3 Books with Eva Lefkowitz
Eva Lefkowitz, the new head of the Human Development and Family Studies department shares her top reads.
Category: Humanities & Social Sciences
A Higher Minimum Wage Could Mean a Lower Rate of Child Neglect
Story from UConn Today This Just in A Higher Minimum Wage Could Mean a Lower Rate of Child Neglect Peter Morenus Kerri M. Raissian, an assistant professor of public policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, conducts research focused on child and family policy, with an emphasis on understanding how polices affect fertility, […]
HDFS 3042: Baseball and Society
This human development and family studies professor teaches history by exploring its connections to baseball.
Britney Reynolds ’19 (BUS, CLAS)
A new U.S. citizen, this psychology and business major still has a scholarship in her name in Jamaica.
Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron?
Story from UConn Today The Whole Truth Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron? In a research paper that’s spurring a national conversation, Preston Green III and co-authors outline the many parallels they see between today’s charter school systems and the early days of the subprime mortgage crisis, when aggressive business practices and unchecked […]
“In Russia, you simply couldn’t be a writer if you were Jewish”
Assistant professor and acclaimed novelist Ellen Litman talks about her childhood in Russia and her life in Connecticut.