Graduate Student Success Stories: Graduate Student Intern of the Year 2018

Name: Tuo Gao

Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
B.Ch.E. – Chemical Engineering
B.S. – Chemistry

Graduate Institution: University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
Ph.D. Candidate – Chemical Engineering

Describe your research interests:
My research project topic …

By Tithi Basu Mallik
Tithi Basu Mallik Graduate Student Career Programs and Services Graduate Assistant
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Svetlana Gelpi-Dominguez: Graduate Student Success Story

Undergraduate Institution: B.A., Universidad del Turabo (2015)

Graduation Institution: Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry, UConn

How did you choose your particular internship?

“In January 2016, I went to a High Performance Computing conference (HPC) looking for possible non-academic work opportunities for …

By Sydney Carr
Sydney Carr
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Student Success Story: Jennifer Dealy

Name: Jennifer Dealy

Undergraduate Institution:

B.A.-Psychology (Assumption College, Worcester, MA)

Graduate Institution:

M.A.- HDFS (UConn)

Ph.D. Candidate – HDFS (UConn)

How did you choose your particular internship?

“I have always been interested in translating my research interests in promoting secure …

By Reid McLendon
Reid McLendon Web Development Specialist
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Student Success Story: Hyeseong Kang

Name: Hyeseong Kang

Undergraduate Institution:

B.A.- Sociology/Psychology (Double Major) (Korea University)

Graduate Institution:

M.A.- Clinical and Counseling Psychology (Korea University)

Ph.D. Candidate- Human Development and Family Studies (UConn)                  

How did you choose your particular internship?

“I worked as a therapist-intern …

By Reid McLendon
Reid McLendon Web Development Specialist
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Carter Lennon Graduate Student Success Story

Name: Carter Lennon
Doctoral Degree: University of Connecticut, Social Psychology (2013)
Master’s Degree: Central Connecticut State University, Health Psychology (2009)
Bachelor’s Degree: Eastern Connecticut State University, General Psychology (2007)

Background Information: Carter Lennon is currently the Internal Operations Manager for …

By Sydney Carr
Sydney Carr
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2017 National HWW PreDoctoral Fellow

Winifred Maloney Awarded Summer 2017 Fellowship from Humanities Without Walls at Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities


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Humanities Without Walls aims to create new avenues for collaborative research, teaching, and the production of scholarship in the humanities, forging and …

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Marc Reyes: Student Success Story

Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri

 Education: University of Connecticut: Ph.D. Candidate, History
University of Missouri, Kansas City: Master of Arts, History University of Missouri, Columbia: Bachelor of Arts, History

 Interest: Marc loves live music and enjoys traveling across the country to …

By Briana Williams
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Graduate Student Success Story: Kristina Bosco

Current Job – Medical Social Worker

Education – Bachelors: Central Connecticut State University, Psychology | Masters: University of Connecticut, MSW Social Work

Hometown – West Hartford, CT

Interests – “I love to travel and my favorite place that I have visited …

By Briana Williams
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Student Success Story: Anthony Patelunas

Tell me about your educational path.

I started my undergraduate career as a Marine Biology major at Stockton College in New Jersey, then transferred to Stony Brook University as a Marine Vertebrate Biology major. While there, I found an opportunity …

By Ellen Morelli
Ellen Morelli Career Intern
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Student Success Story: Samantha Podurgiel

 

Samantha Podurgiel, PhD Student

Tell me about your educational path.

I entered UConn in 2006 as a psychology major. Spring semester of my sophomore year, I took a physiological psychology course and knew I wanted to focus on the …

By Ellen Morelli
Ellen Morelli Career Intern
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