April and May, once again, is award season, and we are thrilled to celebrate our German Studies students with the following awards issued by the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and by the Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program: Marlis Zeller Cambon Scholarship Fund: Ian McWilliams and Aditya Makarla Excellence in the EUROBIZ program: Grace Oberbannscheidt Excellence […]
Julian Cote-Dorado, who majored in Political Science with German Studies and Economics minors, has been accepted into the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals for the 2025-26 academic year. Here’s an excerpt from the UConn Today story released on June 3rd, 2025: “I love to travel meeting people, and I am very interested in […]
Evelyn Pazan (EUROBIZ) has been awarded a Benjamin Gilman scholarship, and we are proud and honored to share her post from LinkedIn: I am happy to announce that I have been selected as a Gilman Scholar by the U.S. Department of State for my upcoming study abroad program. This is a prestigious scholarship meant to […]
Laila Almotwaly, a dual PhD student in German Studies and Behavioral Neuroscience, has recently joined the NSF-funded TRANSdisciplinary Convergence in Educational Neuroscience Doctoral (TRANSCEND) program focused on transcending the present one-size-fits-all approach and personalizing learning. Her research addresses attention and memory work in real-world listening situations, specifically the brain’s ability to filter distractions and encode information. […]
On April 3rd, 2025, Erica Machulak, PhD, will hold a workshop on “Beyond the Book: Hustles for Humanists.” Dr. Machulak is the Founder of Hikma “to help researchers and entrepreneurs find new ways to engage with partners, collaborators and stakeholders.” The workshop features elements from the new book for hands-on integration with current projects and […]
Congratulations to Prof. Horakova who has recently published three articles, all related to her interests in postwar German literature and visual culture. The first one, which came out in September 2024, appears as a chapter in the volume Postsocialist Memory in Contemporary German Culture, edited by Michel Mallet, Maria Mayr, and Kristin Rebien and published […]
The College of Engineering has launched a new initiative that will benefit particularly students in the EUROTECH program: Engineers Around the World. What is it? We are sharing the programs FAQs right here:Questions (FAQs)What is the Engineers Around the World (EAW) program?Engineers Around the World (EAW) is a program facilitated by the Office of Experiential […]
“How can scholars, creatives, and others working in the humanities better communicate their work to the public? How can humanities communicators–like their science communicator colleagues–benefit from professional training for needed roles in education, the media, cultural and entertainment industries, non-profits, and elsewhere? And what new materials and tools can they invent for telling the humanities’ […]
Please join us on February 19th, 2025 in Susan Herbst Hall 236 for a presentation by PhD candidate Serafima Anontenko.
Following the success of the first “Germany on Campus” Intercultural Symposium and Company Expo, UConn Today features the dual degree students in EUROBIZ and EUROTECH and their great options for careers in local German companies: “Companies Look to UConn to Help Fill Global Workforce Shortage Sarah Worden is the senior director of human resources at […]
On November 14th, 2024, our first Intercultural Symposium and Company Expo successfully initiated sustainable engagement between five interconnected stakeholders: over 150 German companies located in Connecticut, the German Innovation and Research Institute in New York City, three of UConn’s schools (CLAS, ENGR, and BUS), most importantly the dual degree programs EUROBIZ and EUROTECH, and AdvanceCT, […]
“Fostering Interdisciplinary Intercultural Citizenship with Virtual Reality in a World Language Virtual Exchange Project” – that was the title of Prof. Wagner’s presentation at the 22nd Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research conference in Japan. More information about her research is summarized below: Overview of the StudyThe United Nations has issued an urgent call for […]
What’s next in German Studies? Visit the new Study German Studies site and sign up for courses in Spring 2025, register for your dual or double degree and check out what’s going on on our instagram, with our study abroad options and events. Just as Daniel Leaf experienced, you never know what a degree in […]
On October 7 and 9, 2024, a two-day “AI Odyssey” event was hosted jointly by the Hartford Public Library and by UConn colleagues involved in CT-Baden-Württemberg’s HRRC’s Human Rights, Science & Tech Working Group. The aim was to explore the emancipatory potential of AI for students in marginalized communities in an effort to transcend digital […]
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