Feedback – Summer 2024

You really, really loved reading about the restoration of Cynthia Peterson’s observatory, plus your comments on Marvin Prince, The Iron Horse, and more.

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College Memories

Elaine and Carl David and their son and grandson turned their crossword hobby into a book. They made this puzzle just for our readers.

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Star Power

How a team of employees, students, researchers, an alum, and an elite telescope builder brought an important piece of research equipment — and UConn history — back to life.

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Which Cover Will You Get?

Watch your mailbox. We were so excited to celebrate our 5th men’s basketball national championship win that we created 5 commemorative covers and randomly distributed them to our readers. Want them all?

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Chef Zaddy

Chris Spinosa shares life after “Next Level Chef”, what it’s like cooking for Major League Baseball clients, and some great recipes.

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Forever Young

There’s something about connecting with your college friends that just makes you feel 18 again.

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Your Turn

Readers share their love for UConn Mag, comments on our fall issue, and their missions to uphold the University’s good name.

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Scribbling in the Margins

What books are providing inspiration to Fany DeJesús Hannon ’08 MA, Interim Dean of Students and former PRLACC director, lately? Find out here.

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Besties

Bonds formed on campus are hard to break. These UConn friendships withstand the test of time.

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Your Turn

Readers share comments on our last issue, thanks to the UConn English Department for their Wordle skills, and still more UConn love stories!

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Destination: Dairy Bar

We all wish we could teleport to the Dairy Bar on demand, but a family of Huskies has figured out perhaps the next-coolest mode of travel to get their fix.

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Our 17th President

Radenka Maric, an acclaimed innovator in clean energy technology whose leadership as a vice president helped propel UConn to new heights in research funding, was appointed president by the Board of Trustees on Sept. 28 after a national search.

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The Book Juggler

Management professor Nora Madjar, whose recent research confirmed assumptions that women pay a higher career price for remote-work interruptions than their male counterparts, is trying to find a balance like the rest of us, including in her reading.

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Leo Can Handle It

From behind the wheel of a stretch, Leo Lachut ’89 (CLAS) has seen a lot of things. While abiding by the “limo code,” UConn’s director of Academic Support shares a few favorite stories.


College Bowl

Fame is fickle. But while it lasts, it sure can be fun. That’s one lesson members of UConn’s 1961 and 1970 “GE College Bowl” teams say they learned.


Class of 2022

For the first time since 2019, commencement ceremonies took place in UConn’s traditional locations.

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Tom’s Trivia

See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).

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Your Turn

We want to hear from you — good, bad, just not ugly. Please share thoughts, insights, discrepancies, recollections ­— and how’s your Tom’s Trivia win-loss percentage coming?

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New Swing Tree Garden

Swan Lake’s new Swing Tree Garden is a tribute to the beloved Mirror Lake Swing Tree which, in failing health at age 70, was felled in 2019.

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MCB-2612: Microbe Hunters

Life teems unseen in both the soil and the sea, waging an endless, hidden biochemical war. Students who take Patricia Rossi and Spencer Nyholm’s “Microbe Hunters” class, however, can witness it firsthand.


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 research-intensive university in the U.S. to offer the specific major.

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A Good Boy

Jonathan XIII, the snowy white Siberian Husky who represented UConn as its official mascot for almost six years before going into retirement as mentor and best friend to his successor, died in August at age 14.

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The Best

As he looks ahead to retirement, UConn Magazine’s former editor Ken Best looks back on some memorable stories and interviews.

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Your Turn

We want to hear from you — good, bad, just not ugly. Please share thoughts, insights, discrepancies, recollections — and how’s your Tom’s Trivia win-loss percentage coming?

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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.

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In the Media

Our professors weigh in on the Capitol riots, vaccines, telescopes, football — real and fantasy, and more.

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Educated

Timothy Barnett ’86 (CLAS) is helping the incarcerated get their college degrees.

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Letters

Your feedback on the summer issue included a number of letters on the topic of slavery reparations.

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In the Media

Our professors and president weigh in on everything from the mental health of students to battling systemic racism to why you should breathe through your nose.

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