Talk

Wanjiku (Wawa) is a prominent activist on campus who is also a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, and UConn’s first Rhodes scholar. She is the co-founder of UCAFE, UConn Access to Food Effort, an IDEA grant that i...

Jacob is currently a journalist and serves on the Executive Board for STEMTalk magazine. It is the only student-run STEM-based magazine on UConn campus. He is a computer science major and has published numerou...

Akash is involved in LINKS (Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Knowledge-perception Systems), an engineering lab on UConn campus with military applications. He directly works in software development for pa...

Ajitha launched a low-cost CPR training program at Danbury Hospital over the summer. CPR was taught to the families of patients identified as high risk (low cardiac output, previous MIs, ST-elevation). An inst...

Serena leads a nutritional intervention that investigates the effect of the nutrient choline on blood health markers (triglycerides, HDL/LDL cholesterol, glucose, inflammatory markers). Egg intervention in hea...

IDEA grant recipient Danielle Cross shares her research on the effects of representation in film on White American’s views towards African Americans. Her study specifically introduces counter-stereotypical Afr...

Thomas Shao discusses his Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) grant project: studying the observational behavior of mice in Dr. Etan Markus's psychology lab. He also reviews his application process for S...