Academic Programs

The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are three-to-four week programmes for US undergraduate students. Participants can explore the culture, heritage and history of the UK while experiencing higher education at a UK http://university.To be eligible, students must*:

Be a US citizen and possess a US passport
Have had little or no study/travel outside of the US or North America
Have a minimum GPA of 3.7
Be at least 18 years old by the start of the programme
Be able to participate in the programme in its entirety
Have at least two years of undergraduate study remaining after the Institute finishes

The UConn Extension—New Haven County Extension Center located at 305 Skiff Street in North Haven will be the location for this workshop on two different dates at different times: Monday, January 28 from 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm and Wednesday, February 6 from 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. The workshop is free, but pre-registration is REQUIRED. Call 203.407.3161 or write newhaven@uconn.edu. The Financial Health Checkup is sponsored by UConn Extension and the Connecticut Saves Campaign.

UConn Extension offers Bedding Plant Program for Greenhouse Growers

Get the latest information on insect and disease management, proper watering techniques and mixing pesticide formulations and network with fellow growers. This educational program will feature the following topics of interest to those who produce spring ornamental crops in the greenhouse:

· Watering: Air and Water Balance in the Root-Zone
Rosa Raudales, Greenhouse Extension Specialist, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
· Root Rots, Mildews, and Blights
Dr. Yonghao Li, CT Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT
· Update on Managing Insects and Mites
Leanne Pundt, Extension Educator, UConn Extension, Torrington, CT
· Pesticide Formulations
Candace Bartholomew, Pesticide Safety Educator, UConn Extension

For your convenience, this program will be offered in two separate locations.

· January 29th, this program will be offered from 9:30 to 2:30 at the Litchfield County Extension Center at 843 University Drive in Torrington, CT.
· February 14th, this program will be offered from 9:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Tolland County Extension Office at 24 Hyde Avenue in Vernon, CT.

Four Pesticide recertification credits available

Handouts, lunch and beverages will be included in your registration fee of $25.00.

Please make checks payable to the University of Connecticut and send to Litchfield County Extension Center, 843 University Drive, Torrington, CT 06790. No credit card payments accepted.

For more information, contact Leanne Pundt, at 860.626.6855 or email: leanne.pundt@uconn.edu Click here to view program brochure and registration form.

The University of Connecticut is an equal opportunity program provider and employer.

The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin
A. Gilman International Scholarship enables
students to study or intern abroad, providing
them with critical skills to succeed in the 21st
century workforce. The Gilman Program
aims to diversify the kinds of students who
study and intern abroad and the countries and
regions where they go by providing grants of
up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students
of limited financial means to participate in
credit-bearing study abroad or international
internship programs.

Come meet UConn Extension's new Vegetable Educator,
Dr. Shuresh Ghimire! Shuresh will give a brief
introduction and the remaining time will be used to
discuss the needs of Connecticut's vegetable growers.

Snow Date - February 1st

Paleo Body Politics: Re-wilding Health, Ecology, and Diet During the Anthropocene

In an era of environmental anxiety, "re-wilding" has emerged as an ecological health and resiliency strategy across scales, from the human body to the planet. At the scale of the body, this has meant a reevaluation of dietary, consumption, and lifestyle behaviors among concerned consumers seeking to create healthy, resilient bodily ecosystems. Recent health trends such as the controversial Paleo movement call upon an evolutionary perspective for insight as to how to re-wild one's bodily ecosystem in the face of ecological crisis, using the Paleolithic era as a benchmark for dietary and behavioral re-wilding. Drawing upon data from interviews with Paleo and Keto dieters, I investigate how the discourse and practices surrounding the Paleo and Keto diets engage with the shifting landscape of healthcare and nutrition politics, new ecological conceptions of human health and bodies, and a growing understanding of the connection between human and non-human/environmental health in the Anthropocene. I argue that the body's ecology is a new frontier for an ecological ethic of health and sustainability and a microcosm for interrogating the politics that go along with it. Further, I argue that there is an underutilized potential of the body as a (bio)pedagogical site for understanding the dynamics between the body, food, health and ecology.

The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin
A. Gilman International Scholarship enables
students to study or intern abroad, providing
them with critical skills to succeed in the 21st
century workforce. The Gilman Program
aims to diversify the kinds of students who
study and intern abroad and the countries and
regions where they go by providing grants of
up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students
of limited financial means to participate in
credit-bearing study abroad or international
internship programs.

The UConn Extension—New Haven County Extension Center located at 305 Skiff Street in North Haven will be the location for this workshop on two different dates at different times: Monday, January 28 from 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm and Wednesday, February 6 from 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. The workshop is free, but pre-registration is REQUIRED. Call 203.407.3161 or write newhaven@uconn.edu. The Financial Health Checkup is sponsored by UConn Extension and the Connecticut Saves Campaign.

Come meet UConn Extension's new Vegetable Educator, Dr. Shuresh Ghimire! Shuresh will give a brief introduction and the remaining time will be used to
discuss the needs of Connecticut's vegetable growers.

Snow Date - February 14th

Come meet UConn Extension's new Vegetable Educator, Dr. Shuresh Ghimire! Shuresh will give a brief introduction and the remaining time will be used to
discuss the needs of Connecticut's vegetable growers.

Snow Date - February 15th

A new workshop series on pasture management and infrastructure and the nutritional needs of livestock raised on pasture. This workshop is the first in the series. This will cover Improving existing pastures and establishing new pasture. Topics: Pasture plants, soil, existing pasture care, and reseeding new pasture.

A certificate of participation from University of Connecticut Extension will be awarded to each person who completes the three classroom workshops and at least one of the field workshops.

Register for any or all of the workshops at
https://goo.gl/forms/sFIqmM2oxieDkTdg2 or by emailing jean.king@uconn.edu

(Snow Date: February 13, 2019)

UConn Extension offers Bedding Plant Program for Greenhouse Growers

Get the latest information on insect and disease management, proper watering techniques and mixing pesticide formulations and network with fellow growers. This educational program will feature the following topics of interest to those who produce spring ornamental crops in the greenhouse:

· Watering: Air and Water Balance in the Root-Zone
Rosa Raudales, Greenhouse Extension Specialist, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
· Root Rots, Mildews, and Blights
Dr. Yonghao Li, CT Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT
· Update on Managing Insects and Mites
Leanne Pundt, Extension Educator, UConn Extension, Torrington, CT
· Pesticide Formulations
Candace Bartholomew, Pesticide Safety Educator, UConn Extension

For your convenience, this program will be offered in two separate locations.

· January 29th, this program will be offered from 9:30 to 2:30 at the Litchfield County Extension Center at 843 University Drive in Torrington, CT.
· February 14th, this program will be offered from 9:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Tolland County Extension Office at 24 Hyde Avenue in Vernon, CT.

Four Pesticide recertification credits available

Handouts, lunch and beverages will be included in your registration fee of $25.00.

Please make checks payable to the University of Connecticut and send to Litchfield County Extension Center, 843 University Drive, Torrington, CT 06790. No credit card payments accepted.

For more information, contact Leanne Pundt, at 860.626.6855 or email: leanne.pundt@uconn.edu Click here to view program brochure and registration form.

The University of Connecticut is an equal opportunity program provider and employer.