Who is America?
UConn professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Steven G. Smith crosses the country to find out.
ReadThe Seven Wonders of Walden Pond
Please join us in Concord, Massachusetts, for an eye-opening trip around the kettle lake that Henry David Thoreau made famous more than 170 years ago.
ReadGeorge Springer
In his 13th major league season, UConn’s most successful baseball player is still having fun.
ReadLiberating Miss America
To really know America, argues history professor Micki McElya, you need to know Miss America.
ReadWe the People
The way for Smith to better understand what was behind the divisiveness in this country was second nature.
ReadSomething Borrowed
Checking in with Jacob Rochester ’16 (SFA) from his downtown Los Angeles studio.
ReadPopping Off
“Olivia Rodrigo is one of the premier swearers in contemporary popular culture” might not be the type of analysis expected from top poli-sci profs.
ReadA Coach’s Comeback
On Jan. 7, 2025, Ray Marsden ’99 (ED), ’00 MA watched flames engulf the Pacific Palisades neighborhood where he’d worked for 17 years.
ReadOne Way to Use a Psych Ph.D.
As a student, this alum helped shut down UConn’s only primate testing lab. Now she’s training a new generation of animal advocates.
ReadInteresting
Financier Ted Karns believes you can build character exponentially by building upon each of your good choices in the same way investors compound interest to grow wealth.
ReadBusiness is Blooming
Alexandra (Beaudoin) Pilon ’13 (CLAS) and her sister, Monica Beaudoin, are the proud owners of Pratt Street’s Bloom Bake Shop.
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