Feedback – Fall 2024
You really, really loved reading about UConn’s Superfans, plus your comments on Withered Flowers, Net Worth, a More Perfect Union, and more.
You really, really loved reading about UConn’s Superfans, plus your comments on Withered Flowers, Net Worth, a More Perfect Union, and more.
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Do you remember UConn’s social networking site? See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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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Elaine and Carl David and their son and grandson turned their crossword hobby into a book. They made this puzzle just for our readers.
Memories of the Jonathans, Sue Bird, Peter Good, and more, plus a fresh love story from the Class of ’66!
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What was our mascot’s name before Jonathan? See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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.
Follow in the adorable Jonathan XV’s paw prints as the mascot-in-training experiences his UConn milestones.
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Your comments on our summer issue, featuring NCAA championship reactions, which magazine cover you received, and more.
UConn faculty on heatstroke, Canada’s wildfires, drug-discovering AI, and more.
Was Chickennecticut a real thing? See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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?
Your comments on our spring issue, featuring UConn love stories, diverging stances on truth, and more.
Faculty speak on NCAA Championship, donkeys, Teslas, and more.
UConn nursing professor and one of the first African American women to serve in the U.S. Navy.
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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Bonds formed on campus are hard to break. These UConn friendships withstand the test of time.
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See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
There’s something about connecting with your college friends that just makes you feel 18 again.
Readers share their love for UConn Mag, comments on our fall issue, and their missions to uphold the University’s good name.
Faculty speak on religious fervor, algae as the new kale, white Christian nationalism, why they call it weed, and more.
What books are providing inspiration to Fany DeJesús Hannon ’08 MA, Interim Dean of Students and former PRLACC director, lately? Find out here.
Readers share comments on our last issue, thanks to the UConn English Department for their Wordle skills, and still more UConn love stories!
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.
Faculty on Shinzo Abe, the rush of making secret purchases, a future galactic collision, and more.
Irene Soteriou ’23 (CLAS), UConn’s 10th Truman Scholar, wants to stop human rights violations, particularly in the Middle East. She’s starting now.
UConn Nation is everywhere — how many connections have been sparked thanks to someone spotting a UConn T-shirt in an unexpected place? Tell us about yours.
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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.
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.
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.
Who is the “public” in “public education”? Future teachers in this class tease apart that question, using history and current events to examine the inequities in our educational systems and to posit real-world fixes.
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Your letters and posts from the Spring issue — and so many amazing UConn love stories!
Urban Forestry and Arboriculture students don’t have to go far to put theory and science into practice.
The I-84 musings of famed sportswriter Leigh Montville ’65 (CLAS).
University Professor Dr. Cato T. Laurencin was awarded the 106th annual Spingarn Medal, the highest honor of the NAACP.
Chemistry Ph.D. student Lamya Tabassum’s prize-winning photo of copper sulfide nannoarrays was a happy accident.
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.
For the first time since 2019, commencement ceremonies took place in UConn’s traditional locations.
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The 16 alums on our cover know the meaning of true love — and friendship.
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Jonathan the Husky has been the face of UConn since 1935.
The story begins in McConaughy Hall, aka The Jungle, back in 1986. It is still developing.
On teacher shortages, car crashes, better Christmas trees, and smarter turkeys.
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?
The UConn we know today wouldn’t exist without Scott Brohinsky ’76 JD and the Next Generation Connecticut initiative.
Vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship Radenka Maric was appointed interim president on Feb. 1.
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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.
The graphic memoir that’s getting so much attention for Margaret Kimball ’06 (SFA) had its beginnings in her UConn English course “Coming of Age in American Autobiography.”
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.
On climate change, religious charter schools, and tackle football.
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.
Do you you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS)?
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.
As he looks ahead to retirement, UConn Magazine’s former editor Ken Best looks back on some memorable stories and interviews.
You don’t have to be a full-on vegan or vegetarian to enjoy the newest Storrs campus eatery, CrossRoads Café.
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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?
Do you you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS)?
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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Gifted mind, steadfast advocate, and caring friend.
The new Husky Athletic Village and Rizza Performance Center.
On butterflies, Japan, Offshore Wind projects, and more.
Andrew Agwunobi, UConn Health’s CEO, will serve as UConn’s interim president after President Thomas Katsouleas steps down on July 1.
Sage Phillips ’22 (CLAS) is unearthing more of UConn’s origin story.
Here’s what you had to say about our Spring issue.
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Readers react to past issues.
Our professors weigh in on the Capitol riots, vaccines, telescopes, football — real and fantasy, and more.
Timothy Barnett ’86 (CLAS) is helping the incarcerated get their college degrees.
Peggy and Carol Ann met at McMahon Hall in 1965 and shared triumphs and tribulations from that point on.
After nine months of Covid-19 quarantine and endless online meetings, Fumiko Hoeft has webinars on the brain.
A master of multiple fields, Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, holds UConn’s highest academic title: University Professor.
Have you been wanting to try a meditation practice but just haven’t known where to start? Greg Sazima ’90 MD might just be the guru for you.
“They have popped like crazy,” says literature professor Pam Bedore of the apocalyptic and dystopian books that are one of her specialties.
Sommer and her colleagues are using their teaching skills in the war against Covid-19 by bringing virtual arts to students.
“My clients restore my faith in humanity,” says Ellen Messali ’10 JD of her immigration work with New Haven Legal Assistance.
Saving a festival youth program in her hometown of Paraty, Brazil, made Pauline Batista ’16 MA a hero there.
As CEO of the Dollywood Foundation, Dotson has helped legend Dolly Parton realize and expand her vision of improving childhood literacy.
Where some poets turn ever inward, Marilyn (Waniek) Nelson turns outward, and there is compassion in every line she writes.
Peter Goggins ’21 (CAHNR) started his company with a school of goldfish and an aquarium purchased at Petco.
The secret to happiness is revealed in the good works of these very good Huskies.
When it comes to leisure reading, James Kaufman prefers “entertainment over enlightenment.”
Dee Rowe “helped people do the right things in life.”
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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Your feedback on the summer issue included a number of letters on the topic of slavery reparations.