time or at their own pace part-time, with online courses and optional in-person sessions in Hartford and Stamford.

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/).

Host: Sohyn ParkLocation: YNG 132Webex:s.uconn.edu/psla_seminars (http://s.uconn.edu/psla_seminars)   The Lowline: Helping Nature Find a Way

Dr. Jacob WinnikoffSchmidt Ocean Institute Harvard University Host: Spencer NyholmStructural adaptation of lipids to support dynamic membrane function and life at extremes Lipid membranes are essential to every cell. Though they are acutely sensitive to temperature, pressure, and aqueous chemistry, membranes have evolved to remain stable, fluid and morphologically dynamic in various, often extreme, environments. The established principle of homeoviscosity describes how organisms adjust lipid chain saturation and length to control lateral mobility (fluidity) of membrane components. Recent work has uncovered a complementary principle, homeocurvature, whereby the headgroup‐to‐tail profile (intrinsic curvature) of lipids adapts to promote elastic stress within membranes. Homeocurvature was first demonstrated as an adaptation to deep-sea pressure and is presented in this context across diverse marine taxa. It also occurs in common yeasts and human cells, implying that control of lipid shape is widespread. Ether lipids such as plasmalogens contribute to both deep-sea and lab-induced pressure responses, motivating a mechanistic investigation of ether lipids' capacity to destabilize bilayers. Experiments and simulations indicate that ether-linked glycerol backbones have a consistent effect on lipid intrinsic curvature and phase behavior and represent a discrete module of phospholipid structure alongside headgroups and radyl chains. Implications of the presented results range from the effects of global change on marine life to dynamic membrane processes such as neurotransmission and related pathologies like Alzheimer's Disease.  Jacob Winnikoff is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Girguis Lab at Harvard University. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Stanford University in 2016 and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UC Santa Cruz in 2022. Jacob's graduate research focused on biochemical adaptation to pressure in deep-sea comb jellies and was advised by Dr. Steven Haddock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). He continues to study the fundamental effects of pressure and temperature on life, now in the context of deep-sea microbes and the habitability of deep, cold waters on moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Join Benton educators for an interactive two-part workshop exploring the exhibitions Encounters with the Collection: Exploring America at 250 (https://benton.uconn.edu/encounters-with-the-collection-exploring-america-at-250/)and Clouds: A Collaboration with Fluid Dynamics (https://benton.uconn.edu/clouds-a-collaboration-with-fluid-dynamics/). We will examine works by artists Martin Johnson Heade and Sebastiao Salgado. After some close looking in the gallery we will head to the education center where we will use contemporary photographs of clouds to cloud sketch. FREE

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 Graciela Quinones-Rodriguez, LCSW (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/graciela-quinones-rodriguez/)

Drop in at the Law Library Lab anytime during this hour to get any and all Bluebook and sourcing questions answered.This session is hosted by Maryanne Daly-Doran.