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Can we stop deadly heat in its tracks with ice and science?
UConn Magazine: Seoul Mates
University photographer Peter Morenus and wife, Jen Morenus, assistant director of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, are the kind of people who have connections all over campus — and very far from campus
UConn Magazine: The Good Neighbor
Michelle (Bussiere) Puzzo ’98 (CAHNR) is transforming Connecticut communities with a growing business and a simple mantra, “Just help people that say they need help”
Challenging Convention: Human Rights-Centered Engineering at UConn
At UConn, the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative is changing the way our engineers are taught to approach all kinds of projects
Mitigating Climate Change Extinction
Mitigating Climate Change Extinction Can mapping the big picture pinpoint the most fragile futures? UConn ecology and evolutionary biology professor Mark Urban has crunched the numbers – again – and the results are even clearer: For every degree that global temperatures rise, more species will become extinct. Published in the journal Science in December 2024, […]
UConn Magazine: Waxing Entrepreneurial
For Michelle Wax ‘12 (BUS), happiness means embracing the pivot
Can We Heal Injured Veterans by Studying Basketball?
Neal Glaviano is acutely aware of knee pain's impact in active duty and reserve-based military units – and is applying knowledge gained from working with UConn's student athletes toward helping active-duty service members and veterans.
UConn Magazine: Paper Work
As the university archivist at Eastern Connecticut State University, Tara Ludlow Hurt ’94 (CLAS) does the dirty work of rescuing centuries-old documents for posterity
UConn Magazine: Who Tells Our (Pandemic) Story
Too often history is written by the powerful. A UConn anthropologist made sure the story of COVID-19 was chronicled by the rest of us
UConn Magazine: Seeking “Smart with Heart” at Pixar
Eunice Omega says the coolest thing about working at Pixar is the impact
UConn Magazine: Eat Your Words
English Professor Emerita Lynn Z. Bloom goes deep on recipes and shares her own, for the best blueberry pie
UConn Magazine: Out of the Minds of Babes
Cute kids, brilliant scientists, and exciting trips bring joy for Amanda Yagan ’21 (CLAS) at the Advanced Baby Imaging Lab.
UConn Magazine: Giants Among Us
The first lesson imparted by Frank Costigliola as we motor and meander around his 195-acre farm a few miles from campus in Storrs is his secret to balancing research, writing, teaching, and farming: a carefully calibrated system of napping.
Why Social Work is Political, and How it Matters for Democracy
Tanya Rhodes Smith of the School of Social Work talks about elections, health, and why policymakers should seek insight from social workers
UConn Magazine: Professor’s Pride
Poli sci professor Christine Sylvester catches up with former student Timothy Bussey, author of “Freedom to Serve: The Definitive Guide to LGBTQ Military Service.”
UConn Magazine: Our American Girls
What do you do with a history doctorate and a pop culture obsession? If you’re these two alums, you create a hit podcast centering on ’90s nostalgia.
Walking Down Memory Lane to Battle COVID Isolation
An unexpected result of a project designed to combat pandemic isolation changed the lives of a student and her 93-year-old project partner.
Social Work Students Turn to Old-Fashioned Advocacy
Clinical social work students learn the power of the written word to advocate through Letters to the Editor