The Health Research Program offers a pathway into undergraduate research for students with interests in health and the biomedical sciences. By facilitating connections between UConn Health researchers and UConn undergraduates, this program involves more students in the cutting-edge research at the Farmington campus. The Health Research Program includes a combination of academic year and summer research opportunities, offering undergraduates and their faculty mentors a structure for sustained engagement in research projects, maximizing student learning and preparation for graduate study and/or careers in the health professions.

Information Sessions

For an overview of the program, students are encouraged to attend one of the HRP Information Sessions below:

• Monday, November 13, 4:00-5:00pm, McHugh 110
• Tuesday, December 5, 4:00-5:00pm, online – WebEx link

Event Address: 2006 Hillside Rd, J. Ryan Building, 2nd Floor

Please join us to celebrate Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo’s new book, The Latinization of Indigenous Students: Erasing Identity and Restricting Opportunity at School (Lexington, 2023), on Thursday, December 7th at 4 pm in Gentry 142.

Dr. Campbell-Montalvo is a Visiting Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, where she leads NSF-funded research on broadening participation in STEM.

Based upon research in rural central Florida, The Latinization of Indigenous Students examines how schools perceive and process demographic information, including how those perceptions may erase Indigeneity and impact resource access. Based on multiyear fieldwork, Campbell-Montalvo argues that languages and racial identities of Indigenous Latinx students and families may be re-formed by schools, erasing Indigeneity. However, programs such as the federally funded Migrant Education Program can foster equitable access by encouraging pedagogies that position teachers as cultural insiders or learners. Anchored by pertinent anthropological theories, this work advances our ability to name and explain pedagogical phenomena and their role in rectifying or reproducing colonialism among marginalized and minoritized groups.



The event is sponsored by El Instituto, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, and the Department of Educational Leadership in the Neag School of Education. Dr. Campbell-Montalvo will offer a synopsis of her book, and Dr. Michele Back will lead the audience Q&A. A reception and a free raffle to win two book copies follow. This event is open to the public.

UCHI Fellow Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann (LCL, El Instituto, UConn) will give a talk with a response by Richard Ashby Wilson (Law and Anthropology, UConn.

This event will also be livestreamed.