The Neag School of Education will host the 10th annual Northeast Media Literacy Conference, “News Literacy in a Digital Media Age” on Friday, March 16 in the Bishop Center from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. This year’s event will emphasize exploring the importance of news literacy, the impact of new technology, the need to help youth develop critical thinking skills to understand and interpret media, and other important digital media issues effecting schools, communities and youth-oriented organizations.
“The Northeast Media Literacy Conference has been recognized for almost a decade as a …

Rich Miller (Physical Therapy ‘95) is head coach of menʼs cross country and associate head coach of menʼs track and field. He has been part of the Huskiesʼ coaching staff for 16 years, and as a student-athlete was named the 1995 UConn Club Outstanding Scholar-Athlete. He was a co-captain of the track and field teams that won back-to-back New England Indoor Championships. He spoke with UCONN Magazine about coaching menʼs cross country.
What should people know first about cross country?
We race over five miles in the woods and in the fields. …

UConnʼs Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program has achieved national accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education. This is the first review of the DPT program, which has been part of the Neag School of Education since its inception in 2007. The accreditation is good for 10 years.
The accreditation commission said, “The program is meeting its mission, as evidenced by the programʼs high licensure pass rate on the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy licensure exam and the reputation of its graduates as being well-prepared for …

John Greene (MA ’67, Ph.D. ’70), a master’s student at UConn in the 1960s, was also teaching high school math at the time. One day he was walking down a hall on campus, where he saw the sign “Project Essay Grade” and he knocked on the door. Entering that door would change his course of study – and his life forever.
The sign on the door, “Project Essay Grade,” was for a US Office of Education doctoral program at UConn, focusing on behavioral science research. In speaking with the professor in charge, …

The brightly lit room was buzzing. Groups of three or four children, all fourth graders, sat or stood around small tables, trying mightily to create an electromagnetic current that would lift more and more paper clips.  Their teacher, Freddie DeJesus, wandered from table to table, sitting and chatting and making suggestions to help move each group in the right direction.
Le’Lah Arthur loves it.
“This is a really fun place,” says Le’Lah, referring to the sparkling new Renzulli Academy on Cornwall Street in Hartford, the first stand-alone, public school academy for gifted …