Provost Lejuez, Eight Other Faculty Named As Inductees to CASE
Those elected to CASE were lauded for significant contributions made to their respective fields.
The nine scholars will be formally inducted into the Academy during a ceremony in May. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo) Copy Link
Nine University of Connecticut faculty were announced as inductees into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) for 2021, including UConn Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Carl Lejuez.
CASE, which was chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1976, provides expert guidance to the state of Connecticut and promotes the application of science and technology towards issues of economic well-being and human welfare.
UConn Magazine: Inspiring Students to Save the Planet
“Sustainability is arguably the biggest challenge we face in the 21st century,” says Michael Willig.
Mike Willig, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and director of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering. (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo) Copy Link
“Sustainability is arguably the biggest challenge we face in the 21st century,” says Michael Willig. It’s not just about sustainability, though. “Probably the most important questions we have to answer are not if a system is sustainable, but if it is desirable,” says the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. “We have many paths we can take in our stewardship, but science doesn’t tell us which of those paths to take per se it’s human values that guide us. I don’t think that each of us fully understands how we might marshal those perspectives and ways of
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Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare Highlight Virtual CRT Spring Season
Student actors will interpret the work of the famous playwrights in the new and challenging medium of Zoom theater.
Works by the American playwright Tennessee Williams are among the productions being staged during the Connecticut Repertory Theatre s Spring 2021 season (Photo by Derek Hudson/Getty Images). Copy Link
The Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s 2021 virtual spring season will feature three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America’s foremost 20th century playwrights, and two productions by William Shakespeare.
Williams’ “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen,” which premiered in Westport in 1958, opens the season with a run from Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21, followed by “This Property is Condemned” from March 18-21, with “And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens” from April 22-25. Dexter Singleton, visiting assistant professor of perf
Are You Entertained? was edited by Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson.
Blackness occupies a central place in mainstream American pop culture. The creation, distribution and consumption of Black culture is at never-before-seen levels in today s digital consumer economy.
A recently published anthology addresses the history, evolution and trends of Black media and culture in the 21st century, and how race and politics played and continue to play a pivotal role.
When and how did Black culture cross over to the mainstream? How has it been appropriated and exploited, and what are the implications?
How was Blackness been performed and politicized throughout the 21st-century, and how has that changed since the advent of the Internet and social media?