Eastern Connecticut State University

CREATE (Celebrating Research Excellence and Artistic Talent at Eastern), the premier undergraduate research and art conference at Eastern Connecticut State University, held its inaugural event at the end of the 2014-15 academic year. By providing exemplary students of all majors an on-campus venue to present their research and creative work, CREATE was the culmination of the academic year, as well as the beginning of a new era.

CREATE (Celebrating Research Excellence and Artistic Talent at Eastern), the premier undergraduate research and art conference at Eastern Connecticut State University, held its inaugural event at the end of the 2014–15 academic year. By providing exemplary students of all majors an on-campus venue to present their research and creative work, CREATE was the culmination of the academic year, as well as the beginning of a new era.

Eastern Connecticut State University's 125th Commencement took place at the XL Center in Hartford on May 12. In all, 1,130 undergraduates and 66 graduate students earned their degrees.

A 12-hour website development competition called the "Code-A-Thon" took place at Eastern Connecticut State University this past April. Sponsored by Cigna's Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP), the task was to create a mobile-friendly website to help people select the correct health insurance plan. The competition involved six-person student teams from Eastern and the University of Connecticut; Eastern's Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) club won first place.

Because of their creative and effective use of library resources, three Eastern Connecticut State University students were recognized at the Library Research Awards in May. Usually two awards are given annually, but due to the number and quality of submissions this year, a third student received honorable mention. The awards were established to recognize exemplary student research projects that demonstrate the ability to locate, evaluate and apply information from the physical collections and on

A number of Eastern Connecticut State University students were recently inducted into the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honor society.

A number of Eastern social work majors were recently inducted into Eastern's chapter of Phi Alpha, the national social work honor society.

A number of Eastern Visual Arts majors received awards at the Student Awards and Recognition gathering that was held during the opening reception for the annual Senior Art Exhibition.

Eastern Connecticut State University's chapter of the Psi Chi psychology honor society inducted new members during the Spring 2015 semester.

Eastern Connecticut State University Visual Arts majors recently participated in the annual Senior Art Exhibition held at Akus Gallery.

Eastern Connecticut State University's chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) won third place in a national competition at the 20th Annual AITP National Collegiate Conference in Omaha, NE. For the conference's Database Driven Website Competition, the club's task was to completely replace the website of a selected nonprofit organization with a modernized, database-driven website.

Twenty of Eastern Connecticut State University's highest-achieving students were recognized at the Honors Program Senior Reception on May 9. This year's honors theses--the program's capstone experience--ranged in topics from mathematical and biological studies to documentaries and investigations into the occult.

Eastern Connecticut State University's 125th Commencement took place at the XL Center in Hartford on May 12. In all, 1,130 undergraduates and 70 graduate students earned their degrees.

Graduating senior Richard Magner and his mentor, Mathematics Professor Mizan Khan, presented at the prestigious Posters on the Hill conference in Washington, D.C., on April 22 and 23. Magner's research, titled "Geometric Questions in Number Theory," was one of 50 submissions selected from more than 500 applications. Eastern has a distinguished record of presenters at Posters on the Hill, which has a 10 percent acceptance rate. Of the years where a Connecticut institution was selected to present

Eastern Environmental Earth Science students were recently honored at the Environmental Earth Science Department's annual awards ceremony. Students were recognized for research or academic excellence.

Eastern student was named as the recipient of the History Department's Victoria Leigh Soto Memorial Fund Scholarship for the 2015-16 academic year.

Fourteen student researchers from Eastern Connecticut State University presented in Spokane, WA, this past April at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

Eastern Connecticut State University recently held the annual induction ceremony of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honor society.

A number of Eastern students recently received awards from Eastern Connecticut State University's Biology Department.

Eastern Connecticut State University's Department of Health and Physical Education held its annual honor society induction at the end of the spring semester. This year a number of Eastern HPE students were inducted into Alpha Upsilon Chi, the honor society that recognizes academic excellence and professional involvement in the disciplines of health, physical education, recreation, sport and dance.

Eastern Connecticut State University students recently participated in "Johnsonville," an original, multimedia production.

A number of Eastern Connecticut State University students were recently inducted into Eastern's Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Education Honor Society.

Eastern students were presented with awards at Eastern Connecticut State University's Annual Accounting Banquet.

A number of Eastern Connecticut State University Students were recently inducted into Delta Mu Delta, the National Honor Society for Business Administration, Accounting and Business Information Systems.

Students at Eastern Connecticut State University were inducted into the National Honorary Marketing Society, Alpha Mu Alpha.

A number of Eastern students were recently inducted into Eastern's Eta Omega chapter of the Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society The event recognizes students who major in biology and who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship, research and other academic pursuits.

A number of students were recently inducted into Eastern Connecticut State University's circle of Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society in Leadership.

Outstanding students in the Communication department at Eastern Connecticut State University were recognized at the department's "Celebration of Excellence" event

A number of Eastern Connecticut State University students were recently inducted into Eastern's Tau Nu chapter of the Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society.

Eastern Connecticut State University's Blake Smaldone was named Little East Conference Goalie-of-the-Week in the sport of men's lacrosse for the third time this year.