Enrichment Programs

Join Gilman Certifying advisors Valerie Jenkelunas and Michael Cunningham to learn more about eligibility, the application process, and the additional benefits to receiving this congressionally funded award!

If you are interested in joining us, please register for the info session here.

Join OUR staff and Peer Research Ambassadors for an interactive workshop where we will coach you through the process of identifying and contacting potential research mentors.

Students who have attended a “Getting Started in Undergraduate Research” workshop and who want additional support are encouraged to participate. If possible, please bring a laptop or tablet to follow along with the activities.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this session, please contact the Office of Undergraduate Research at our@uconn.edu at least one week in advance of the workshop.

For more information on the Office of Undergraduate research, go to https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu.

Join Gilman Certifying advisors Valerie Jenkelunas and Michael Cunningham to learn more about eligibility, the application process, and the additional benefits to receiving this congressionally funded award!

If you are interested in joining us, please register here.

Are you interested in a summer research experience but not sure where to start? In this session, we will discuss strategies and resources for identifying opportunities that fit your goals and interests.

Join the online session at https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/workshops/.

For more information about the Office of Undergraduate Research, visit our website: https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/.

Alienation is one of our oldest themes. Writers and artists of every culture have explored its many aspects—from the political and social, to the psychological and spiritual. One important dimension of this is the question of how alienation is experienced in and through our bodies. Tellingly, conditions such as touch starvation have grown in recent years. The human body has also become the focus of an acute contestation—culturally, economically, politically and existentially. For example, our body’s senses, refined over eons to discern healthy foods by their color, texture and taste, have proven to be no match for the genetically engineered products of large food manufacturers. Food companies are relentless in their search to find the magic “bliss point” that will ensure repeated consumption. This raises important questions about our bodies and nutritional agency. Another is this—Can Intelligence Be Separated from the Body? Scholars now argue that the interactive praxis of pushing against and interacting physically with the world is a necessary element of intelligence. This paper argues that it is vital that we retrieve the power and the sources of knowledge that our bodies provide. In short, we need to regain the agency that has been accreted to the virtual world.  

This is an Honors Event. Category: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement.

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Are you interested in research but not sure how to get started? Join us to identify your goals for your participation in research and to develop a strategy for pursuing research opportunities at UConn and beyond.

Join the online session by visiting https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/workshops/

If you require an accommodation to participate in this session, please contact the Office of Undergraduate Research at our@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the workshop.

This symposium will explore how the law of evidence intersects with systems of inequality based on gender, racial, and other marginalized group-based status. It will include sessions aimed at problem-solving, both through reform efforts and transformation in pedagogy. The discussion will highlight the possibilities and solutions brought by a critical approach to law, using evidence law as the focus of study. A live recording of the Excited Utterance podcast hosted by Professor Ed Cheng, Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, will follow lunch. He will be joined by Professor Erin Collins, Professor of Law at Richmond Law School.

Registration is free for students, faculty, staff, and the general public. Attorneys seeking CLE credit will be charged a registration fee of $120. This symposium qualifies for 6 CT CLE credits.

RSVP by January 22 at https://law.uconn.edu/evidence

The tentative schedule is as follows*:

8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 AM Opening Remarks & Dean’s Welcome

9:15 - 10:45 AM Panel 1: Theoretical Frameworks

This panel will discuss the power of evidence rules and how they may reinforce existing knowledge hierarchies or alternatively serve to expand existing perspectives. 

Moderator: 

• Professor Kiel Brennan-Marquez

Panelists:

• Professor Erin Collins
• Professor Bennett Capers
• Professor Julia Simon-Kerr
• Professor Jocelyn Simonson

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Panel 2: Reform Efforts and Implementation

This panel will identify different areas where reform is being attempted or has been accomplished. 

Moderator: 

• Professor Julia Simon-Kerr

Panelists:

• Asees Bhasin
• Professor Andrea Dennis
• Professor Anna Roberts
• Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose
• Professor Maneka Sinha

12:30 - 2:00 PM

Lunch and Excited Utterance Live Recording

Excited Utterance is a podcast focusing on scholarship on evidence law and proof, consisting of interviews of various evidence scholars on their recent or forthcoming scholarship.

Professor Ed Cheng, the host of Excited Utterance and Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School will be joined by Professor Erin Collins, Professor of Law at Richmond Law School.

2:15 - 3:45 PM

Panel 3: Critical Approaches to Pedagogy and Practice

This panel will focus on ways to teach and practice evidence from a critical perspective.

Moderator:

• Taylorann Vibert

Panelists:

• Professor Lauryn Gouldin 
• Professor Jasmine Harris
• Professor Montre Carodine
• Professor Nina Chernoff
• Professor Christine Goodman

3:45 - 4:00 PM Closing Remarks

*Exact times subject to change

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact lawevents@uconn.edu or 860-570-5151 at least one week prior to the event.