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.
Category: The University
Your Turn – Spring 2024
Memories of the Jonathans, Sue Bird, Peter Good, and more, plus a fresh love story from the Class of ’66!
Class Notes – Spring 2024
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Tom’s Trivia – Spring 2024
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).
Baby’s Firsts
Follow in the adorable Jonathan XV’s paw prints as the mascot-in-training experiences his UConn milestones.
Class Notes — Fall 2023
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Feedback – Fall 2023
Your comments on our summer issue, featuring NCAA championship reactions, which magazine cover you received, and more.
UConn in the Media – Fall 2023
UConn faculty on heatstroke, Canada’s wildfires, drug-discovering AI, and more.
Tom’s Trivia – Fall 2023
Was Chickennecticut a real thing? See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
UConn in the Media — Summer 2023
Faculty speak on NCAA Championship, donkeys, Teslas, and more.
Helen Turner Watson
UConn nursing professor and one of the first African American women to serve in the U.S. Navy.
Chef Zaddy
Chris Spinosa shares life after “Next Level Chef”, what it’s like cooking for Major League Baseball clients, and some great recipes.
Tom’s Trivia — Summer 2023
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
Class Notes — Summer 2023
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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?
Feedback — Summer 2023
Your comments on our spring issue, featuring UConn love stories, diverging stances on truth, and more.
Tom’s Trivia – Spring 2023
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
Forever Young
There’s something about connecting with your college friends that just makes you feel 18 again.
Your Turn
Readers share their love for UConn Mag, comments on our fall issue, and their missions to uphold the University’s good name.
UConn in the Media – Spring ’23
Faculty speak on religious fervor, algae as the new kale, white Christian nationalism, why they call it weed, and more.
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.
Besties
Bonds formed on campus are hard to break. These UConn friendships withstand the test of time.
Class Notes – Spring 2023
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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!
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.
UConn in the Media
Faculty on Shinzo Abe, the rush of making secret purchases, a future galactic collision, and more.
A Husky and a Cypriot
Irene Soteriou ’23 (CLAS), UConn’s 10th Truman Scholar, wants to stop human rights violations, particularly in the Middle East. She’s starting now.
Huskies in the Wild
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.
Tom’s Trivia – Fall 2022
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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.
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.
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.
EDCI 2100: Power, Privilege, and Public Education
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.
Class Notes – Fall 2022
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UConn Nation Shares its Love Stories
Your letters and posts from the Spring issue — and so many amazing UConn love stories!
Ropes Course
Urban Forestry and Arboriculture students don’t have to go far to put theory and science into practice.
I Wouldn’t Have Listened to Me
The I-84 musings of famed sportswriter Leigh Montville ’65 (CLAS).
Highest NAACP Honor Goes to Laurencin
University Professor Dr. Cato T. Laurencin was awarded the 106th annual Spingarn Medal, the highest honor of the NAACP.
The Shape of Copper
Chemistry Ph.D. student Lamya Tabassum’s prize-winning photo of copper sulfide nannoarrays was a happy accident.
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.
Tom’s Trivia
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia and University Deputy Spokesperson Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
Class Notes
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Next Level
The 16 alums on our cover know the meaning of true love — and friendship.
Spring ‘22 Class Notes
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Dogged
Jonathan the Husky has been the face of UConn since 1935.
An Epic UConn Love Story
The story begins in McConaughy Hall, aka The Jungle, back in 1986. It is still developing.
In the Media
On teacher shortages, car crashes, better Christmas trees, and smarter turkeys.
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?
University Medal to Scott Brohinsky
The UConn we know today wouldn’t exist without Scott Brohinsky ’76 JD and the Next Generation Connecticut initiative.
UConn names Interim President Radenka Maric
Vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship Radenka Maric was appointed interim president on Feb. 1.
Tom’s Trivia – Spring ’22
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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.
And Now I Spill the UConn Secrets
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.”
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.
UConn in the Media
On climate change, religious charter schools, and tackle football.
