Accolades: Nels Highberg, Laura Pence

Nels P. Highberg, assistant professor of rhetoric, language, and culture in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently invited by the Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine to co-facilitate a series of ethics discussions for a group of second-year medical and dental students.

Meeting weekly throughout September and early October, these groups covered such topics as informed consent, decision making, resource allocation, and end-of-life issues. Highberg has already brought this work back to his classes at Hartford, bringing in similar topics and readings for students in his honors seminar on virus narratives.


Laura Pence, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently gave an invited talk at the University of Connecticut as part of the Department of Chemistry's Symposium Series. Her talk, titled "Information Literacy in the Chemistry Curriculum," was a feature of the Chemical Education offerings at UConn.