The Grouch’s Girlfriend
Job Envy The Grouch’s Girlfriend Grouch and Grundgetta have been together a long time. They fear marriage, though — it might make them happy. When Pam Arciero auditioned to be a puppeteer on “Sesame...
View ArticleAll Dolled Up
From the Editor All Dolled Up UConn Magazine’s art director Christa Yung with her Kirsten doll, circa 2000. UConn writer/alum Julie Bartucca with her Samantha doll, circa 2021. The pictures above are...
View ArticleDouble Jeopardy
Checking In With Double Jeopardy "I think most of us who read this book will get better at our jobs and be happier doing them," stated the review in "EMS World" of UConn Health EMS coordinator Peter...
View ArticleThank You
Making Good Thank You In early 2019, the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The public...
View ArticleH20
Making Good H20 When it comes to water, the number of gallons used per capita per day in Israel is 106. In France it’s 297. But in the USA — how about 873? Our neighbors in Canada are also all wet...
View ArticleTruth, Fantasy, and Getting in the Zone
3 Books Truth, Fantasy, and Getting in the Zone UConn’s fire chief, William Perez, likes his books on hard copy and audio. If he’s really enjoying a book, he will buy both versions. That way, the...
View ArticleOur American Girls
Feature Our American Girls What do you do with a history doctorate and a pop culture obsession? If you’re these two alums, you create a hit podcast centering on ’90s nostalgia. ByJulie (Stagis)...
View ArticleFarms = Food = Life
Feature Farms = Food = Life When alum Steven Were Omamo sees someone planting, he sees hope. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee seems to agree. By Kevin Markey Photos from WFP Media “S urprised,...
View ArticleFinally!
Feature Finally! They had waited long enough. UConn’s classes of 2020 and 2021 gathered in person at The Rent for five days in May to celebrate endings and beginnings — together. By Lisa Stiepock...
View ArticleTom’s Trivia
Challenge yourself to Tom’s Trivia! See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS). Scroll to the bottom to reveal the answers. What was the...
View ArticleEngineering to Offer Robotics Major
This Just In Engineering to Offer Robotics Major Next fall, prospective and existing UConn students will be able to declare majors in robotics engineering and UConn will become only the second...
View ArticleCool to be Kind
Making Good Cool to Be Kind Aysha Mahmood’s job is, in short, to make kindness cool, a goal as ambitious as it is straightforward. The idea alone can make people roll their eyes, she says, “especially...
View ArticleUConn in the Media
UConn Talks On religious charter schools: “It’s not a question of if, but when.” Preston Green, education and law professor, The New Republic, Sept. 10, 2021 On Team USA basketball: “We’re going to...
View ArticleWho Is the Public in “Public Opinion”?
Bookshelf Who Is the Public in “Public Opinion”? Former UConn President and current political science professor Susan Herbst’s latest book, “A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion”...
View ArticleA Picture is Worth a Thousand Lectures
Feature A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lectures The man behind those Horsebarn Hill sunrise photos on Instagram is a longtime UConn professor and wildlife biologist. By Jessica McBride ’07 MA, ’17 Ph.D...
View ArticleHuskies Back in the Big East 2021 Bonanza
All Star Huskies Back in the Big East 2021 Bonanza Jonathan the Husky and Jonathan XIV pose for a photo near a marquee announcing UConn's return to the Big East athletic conference outside Madison...
View ArticleMCB-2612: Microbe Hunters
Coveted Class MCB-2612: Microbe Hunters Professors Patricia Rossi and Spencer Nyholm. Life teems unseen in both the soil and the sea, waging an endless, hidden biochemical war. Students who take...
View ArticleAnd Now I Spill the UConn Secrets
Feature Margaret Kimball's “And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir,” has the literary world talking. We asked her to create a graphic map memoir of her time at UConn. Exclusive...
View ArticleNew Swing Tree Garden
This Just In New Swing Tree Garden Lena Hiranthom ’24 (CLAS), left, and Jackson Kermode ’24 (CLAS) at Swan Lake’s new Swing Tree Garden, a tribute to the beloved Mirror Lake Swing Tree which, in...
View ArticleSpeaking the Language
Our Students Speaking the Language Bruce at her Starbucks job in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in June. Trapped at home during quarantine in the spring of 2020, Adrienne Bruce ’22 (CLAS) decided the time...
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