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CELEBRATE THE CLASS OF 2020 For Admitted Students Visit At Conn, you'll belong without having to blend in. Be an honorary Camel for a day and see what our community is all about. Apply Goodbye, arbitrary checklists of required classes. Hello, College that encourages you to put the world together in new ways. For more information Everything you learn and do at Conn prepares you for our interconnected world. Stay connected, keep in touch and learn about all things Conn. Connect With Conn Liberal Arts in Action Prepare to be pulled in. Get ready to go places. Anticipate enlightenment. Meet Connections. Connections is Connecticut College's reinvention of liberal arts education—a new kind of curriculum that lets you integrate your interests into a meaningful educational pathway to carry you through college and into a fulfilling, effective career and life. With a major, interdisciplinary study, a relevant internship, a world language, and an interconnected outlook, you’ll connect your education to the world, and make a world of difference . Read about the Conn alums on Forbes 30 Under 30 lists for 2018 and 2019 . Learn About Connections Search Academic Majors and Other Areas of Study Faculty Excellence Recent Awards, Fellowships and Grants Anne Bernhard Blunt Professor of Biology Received $625,413 from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative for research on the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the salt marshes of Louisiana Sunil Bhatia Professor of Human Development American Psychological Association International Humanitarian Award winner, Friends of Shelter Associates founder Blanche Boyd Weller Professor of English Writer-in-Residence, 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, NEA Fiction Fellow fellowship recipient, Lambda Award winner Ana Campos Manzo Associate Professor of Sociology Recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for junior faculty committed to eradicating racial disparities David Dorfman Professor of Dance Founder and artistic director of David Dorfman Dance, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, choreographer of Broadway’s Indecent, Lucille Lortel Award winner, Bessie award winner Jim Downs Professor of History Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellow at Harvard University, Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, regular contributor to major news outlets Luis M. González Professor of Hispanic Studies National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend recipient for a study on the relationship between tragedy and film in Spanish cinema Sandy Grande Professor of Education 2019 Ford Foundation Senior Fellow, director of the Center for Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity, author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought Eileen Kane Associate Professor of History Recipient of a $237,000 New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize winner James Lee Associate Professor of Computer Science Awarded $325,295 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an avatar-based mobile phone application to promote HIV care Jeff Moher Assistant Professor of Psychology Recipient of $357,061 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research on the neuroscience of distraction Ross Morin Associate Professor of Film Studies 2019 winner of the University Film and Video Association’s Senior Faculty Teaching Award, filmmaker, co-founder of Kiltered Productions Tanya Schneider Associate Professor of Chemistry Awarded $326,801 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for antibiotic resistance research Derek Turner Professor of Philosophy Recipient of two Fulbright fellowships, including a 2017 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at the University of Calgary, Canada Faculty Profiles Debo Adegbile ’91 Partner, WilmerHale; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission; formerly counsel to the NAACP legal defense and education fund and to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Ipek Bakir ’12 Researcher and product development specialist, Overdeck Family Foundation Innovative Schools; consultant; 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 list Anita Defrantz ’74 Olympic Medalist, USRowing 1976 Summer Olympic Games-Montreal; former VP, International Olympic Committee David Grann ’89 Award-winning journalist; bestselling author, "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon;” The New Yorker staff writer Success and Outcomes Notable Alumni Debo Adegbile ’91 Partner, WilmerHale; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission; formerly counsel to the NAACP legal defense and educ...