I’m With the Band
Hundreds of UConn Marching Band alums converged on the fall 2022 Homecoming weekend to give David L. Mills, longtime director, a proper send-off.
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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.
University Medal to Scott Brohinsky
The UConn we know today wouldn’t exist without Scott Brohinsky ’76 JD and the Next Generation Connecticut initiative.
Be Our Guest
Kate Copeland ’15 (MBA), UConn’s assistant director of University Events and Conference Services, was named 2021 Member of the Year by Meeting Professionals International (MPI).
We Are but Players
A lot has happened since Geoffrey Sheehan ’84 (SFA) and Laura Sheehan ’85 (SFA) put on “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” with a $300 budget in Hartford’s Bushnell Park.
Recent Nursing Alum Secures Patent
Ellen Quintana ’21 (NUR) just got a non-provisional patent for technology that reduces the disposable gloves that come out each time you try to pull one from the box.
Bueckers Buzz
What previous WBB greats have to say about Husky phenom Paige Bueckers.
The Activist Athlete
Stewie is an SI Sportsperson of the Year!
Tom Penders ’67 (BUS)
The latest award for a Coach Penders is Hall of Fame level.
Cardona Tapped as U.S. Education Secretary
Multiple Neag School degree holder Miguel Cardona is the second UConn alum to hold a Cabinet-level position in the White House.
Jess Kelly ’08 (CLAS)
She wants women to run.
Wanjiku (Wawa) Gatheru ’20 (CAHNR)
For the first time, a UConn student is named both a Truman and a Udall scholar.
Melissa McCaw Is New State Budget Chief
Melissa McCaw ’14 MPA is one of the many alums that Governor Ned Lamont is tapping for top jobs in his administration
Top Cop
David Rosado ’93 (CLAS) ’07 JD is Hartford’s First Latino Police Chief
Welcome Back Jamelle Elliot
The former player and coach is back at UConn Athletics
Hail to the Chief
Richard Robinson ’79 (CLAS) is the Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice
Drew Cole ’14 (CLAS)
UConn Alum rocks “The Voice”
Karl L. Schultz ’92 MPA
The new Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard
Thanks for Four Years of Awesome!
Goodbye Kia and Gabby
1,000 For Geno and C.D.
Can you name each of these WBB players past and present who celebrated with Geno and Chris ’99 M.Ed at Mohegan Sun Dec. 19?
Rowe Gets Top Hall of Fame Honor
UConn basketball legend Dee Rowe awarded the most prestigious award by the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Rebecca Lobo
Kudos Former women’s basketball star and current ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo ’95 (CLAS) talks with ESPN’s Jay Bilas about being named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The first UConn player to win the honor, she joins UConn coaches Geno Auriemma and Jim Calhoun. Lobo helped bring UConn its first national championship during the undefeated 1994-95 season.
Micki McElya a Pulitzer Finalist
Kudos Micki McElya a Pulitzer Finalist Associate History Professor Micki McElya’s book, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery (Harvard University Press), was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction. In its citation, the Pulitzer Prize committee called her work “a luminous investigation of how policies and practices at Arlington National Cemetery have mirrored the nation’s fierce battles over race, politics, honor, and loyalty.” In the book’s introduction McElya writes, “Approaching Arlington National Cemetery as a site that is inclusive of all the nation’s stories, the wonderful, the messy, and the terrible, the awe-inspiring and shameful, […]