Welcome to SLAC (Science of Learning & Art of Communication). The National Science Foundation has awarded our interdisciplinary group of UConn researchers a five-year grant, “The science of learning, from neurobiology to real-world application: A problem-based approach.” We aim to develop transformative models for graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, training 50 students (including 25 Ph.D. fellows).The “Science of Learning and Art of Communication,” or SLAC, draws on subfields of cognitive science and neuroscience: genetics, behavioral neuroscience, linguistics, education, psychology, and speech-language-hearing sciences. See more
We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is the territory of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Nipmuc, and Lenape Peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land, and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example. From https://nacp.uconn.edu/land-acknowledgement/
Welcome new SLAC Fellow and Associate Trainees 2022-2023
Hayes Brenner, Renee Chasse, Anne Marie Crinnion, Shawn Cummings, Sarah Gilmore, Kaya LeGrand, Jie Luo, Joselyn Perez, Jennifer Richardson, Naomi Sellers, Kristin Simmers, Susan Tilbury, Gray Thomas, & Tyler Wrenn
Events
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Apr
18
MFA Opening Reception 4:30pm
MFA Opening Reception
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
The William Benton Museum of Art
Celebrate emerging artists in the opening reception of the 2024 Studio Art + Digital Media & Design Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. This annual exhibition highlights new work by graduating students in the Studio Art and Digital Media & Design Master of Fine Arts programs at the University of Connecticut.
Studio Art MFA candidates are Logan Bishop, Jennifer Davies, Kenneth Heyne, Rossie Stearns, and Noah Thompson.
DMD MFA candidates are Daniel Ezzati, Jin Liu, Roya Mohaved, Zahrasadat Sadeghi, Luiza Printes dos Santos, Maria Shurupova, Zahra Zare.
Cash Bar and light Hors D’oeuvres
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Apr
19
Psyche Loui (Joint event by ECOM Speaker Series & CogSci Colloquium) 4:00pm
Psyche Loui (Joint event by ECOM Speaker Series & CogSci Colloquium)
Friday, April 19th, 2024
04:00 PM
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TBA
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Apr
23
End of Year Show 5:00pm
End of Year Show
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
05:00 PM - 07:30 PM
UConn Stamford Building (Stamford)
Digital Media and Design seniors will be showcasing their projects on Tuesday, April 23rd from 5pm - 7pm in the Gen-re! Come stop by and see work from Digital Film/Video Production, Motion Design and Animation, and Web/Interactive Media Design.
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Apr
24
The Power of Story: Creating Empathy and Connection 5:30pm
The Power of Story: Creating Empathy and Connection
Cinque Northern, Emmy-Nominated, Peabody Award-Winning director, writer and editor
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 5:30 PM EST
via YouTube LiveCo-hosted by Associate Professor Clarissa Ceglio and Digital Media and Design Students Sam Snevily and Melina Sandel
As a filmmaker Cinque Northern has witnessed the power of storytelling to shift narratives and create real world change. In this discussion he reflects on his experiences as a filmmaker and his mission to cultivate healthy collaborations and tell stories that help us see ourselves in others.
About the Speaker:
Cinque Northern (he/him) is an Emmy Nominated, Peobody award winning director, writer and editor with over twenty years of experience in documentary filmmaking. He’s passionate about the intersection of storytelling, cinematic artistry and social impact. Cinque’s creative journey began as a visual artist who loved to write. He found filmmaking to be a marriage of the two and has worked on a variety of both documentary and scripted films.
Recently, Cinque directed and edited Angola Do You Hear Us? (Paramount Plus) which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He also co-wrote, field directed, and edited the Emmy-nominated The One and Only Dick Gregory (Showtime) executive produced by Kevin Hart and Lena Waithe. Cinque co-wrote and edited the critically acclaimed My Name is Pauli Murray (AmazonStudios) with Academy Award-nominated directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen and was an editor on Descendant (Netflix). Cinque holds an MFA in filmmaking from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. -
May
1
IBACS End-of-Year Event 11:00am
IBACS End-of-Year Event
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
11:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Rome Ballroom
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Happenings
Check out Betsy McCoach's interview for a recent episode of Science Goes to the Movies (a CUNY TV show). The episode “Gifted Children and Other Superheroes” is at (263) Gifted Children and other Superheroes | Science Goes to the Movies - YouTube
Congratulations to Kelly Mahaffy for receiving the 2022 BIRC Excellence Award.
Congratulations to Fumiko Hoeft, Nicole Landi, Ido Davidesco, Inge-Marie Eigsti and Jim Magnuson on a $3 Mil NSF graduate training grant. See Inside CLAS article here
Congratulations to Fumiko Hoeft, Devin Kearns and Roeland Hancock, for their plan to move to large scale evaluation of their free app for school readiness and dyslexia screening in 4- to 8-yr-olds. Information about the A.P.P.R.I.S.E. project is here.
Congratulations to Noelle Wig, who just had her first authored paper published! Ms. Wig’s publication is entitled “Matching the Mismatch: The interaction between perceptual and conceptual cues in bilinguals’ speech perception”.
Spring 2023 SLAC Courses
Courses in bold are required for current SLAC cohort, other courses are optional.
- LING 5010 or PSYC 5500 Research Seminar in Language and Cognition, Rachel Theodore & William Snyder, Talk-Shop, Mondays 12:20-1:10, Bous A106, 1 credit
- PSYC 5170-002 SICSFLAGS, archive, 1 credit
- PSYC 5170-001, Current Topics in Psychology (SLAC Practicum Seminar)
- Outreach (1 credit) either in the fall or spring - SLAC Outreach Projects - click on this link