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BLSA Chapter at UConn Law Wins National Recognition
The National Black Law Students Association has recognized the UConn School of Law chapter as a National Chapter of the Year
Members of the Black Law Students Association at the UConn School of Law. Top row, from left: chapter President Dorianne Salmon ’21; Bryce Simmons ’23; Geoffrey Young ’22. Middle Row: Mumina Egal ’23; Paola Leiva ’21; Patti Garwood ’22. Bottom row: Seraphin Tala ’23; Shantel Doss ’22; Yvonne Kang ’22.
The Black Law Students Association at the UConn School of Law has been named a National Chapter of the Year for 2021 in recognition of the events and community service its members carried out in a time upended by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A conference explores energy justice, and emerging issue in the transition to renewable energy sources.
Participants in the conference “Energy Justice: Prioritizing Equity in the Greener Grid,” organized by the Center for Energy and Environmental Law at the UConn School of Law on April 16, 2021.
The rapid acceleration of climate change will soon force states to collaborate to combat it, Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told a large virtual audience at a UConn Law conference on April 16, 2021.
“We can no longer just put on our blinders and say we don’t care what’s happening outside of Connecticut,” Dykes said. “The recent winter storms and power grid failures in Texas illustrate that.”
UConn Law Students Help Keep Tabs on COVID-19 Litigation
Getting an in-depth understanding of civil litigation as it unfolds in real time
The project tracks litigation related to the pandemic as it moves through the courts. Copy Link
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a flood of lawsuits by businesses trying to force insurers to cover virus-related losses. Figuring out what that means to the insurance industry and their policyholders requires a massive data collection effort, which is now under way with the help of four UConn Law students.
The students gather information about state and federal court cases, turning lawsuits filed by a podiatry practice in Pennsylvania or a nightclub in California into data for the Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker. Professor Tom Baker at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School conceived and manages the tracker, which is co-sponsored by the Insurance Law Center at the UConn School of Law. His goal is to record the pa
Nichols College names Glenn Sulmasy, Bryant U. provost, next president
DUDLEY – Bryant University administrator Glenn M. Sulmasy will become the next president of Nichols College.
Sulmasy, provost and chief academic officer at Bryant, will assume the post on July 1. He is succeeding current Nichols President Susan West Engelkemeyer, who is retiring.
The Nichols board of trustees selected Sulmasy after a six-month national search, according to the college. The school on Wednesday announced Sulmasy s selection.
“President-elect Sulmasy brings a distinguished record of administrative leadership and academic achievement to Nichols,” John H. Davis, the board chairman, said. “He is uniquely qualified to build on the success Nichols has experienced under President Engelkemeyer’s leadership and drive us further toward a position of greater regional and national prominence.”