Who is the Class of 2024?
Their admissions essays — submitted shortly before “Covid” and “pandemic” became part of our daily lexicon — reveal dreams undaunted.
ReadFor Scott Wallace, Remote Learning Means Getting off the Beaten Path
The photographer and National Geographic contributor shares with us some of the hard-won wisdom he imparts to UConn’s lucky journalism students.
ReadIn the Driver’s Seat
What’s keeping us out of self-driving cars? Hint: The answer has nothing to do with technology.
ReadInspiration
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.
ReadGolden 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.
ReadThey'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.
ReadArt Alfresco
Avery Point’s Open Air by Night exhibits drew film and video submissions from artists not just in Connecticut, but around the world.
ReadIn 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.
Read#BlackintheIvory: A Viral Reckoning
How communications professor Shardé Davis’ tweets turned into a movement for Black people in academia.
ReadTake Them Down
History professor Manisha Sinha, an Indian American who is one of the world’s leading experts on the Civil War and slavery in the U.S., on removing Confederate statues.
Read3 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.
ReadCoffee and Cubanos
Breno Donatti ’14 (BGS) found a way to feed his neighbors and boost his restaurant business.
ReadPlaying Through
“You can’t plan for years like 2020,” says Meghan Hall ’08 (CLAS), the Lego Group’s senior director of digital marketing in the Americas.
ReadLet Freedom Ring
Lesedi Graveline ’17 (CLAS) says it was her UConn education that fostered her affinity for social justice.
ReadCliff Robinson
Phil Chardis shares memories of former UConn basketball star Cliff Robinson who died in August at age 53.
ReadHer Fight Against Human Trafficking
Mary-Ellen Barrett ’88 JD says her whole career has led her to this battle.
ReadHuman Rights Institute Gets Big Gift
The matching gift challenge comes with support from longtime donors Phyllis and Gary Gladstein ’66 (CLAS), ’08 (HON).
ReadEau de Herring
Kimberly Grendzinski ’16 (CAHNR) begins every workday at NYC’s Central Park Zoo fending off a mob of hungry mob of heckling penguins.
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