Get Personal
Film what you know and embrace the vulnerability, advises an Emmy-winning filmmaker-professor whose students now have Emmys themselves.
Department: Our Students
Withered Flowers
A nursing student with minimal film experience travels 3,000 miles to document an underage pregnancy epidemic.
“That’s My Calling”
Naadu Adjoka-Nartey knows UConn is the right school (times two) and family practice is the right profession.
Mutual Funds
Nidhi Nair wants to share financial literacy with the world — starting with her UConn classmates.
Rage Against the Fashion Machine
The founder of UConn’s student-run clothing Swap Shop would like us all to take a moment to consider what is required to make a single cotton T-shirt.
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.
The Stigma Buster
UConn policy practice Master of Social Work graduate, Amanda Brenner’s work on mental health policy, is an extremely personal mission — she’s hoping her lived experience can give others hope.
Engineering Her Best Self
It’s no surprise that Courtney Luker ’22 (ENG) enjoyed Playmobil when she was a kid. Lots of children do. But not too many mention their devotion to this iconic, people-centric, role-playing, let’s-build-something-fun collection on their college applications. She did.
Speaking the Language
Adrienne Bruce is putting her pastime to the test this semester at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, on a Gilman Scholarship for undergraduate studies abroad from the U.S. State Department.
This Land
Sage Phillips ’22 (CLAS) is unearthing more of UConn’s origin story.
Si Se Puede
This extraordinary class of seniors (and near-seniors) had already weathered a number of major storms before the pandemic hit.
Husky Forward
Batouly Camara ’19 (ED), ’20 MA: “My ultimate purpose is to create spaces for women to dream.”