On the Money

Janet Yellen and Lynn Malerba ’08 MPA make history as the first female Treasury Secretary and first Indigenous U.S. Treasurer with their signatures on the currency.

Categories: Community Impact


It’s Cool

Only a cool mom could get her son a FaceTime with comedian Joe Gatto.

Categories: Business


Forever Young

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

Categories: The University


The Best

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

Categories: The University


Inspiration

He helps them improve their interviewing, reporting, writing, and photography skills. In turn, says professor Scott Wallace, his students remind him how much the profession of journalism matters.

Categories: Arts


Just Listen

When we started working on this issue, magazine production was business as usual, and the world felt somewhat normal. Of course, it wasn’t.

Categories: The University


Remember Jerry & Amy

The road to the UConn Dairy Bar is the perfect place for a tribute to Jerry Yang and Amy, the first cloned farm animal in the U.S.

Categories: Science


Local Heroes

Peter Morenus is the magazine’s photographer. But that job title doesn’t even begin to cover his secret-weapon status here. He seems to know everyone on campus, and can tell us exactly where anything is and what it will look like before we get there.

Categories: Community Impact


From the Editor

Confession: I enjoy watching many sports and playing far fewer, but I must admit to some unattractive internal smirking whenever members of my cheering section start high-fiving and chest-bumping and yelling, “We did it!”

Categories: Athletics