Register Now for the 2018 Special Education Summit

Join us this April at UConn’s picturesque School of Law campus in Hartford for the second annual Special Education in Connecticut Summit — a daylong summit geared toward developing effective school environments that support the needs of all students with disabilities.

Co-sponsored by the Klebanoff Institute and the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, the event will bring together professionals in special education; advocates of persons with disabilities; school administrators; policymakers; family and community members; and other experts from across the region.

Registration link below:
https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2152493

We will be meeting on Tuesday, April 24, at 11am in Manchester Hall 227, for a talk by Woojin Chung (NYU Linguistics) on "Obligation as counterfactual reasoning".

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

Follow the link below for details and contact information.

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Cochlear Synaptopathy in Noise-Induced and Age-Related Hearing Loss"

Sharon Kujawa, Ph.D., Director of Audiology at Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary,
Associate Professor Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, MA

Related Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adding+Insult+to+Injury%3A+Cochlear+Nerve+Degeneration+after+%E2%80%9CTemporary%E2%80%9D+Noise-Induced+Hearing+Loss


Host: Dr. Leslie Bernstein, lbernstein@uchc.edu

Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students...

Join us for pizza, wings, samosas, falafel, and drinks. Please bring something to share!

Research in Progress (RIP)

"The role of TIMP-1 in the development of hypersensitivity using a model of cutaneous inflammation"


Brittany Knight
Graduate Assistant
Baumbauer Lab

Please join the Beyond the Field: Social Issues in Sport Series on April 25th at 6pm for our final event of the year. We will be hosting several women leaders for a panel discussion titled - "Breaking Glass: How Women Fearlessly Navigate the Sport Industry". Our guests will be Beth Goetz, Chief Operating Officer and SWA at the University of Connecticut; Mary Ellen Gillespie, Director of Athletics at the University of Hartford; and Alaina DiGiorgio, Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Elms College.