Our Defining Moments
These Huskies — students, staff, professors, doctors, nurses, and graduates new and old —are finding innovative ways to help us all navigate a global pandemic.
ReadThe New Reparations Math
Professor of public policy Thomas Craemer realized that the typical calculations concerning slavery reparations in this country simply did not add up. So he did some new math.
ReadDancing on a Sunday? Don’t Do That!
Mike Chase ’11 JD, author of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account, treats UConn Nation to exclusive diabolical drawings and criminally funny ruminatings.
ReadLight Years Away
Each semester Stephen Stifano asks his COMM 1000 students to encapsulate their UConn experience in a photo worth, well, you know.
ReadJust 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.
ReadAbby Beissinger, Plant Detective
Farmers and gardeners bring, mail, and post samples of their sick plants to Beissinger who often drills down to a cellular level to make a diagnosis.
ReadOct. 15, 1969, Student Protest Against the Vietnam War
Connecticut Daily Campus photographer Howard Goldbaum ’70 (CLAS) snapped throughout the day.
ReadSummer Smoothies
Green, berry, peanut butter? Home recipes for these whole-food smoothies that will be served at the Student Rec Center.
ReadSi Se Puede
This extraordinary class of seniors (and near-seniors) had already weathered a number of major storms before the pandemic hit.
ReadThe Art of Flotsam and Jetsam
Elizabeth Ellenwood ’20 MFA, a recent Fulbright recipient, turns beachcombing into advocate art.
ReadOn the March
Senior staff editor for The New York Times opinion section Alexandra March ’10 (CLAS) penned her first opinion piece for the paper about being pregnant in a pandemic.
ReadStaying Well
Staying well means staying on the move — even when you’re stuck at home, says exercise guru Emily Abbate ’10 (CLAS).
ReadLocal Hero
Louis Goffinet ’17 (CLAS) offered in a Facebook post to shop for elderly neighbors. Two months later he was still shopping, and overseeing a $30,000 Neighbors Grocery Fund.
ReadIn Fashion
Ahmed Diakhate ’23 (BUS) created and donated 250 face masks to frontline health care workers.
ReadMarried to the Arts, Engineering — and Each Other
Long before a new institute at UConn bore their name, Donna Samson ’84 (SFA) and John Krenicki ’84 (ENG) were juniors living in McMahon Hall.
ReadBaptism by Fire
“I’m not just learning how to be a good nurse, but how to be a good nurse in the middle of a pandemic,” says Mia Hrabcsak ’19 (NUR).
ReadTom's Trivia, Summer 2020
See if you know as much as King of UConn Trivia Tom Breen ’00 (CLAS).
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