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Who’s Who — Bleed Blue Edition

We’ve all been there. You are sitting around with a group of friends and all they can do is brag about their school. This famous person went there, this great athlete went there, this TV star went there. And on and on . . . and on.

UConn alumni and friends now have a great resource as they issue a retort to those friends, “Oh yeah! Well, guess who went to my school!” There’s a new website at UConn Foundation that brags a little — well maybe more than a little — about some of the outstanding and famous people that have passed through our portals.

Answer Me This

1. You are in New York City and a UConn grad is delivering the news on powerhouse station WNBC. Then you watch another alum moderate ESPN’s “First Take,” filmed at South Street Seaport. Who have you seen?

Answer

David Ushery ’89 (CLAS) and Molly Qerim ’06 (CLAS)

2. Like to curl up with a good read? What UConn graduate wrote such best-sellers as “She’s Come Undone” and “I Know This Much Is True” and which one recently won the Rea Award for the Short Story?

Answer

Wally Lamb ’72 (ED), ’77 MA and Ann Beattie ’70 (CLAS)

3. Which two Husky basketball greats are inductees in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame?

Ray Allen and Rebecca Lobo ’95 (CLAS)

4. Fascinated by outer space? What two UConn alumni have been NASA astronauts?

Answer

Richard Mastracchio ’82 (ENG) and Franklin Chang-Diaz ’73 (ENG), ’90 H.

Who Am I?

Jackie Burns ’02 (SFA)

Answer

Jackie Burns ’02 (SFA)

Broadway actress, starred as Elphaba in “Wicked.”

Kartik Chandran ’99 Ph.D

Kartik Chandran ’99 Ph.D

Kartik Chandran ’99 Ph.D.: MacArthur “Genius Grant” award-winner for groundbreaking work to transform wastewater into valuable resources like fertilizers and energy.

Bobby Moynihan ’99 (SFA)

Answer

Bobby Moynihan ’99 (SFA)

Actor, comedian, impressionist; cast member on “Saturday Night Live.”

Diana Taurasi ’05 (CLAS)

Answer

Diana Taurasi ’05 (CLAS)

Olympic gold medalist, winner of three WNBA championships, inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Discuss

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