A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lectures

The man behind those gorgeous campus photos on Instagram is a longtime UConn professor and wildlife biologist.

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And Now I Spill the UConn Secrets

The graphic memoir that’s getting so much attention for Margaret Kimball ’06 (SFA) had its beginnings in her UConn English course “Coming of Age in American Autobiography.”

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The Long Game

Neag School of Education professor and former Major League Baseball star Doug Glanville has no right to be this good at this many things.

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Sophs to a Flame

Everyone deserved an especially warm reception to UConn this year, so it wasn’t only first years who got the traditional Week of Welcome.

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The Best

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

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A Good Boy

Jonathan XIII, the snowy white Siberian Husky who represented UConn as its official mascot for almost six years before going into retirement as mentor and best friend to his successor, died in August at age 14.

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3,081 Miles

After Hannah Bacon ’15 (CLAS) lost her job at an environmental nonprofit due to the pandemic, she decided to use her time off to walk across the country to raise money and awareness for climate action.

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Your Turn

We want to hear from you — good, bad, just not ugly. Please share thoughts, insights, discrepancies, recollections — and how’s your Tom’s Trivia win-loss percentage coming?

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Connecticut Foodshare’s CEO

Jason Jakubowski ’99 (CLAS), ’01 MPA enlisted Husky help to get food to Connecticut families during the worst of the pandemic.

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Off Broadway

Stuart Brown, the recently retired director of student services at UConn Waterbury, moonlights as a theater critic, podcaster, and creator/host of the online radio broadcast “Sounds of Broadway,” which boasts 40,000 listeners a month.

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Armchair Travel to India, Israel, and Spain

Executive director of UConn Hillel Edina Oestreicher ’90 (CLAS) plans to hike the 500-plus-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain. But first, she’ll read about it.

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New Swing Tree Garden

Swan Lake’s new Swing Tree Garden is a tribute to the beloved Mirror Lake Swing Tree which, in failing health at age 70, was felled in 2019.

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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.

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UConn in the Media

On climate change, religious charter schools, and tackle football.

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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.

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Bee Good

A true entrepreneur, School of Engineering second year Raina Jain started working on the next big thing while perfecting her first one, the bee-saving HiveGuard.

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Huskies Back in the Big East 2021 Bonanza

UConn became a charter member of the Big East in 1979. The Huskies left the league in 2013. But the 2020–21 season saw UConn rock its return to roots.

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Who Is the Public in “Public Opinion”?

Former UConn President and current political science professor Susan Herbst’s latest book asks why public opinion pollsters seem to get so much so wrong these days.

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MCB-2612: Microbe Hunters

Life teems unseen in both the soil and the sea, waging an endless, hidden biochemical war. Students who take Patricia Rossi and Spencer Nyholm’s “Microbe Hunters” class, however, can witness it firsthand.

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Engineering to Offer Robotics Major

Next fall, prospective and existing UConn students will be able to declare majors in robotics engineering and UConn will become only the second research-intensive university in the U.S. to offer the specific major.

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A New Student-Inspired Café at Wilbur Cross

You don’t have to be a full-on vegan or vegetarian to enjoy the newest Storrs campus eatery, CrossRoads Café.

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Rise Up

A sociology graduate, Larkin-Wells honed her abilities as a breadmaker through UConn’s Sustainable Community Food Systems minor — a unique and intensive interdisciplinary program that combines theory and practice through service learning and hands-on experience with community partners.

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Nightclub Confidential

Matt Smith ’92 (CLAS) was in trouble. He had a full house, it was approaching 9 p.m., and he still hadn’t heard from his headliner.

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Curling

Leigh Ann Curl ’85 (CLAS) has been the head orthopedic surgeon for the Baltimore Ravens since 1998. Over and over, she has brought players back from injuries that appear career-ending.

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Nothing Stops Paratriathlete Amy Dixon

Despite a significant health setback during her training period, Amy Dixon took on the ultimate competition this summer as a member of Team USA in Tokyo.

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Huskies Take Tokyo

Six former Huskies helped Women’s Basketball Team USA to its seventh straight gold medal. All told, 14 former Huskies represented six nations in these 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

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Cool to be Kind

Aysha Mahmood’s job is, in short, to make kindness cool, a goal as ambitious as it is straightforward

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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.

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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.

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Olympic Flag Bearer

On the way to winning a historic fifth Olympic gold medal, Sue Bird ’02 (CLAS) was voted by fellow Team USA athletes to be the delegation’s flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

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Tom's Trivia

Do you you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS)?

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Fall ’21 Class Notes

Keep up with your classmates. Share your news with us!

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