Kimberly Phillips

Kimberly Phillips embarked on a career in journalism at 16 when a high school friend interested in starting a student newspaper recruited her help. She went on to intern and later work at the weekly paper in her Connecticut hometown, and after graduation from Central Connecticut State University joined the staff at the Register Citizen in Torrington. In early 2002, she moved to the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, rising through the ranks from reporter to town editor, state editor, and eventually news editor. After nearly 20 years at the JI, the last four as the newsroom’s top local editor, she shifted her professional path, wanting to get back to personally telling people’s stories. Phillips came to UConn in December 2021 to write for UConn Today and promote the University community’s achievements. She lives in Manchester with husband Jay and son Ethan.


Author Archive

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‘The Ability to Give and Receive Love’: Researchers Look at Effects of Acceptance, Rejection

'There’s no single experience in human life that's more important than the experience of being cared about by the people who are most important to you'

A woman is seated in an art gallery.

Beautiful Moments: SFA Alum Brings Smiles to Bridal Couples with Live Event Painting

When Erin Leigh Boughamer '94 (SFA) left UConn three decades ago with a degree in graphic design from the School of Fine Arts, event painting hadn’t yet become part of bridal vocabulary. To ask her back then if she foresaw herself with a wardrobe of dressy pantsuits, each with at least a little dollop of acrylic paint on them, she’d have said no way

A multicolored, wooden sculpture sits on a pedestal in an art gallery with other framed art in the background.

International Melville Conference at UConn Avery Point to Celebrate ‘Moby-Dick’ Author

About two dozen framed artworks on loan from The Melville Society are part of a concurrent exhibition at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art from now through June 19

Matthew Isaac Cohen, professor of dramatic arts, at the Puppet Arts Complex

Guggenheim Fellow from UConn Preserving Wayang Puppetry for Posterity

'This is a generous award that puts me into some remarkable company. If you look back at the people in my field who have received a Guggenheim, it’s a ‘who’s who’ of American theater'

Portrait of Christopher Sancomb in the Materials Library

Seeing Is Believing: UConn’s Materials Library Helps Student Researchers Weigh Options

The library houses a collection of raw, manufactured, and reclaimed materials from all over the world that go into the built environment around us

Ebonie Marie hadnign out affirmations to students on Fairfield Way

Graduating Student Passes Out Affirmations to Those Who Need to Heal – Including Herself

Starting at the Student Union, she’s covered much of campus, including Wilbur Cross and the Homer Babbidge Library, in search of students who look like her

A group of people stand together wearing paper Shakespeare masks.

Imagine Shakespeare in Front of a PS4 – Probably Not, But the Bard Has Influenced Gaming

'Not all literature is so easily translated into new forms and new media. Most of Shakespeare can be adapted to pretty much any time and place'

A historical black and white photograph of the 1948 Progressive Party national convention.

Undergraduate Political Review Gives Students Chance to Dig Deep Outside the Classroom

'You read the news. You think about these things. It’s just a way to formally express it'

A student describes his research poster, on a window behind him, to a woman whose back is to the camera.

Nursing and Engineering Innovation Forum Highlights Interdisciplinary Work

'Just one conversation can open the door'

A group of yellow crime scene evidence markers on the street and brass bullet shell casings

New Online Dashboard Offers Look at Violent Deaths in Connecticut – When, Where, and How

Details on how much violent death is in the state has been hard to come by until now