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.
Tom’s Trivia
Do you you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS)?
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.
The Best
As he looks ahead to retirement, UConn Magazine’s former editor Ken Best looks back on some memorable stories and interviews.
A New Student-Inspired Café at Wilbur Cross
You don’t have to be a full-on vegan or vegetarian to enjoy the newest Storrs campus eatery, CrossRoads Café.
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?
Fall ’21 Class Notes
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Tom’s Trivia
Do you you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS)?
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.
She Fought for What is Right and What is Fair
Gifted mind, steadfast advocate, and caring friend.
Summer ’21 Class Notes
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Husky Home Base
The new Husky Athletic Village and Rizza Performance Center.
UConn In the Media
On butterflies, Japan, Offshore Wind projects, and more.
UConn Health CEO Selected as University’s Interim President
Andrew Agwunobi, UConn Health’s CEO, will serve as UConn’s interim president after President Thomas Katsouleas steps down on July 1.
This Land
Sage Phillips ’22 (CLAS) is unearthing more of UConn’s origin story.
To the Editor – Summer ’21
Here’s what you had to say about our Spring issue.
Spring 2021 Class Notes
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Letters
Readers react to past issues.
In the Media
Our professors weigh in on the Capitol riots, vaccines, telescopes, football — real and fantasy, and more.
Educated
Timothy Barnett ’86 (CLAS) is helping the incarcerated get their college degrees.
Friends for Life
Peggy and Carol Ann met at McMahon Hall in 1965 and shared triumphs and tribulations from that point on.
Helping Kids Decode Their Brains
After nine months of Covid-19 quarantine and endless online meetings, Fumiko Hoeft has webinars on the brain.
Pioneering the New Field of Regenerative Engineering — and Championing Social Justice
A master of multiple fields, Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, holds UConn’s highest academic title: University Professor.
Dispensing Stress Vitamins
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.
Stoking Our Apocalyptic Fantasies
“They have popped like crazy,” says literature professor Pam Bedore of the apocalyptic and dystopian books that are one of her specialties.
Keeping Students Crafty
Sommer and her colleagues are using their teaching skills in the war against Covid-19 by bringing virtual arts to students.
Humanizing Human Rights
“My clients restore my faith in humanity,” says Ellen Messali ’10 JD of her immigration work with New Haven Legal Assistance.
Raising Her Voice to Amplify Other Voices
Saving a festival youth program in her hometown of Paraty, Brazil, made Pauline Batista ’16 MA a hero there.
Helping Dolly Fight Illiteracy
As CEO of the Dollywood Foundation, Dotson has helped legend Dolly Parton realize and expand her vision of improving childhood literacy.
Making the World More Poetic
Where some poets turn ever inward, Marilyn (Waniek) Nelson turns outward, and there is compassion in every line she writes.
Feeding the Fish that Feed Us
Peter Goggins ’21 (CAHNR) started his company with a school of goldfish and an aquarium purchased at Petco.
It’s All Good!
The secret to happiness is revealed in the good works of these very good Huskies.
Murder and Mayhem
When it comes to leisure reading, James Kaufman prefers “entertainment over enlightenment.”
Good People
Dee Rowe “helped people do the right things in life.”
Spring 2021 Tom’s Trivia
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
Class Notes Fall 2020
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Letters
Your feedback on the summer issue included a number of letters on the topic of slavery reparations.
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.
Fall 2020 Tom’s Trivia
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
Coveted Class: American Sign Language
Doreen Simons has one rule: No talking. Ever.
3 Books with Yiming Qian
The finance professor says she likes to read about people and stories related to her field because it puts a face to the things she is teaching in the classroom.
They’re Back!
In August about 5,800 students moved into residence halls at Storrs and Stamford, to blithely juggle Covid-19 testing and quarantining along with online and in-person classes.
Who is the Class of 2024?
Their admissions essays — submitted shortly before “Covid” and “pandemic” became part of our daily lexicon — reveal dreams undaunted.