Students

GIS Major Katherine Patrick receives 2025 UConn SURF Award

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Congratulations to GIS Major Katherine Patrick for receiving a 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award   Katherine will be working with faculty mentor Dr. Dan Wanyama on a project titled:  Proposing Spatially Explicit Land Suitability Models for Orphan Crops to Support Food Security Initiatives in East Africa.

The SURF program is jointly sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Provost’s Office, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Honors Program, donors to the university, and the Deans of the Schools and Colleges.

GSCU Students Attend Top International Climate Conference: A Once-In-A-Lifetime Experience

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14 UConn students, and five faculty and staff, attended the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan in November, 2024. 

The students who attended are from a variety of disciplines, including marketing and urban and community studies, geographic information science, accounting, philosophy, and social responsibility and impact in business.

Learn more about this experience on UConn Today.

UConn Students Compete in Sustainability Challenge

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UConn and Fort Hays State University competed in Werth Innovation for Sustainability Challenge. Two teams of students, one from UConn and one from Fort Hays State University, pitched their sustainability-focused start-up business plans to address food waste in the second Werth Innovation for Sustainability Challenge held on Nov. 2 at UConn. 

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