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CLAS is the largest college at UConn, offering majors in more than 50 fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Its 600 faculty and more than 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students contribute to our understanding of the environment, health and human behavior, and culture and society. More than 75,000 UConn alumni are CLAS graduates. Learn more…

 

CLAS Today

Mystic Aquarium exhibits DNA work
Marine science professor Senjie Lin’s NSF research project on gene expression and red tide has kids at Mystic Aquarium hopping.
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Physicist leads $7M project
A physics faculty member in CLAS is heading a new $7 million, five-year study of ultracold molecules that includes researchers from UConn, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Temple, and the University of Colorado.
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Likens named Einstein professor
Gene E. Likens, distinguished research professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was named an "Einstein professor" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Why so slow? Gender equity expert asks
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Virginia Valian, a distinguished professor at Hunter College and gender equity expert, cited data and offered solutions in speaking about the slow advancement of women in the sciences.
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Building a bridge from China
Maxing, a former graduate student in history who now teaches English at China Foreign Affairs University, sends CLAS a letter from China about how his students view the U.S.
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Coins yield clues
Theoretical biologist Peter Turchin and a colleague from Stanford used hoards of Roman coins to estimate Roman population trends.
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