For all of the fall 2009 semester, UNESCO Student Ambassadors for human rights have been collecting books for Books for Bugesera, an international book-drive for the first English speaking public library in Rwanda.
At the end of 2008, Rwanda started an initiative to transform from being a Francophone to an Anglophone nation.
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Must there always be a trade-off between economic success and protecting the environment? According to Dr. Steve Polasky, not necessarily.
The Edwin Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment continued Thursday afternoon at the Dodd Research Center with Dr.
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On Thursday afternoon, Alexandra Lehav laid bare the realities of being a lawyer at Guantanamo Bay during a lecture at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Lehav, who is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, has been conducting interviews with former Guantanamo lawyers in order to determine the effects the military tribunals had on them and their careers.
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Though they are separated by years of football history, both UConn and Notre Dame are having strikingly similar seasons. The Huskies' (4-5) five losses have been by a combined 15 points while the Fighting Irish's (6-3) four losses have been by 18.
Both teams will be looking to break losing streaks when the Huskies travel to South Bend, Ind.
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It's one of the greatest venues in all of basketball. Madison Square Garden. The Big Apple. New York, New York.
On Wednesday, Nov. 25, coach Jim Calhoun and the Huskies will take to the Garden as they play Louisiana State University in the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
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On the heels of Tuesday's 25-point victory over No. 13 Texas at the site of the 2010 Final Four, the No. 1-ranked women's basketball team is on the road again Friday to take on Holy Cross at 7 p.m. The game can be seen on CPTV.
The Huskies (2-0) have been dominant in two outings thus far, annihilating Northeastern by 70 points at Gampel Pavilion in the season-opener before rolling past the Longhorns in what was supposed to be an early season test in San Antonio.
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Air Force men's hockey, winners of the past three Atlantic Hockey championships and currently tied for first place in the conference, makes the trip to Storrs this weekend for two games against UConn.
The Huskies enter the weekend series sporting a 2-7-1 overall record (2-4-1 AHA).
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One week from today, the UConn women's hockey team will travel to New Haven for the Nutmeg Classic. Vying for the trophy and local accolades will be UConn, Quinnipiac, Yale and Sacred Heart.
"Quinnipiac has had some very close games with good competition," said head coach Heather Linstad.
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Regular season play has ended for UConn volleyball with an overall record of 13-16 heading into the Big East tournament as the no. 7 seed. Today at 12:30 p.m., they will take on the No. 2 seed Cincinnati Bearcats.
"Everyday at practice this week we have been breaking down the Bearcats so we are prepared to beat them in the first round of the Big East tournament," said senior Chauntay Mickens.
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The ones to watch:
Football at Notre Dame, Saturday, 2:30 p.m., NBC
There are a million reasons to watch this game. First and foremost is the fact that UConn football is playing at one of the most storied programs in the history of college sports. It's a testament to what Randy Edsall has done to see this program playing the Fighting Irish less than a decade after the Huskies became a division program.
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