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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]