Department: On Campus
The Shape of Copper
Chemistry Ph.D. student Lamya Tabassum’s prize-winning photo of copper sulfide nannoarrays was a happy accident.
Class of 2022
For the first time since 2019, commencement ceremonies took place in UConn’s traditional locations.
Love, Life, and the Miracle Movies of Oscar Guerra
Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Oscar Guerra wants to have a conversation about immigration. Not a policy debate or a campaign rally or, god forbid, a made-for-cable screaming match. But an honest and open talk about what it means to be a working-class Latinx immigrant in America in the 21st century.
The College Tour: UConn
The UConn edition of the popular “The College Tour” series from the producers of “Survivor” will air this summer.
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.
Golden Eggs
Kumar Venkitanarayanan wants to feed the world — with chickens raised without antibiotics. His chance for success increased this August when the USDA awarded his project $10 million.
Light Years Away
Each semester Stephen Stifano asks his COMM 1000 students to encapsulate their UConn experience in a photo worth, well, you know.
Prized
Bryan Stevenson, the civil rights lawyer and author of “Just Mercy,” was on campus to receive the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights.
The Class of 2023
Meet the incoming class.
UConn Mag Meets the Keets
The Keets then and now.
Game of Chairs
This year’s ubiquitous “GOT” conversation gets a nod at the William Benton Museum of Art with a show of 13 chairs by contemporary artists.
Welcome President Katsouleas
Thomas C. Katsouleas, a leading plasma scientist and engineer with deep academic roots in teaching and research will become the 16th president of the University of Connecticut on Aug. 1, 2019
UConn to House Maurice Sendak Archive
Original art from our country’s leading children’s book illustrator will be housed, and available to researchers, at UConn
More Robots, Happier Cows?
Watch UConn’s new robotic milkers in action
Dear Freshmen
Advice from New Grads
Future Entrepreneurs Share Ideas with Philanthropist Peter J. Werth
Peter J. Werth’s $22.5M gift to further innovation and entrepreneurship is the second largest in UConn history.
#OneUConn
On Campus #OneUConn At convocation, freshmen wore shirts with “#oneuconn” on the front and on the back this Nelson Mandela quote: No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can […]
Eclipsed
Community members flooded Horsebarn Hill to watch the solar eclipse on August 21.
Avery Point Lighthouse
On Campus Avery Point Lighthouse In early spring, Penny Vlahos, associate professor of marine sciences, replaces a seasonal cartridge on an air sampling device attached to the Avery Point Lighthouse. The samplers are changed every three months and analyzed for persistent organic and emerging pollutants. UConn Avery Point is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. Peter Morenus