We are celebrating the EUROTECH program’s 30th anniversary, and we invited our alums to participate by reflecting on the program. Here’s our third portrait of William “Cliff” Birtwell (’11): 1) When you think back on your EUROTECH studies at UConn in 2011, what stands out most for you, in your memory? I remember developing interesting […]
EUROTECH Alum Portrait: Aaditya Vyas, Senior Software Engineer at Pratt & Whitney
We are celebrating the EUROTECH program’s 30th anniversary, and we invited our alums to participate by reflecting on the program. Here’s our second portrait of Aaditya Vyas (’13):
EUROTECH Alum Portrait: Nicole Henry, Postdoc researcher at Imperial College, London
We are celebrating the EUROTECH program’s 30th anniversary, and we invited our alums to participate by reflecting on the program. Here’s our first portrait of Nicole Henry (’16): 1) When you think back on your EUROTECH studies at UConn 2016, what stands out most for you, in your memory? When I think back on the EUROTECH […]
Germany’s Consul General, Dr. Sonja Kreibich, visits UConn
On Tuesday, September 12th, Dr. Sonja Kreibich, the newly appointed Consul General of Germany, visited UConn for the first time. The Boston Consulate’s LinkedIn page reports: UConn is educating the next generation of global citizens through its impressive array of opportunities and exchanges with Germany. Through UConn’s Baden-Württemberg – Connecticut Partnership, EuroTech and EuroBiz, students […]
Prof. Christina Gerhardt to present her book “Sea Change” on October 3rd, 2pm
On October 3rd, 2023, Prof. Christina Gerhardt from the University of Hawai’i will join us to talk about her new book Sea Change: Sea Change weaves together cartography and geography, art, short texts and poetry to share the histories and cultures of islands, centering the voices of islanders, predominantly but not exclusively of Black Caribbean and […]
Joscha Jelitzki (PhD Candidate) receives Austria’s prestigious Franz Werfel Stipend
Exchanging Storrs for Vienna: Joscha Jelitzki will spend the Spring 2024 semester in Austria’s capital to continue his dissertation research supported by a Franz Werfel Stipend: “The Franz Werfel Scholarship is an excellence program of Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalization for the promotion of research and teaching in the field of Austrian literature, scientific […]
Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium receives second Grant to continue through 2026
Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein and Prof. Shareen Hertel (Political Science) won a second grant for the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC). It is a major grant with funding for three years, from July 2023 to June 2026, amounting to over $500,000 combined from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art and support from UConn’s Global […]
EUROTECH 30th Anniversary Celebration starts with Connecting Countries for 30 Years Video
The semester has barely begun, and the 30th-anniversary celebration of the EUROTECH program is already making a splash: here’s the new video, designed and edited by the Engineering College’s Chris Larosa, featuring many of current and just graduated students. Stay tuned for more events!
Prof. Anke Finger and Dr. Julie Shoults (PhD 2015) publish collection on Women in German Expressionism
While the scholarship of German Expressionism has marked German literary studies for most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the focus – remarkably – has stayed with male writers. This new collection, sparked by conversations started in a seminar, focuses on women authors and artists: This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and […]
Undergraduate Awards in German Studies 2023
April and May 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: The Joseph A. Palermo Award for Outstanding Senior Scholars: Daniel Leaf The Marlis Zeller Cambon Scholarship: Josh Ellenberg The Excellence in German […]
Emerson Fenc @ the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation: Internship Portrait
Hello! My name is Emerson and I am currently majoring in History, Human Rights and German. My internship while working here in Germany is for the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation which has a focus on ending child marriage and workplace exploitation. While the internship is remote, one of the interesting elements of my time so […]
Florian White (PhD Candidate) receives LCL Graduate Award for Excellence in Teaching
Every Spring, we are delighted to celebrate our graduate students in the areas of teaching and research, and this Spring 2023, Florian White, a PhD Candidate in German Studies, much deserves this recognition. He has shown outstanding dedication and initiative in his classes and for his students, and he has supported the German Studies community […]
The Tandem Project: An Exchange before the Exchange
Inga Poetzl, who directs the Baden-Württemberg exchange program at UConn, initiated a wonderful exchange-before-the-exhange initiative called “The Tandem Project.” We are reposting from Global Affairs (read the full post here) and from LinkedIn to share the experiences of students about to come to UConn from Germany. What is the Tandem Project? – UConn student perspectiveAt […]
More Internship Reports from EUROTECH and EUROBIZ Students in Germany
We continue to feature short portraits of EUROBIZ and EUROTECH students who are currently in Germany and have successfully secured their internships for the second half of their stay. Our two portraits present Quentin Walliser who is working for Mahle, and Michael Calvert who is working for Siemens Energy. Here’s what they report back: “My name is Quentin, […]
PhD Candidate Isabell Sluka receives Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Isabell Sluka, a PhD candidate in German Studies, has been awarded the Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the UConn Graduate School to pursue her research on “From a Postmigrant Society to Radical Diversity: (Re)Negotiating Germanness in the Digital Realm”: “I am humbled and grateful to have been chosen as a recipient of the Summer Doctoral […]
