UConn Magazine

UConn Magazine offers in-depth features about students, faculty, and alumni at the University and a round-up of University news, with a focus on items of interest to alumni. It is published three times a year, in March, July, and November. Archived magazine issues are also available online at magazine.uconn.edu.

• 2012 Spring Edition – UCONN Magazine

  

  Geno Goes for the Gold: When Geno Auriemma arrived in the United States at the age of 7 from a small village in Italy he was self-conscious and unsure of himself. He built a basketball dynasty in Storrs and now will lead the USA Basketball National team to the 2012 Olympics in London.

  Preserving a People’s Heritage: The acclaimed actress and humanitarian activist Mia Farrow discusses her efforts to document the cultural traditions and oral history of refugees from Sudan and Darfur and the research archive she has established at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

  Journeys of Faith: Gerald Krell ’57 (SFA), an award-winning documentary film producer describes his trilogy of films which examine the similarities and differences among the world’s religions, and the hope that they will help make the world a better place.

  Driving the Economy: Mary Holz-Clause, the University’s first vice president for economic development, talks about the ways in which UConn can contribute to economic development across the region.

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• 2011 Fall/Winter Edition – UCONN Magazine

  

  Growing the Farm Economy: The Connecticut agricultural economy is a $3.5 billion industry that includes many alumni from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources who have expanded their core businesses, rooted in food and plant products, to meet new consumer needs.

  How Do We Learn to Speak and Read? World-renowned Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Conn., has studied the science of the spoken and written word for more than four decades, led by UConn faculty and alumni.
  

  Out and About: In 1999, incidents of gay bias on the Storrs campus made national news, resulting in a movement to establish a community atmosphere for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. Today, UConn is among the nation’s most LGBT-friendly campuses.

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• 2011 Summer Edition—UCONN Magazine

  Protecting the World of Ideas: The legal wrangling over who came up with the idea for Facebook is just one legal issue arising today in the burgeoning field of intellectual property law.

  The Anthropology of Feasting: Humans gathering together for a sumptuous feast can be traced to the Middle East, according to a UConn anthropologist who has discovered evidence of feasting dating back 10,000 years.

  Teaching in Wartime: Careers for two family members intended for law and politics moved toward a pursuit of teaching in an unlikely place—during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Challenges in Social Work Today: UCONN Magazine brought together six prominent alumni from the School of Social Work for a roundtable discussion on the challenges and current issues in their field, amid a changing landscape of human needs.

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• 2011 Spring Edition—UCONN Magazine

  

  A Conversation with Susan Herbst: UConn’s 15th president discusses her new role after serving as executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer for the University System of Georgia.

  Transforming Nursing: As the nation’s health care system faces changes and new challenges nowhere is this more evident than in the evolution of nurse training.

  Sounds of Music Rise in Phoenix Museum: Bill DeWalt ’69 (CLAS), ’76 Ph.D., orchestrates the opening of a new museum in Phoenix devoted to musical instruments from throughout the world.

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