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 the Hartford area with her husband and son.


Author Archive

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Wow! UConn English Professor Earns Guggenheim to Work on Next Book of Poetry

V. Penelope Pelizzon is one of 223 individuals worldwide, and the only from UConn, named to the 101st class by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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Celebrating a Centennial: UConn Law Library a Cherished Place

‘There’s a reason why we celebrate the library building. ... It belongs to everybody’

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In Met Gala Season, UConn Professor Differentiates Between Costumes and Art

‘If you were to write a character of yourself, what would you be wearing?’

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Advanced Journalism Class Tests Students’ Abilities

Publication Practice is unique each semester with a different instructor and topic to give students the opportunity to delve into a single topic and become experts in it.

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Finishing College Meant Surviving Foster Care, Soon-To-Be Grad Targets Helping Others

Her project, “Foster Care to Campus Care,” included the creation of a brochure detailing precisely where foster-experienced students can go for resources

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Senior’s Retelling of Folktales Headed to Stage

'There’s something exhilarating about having a script out and watching the actors play and work with it. There have been times I’ve forgotten that I had anything to do with writing it'

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Children’s Book Author, Soon-To-Be Grad Sees Value in Experience

Having grown up in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, Luisana Duarte Armendáriz ’26 Ph.D. straddled the line between languages, cultures, and national borders

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Two-Day Puerto Rican Summit Aims for Change

Puerto Rico: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, sponsored by UConn’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Community Engagement and Public Policy (UConnPRSI), was held March 20-21

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Surviving Adversity Comes From Daily Choices

'We all will experience hardship, and what’s important is how you respond to it'

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‘None of us can escape aging’: Doctoral Project Looks at Getting Older in Northeastern CT

Asmita Aasaavari immersed herself in ethnographic research and slowly built relationships for her dissertation, which this year received support from a fellowship through the UConn Humanities Institute

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Study: Sympathy Works Best on Health Warnings

UConn professor's research pit narrative versus nonnarrative pictorial warning labels against one another and measured their emotive effects

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Honors Thesis Asks Thoughts on Man-or-Bear Question, Tries to Assess Outside Influences

The survey asked five demographic questions and five research-based questions, including how the person feels about the trend, whether the question makes them feel validated or scapegoated, and if the debate accurately reflects real-world issues

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‘Love Is Not a Plan’

UConn researcher talks about the different forms that caregiving can take, the result of absent social safety nets, and how ableism permeates the culture

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More Than Disease: Art Major with Goal of Becoming MD Humanizes Patients on Canvas

‘People make this crazy distinction between art and science, but they’re really just two sides of the same coin to me’

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UConn Faculty, Alum Help Bring Story of Tortured Renaissance Composer to Life

'Death of Gesualdo,' which premieres in the U.S. on Feb. 13 in New York City, is being staged as a tableau vivant, in which the actors strike poses to tell a story

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UConn Crowd Hears from Pete Buttigieg: ‘Hope is the consequence of action more than its cause’

'I would like to believe that there is a future where we can actually be negotiating between left and right'

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UConn Ph.D. Candidate Fostering Partnership with Litchfield School for Diverse Learners

'Forman is a school that serves students with learning differences, but also explicitly teaches them how their brains actually work and learn. That’s been a passion of mine for over 20 years now'

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Study Finds That Missionaries Pull from Same Language Toolkit to Describe Experiences

'Life is full of challenging transitions. ... Our study gives us insight into the ways people draw upon language to give meaning and make sense of something that’s challenging'

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UConn Senior Blends Disability Studies and Food Culture into Major Ready for Garnish

'Who knows? Cooking on Wheels may turn into more of a business selling adaptive cookware. The entrepreneurship possibilities are wide ranging'

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UConn Magazine: Someone to Talk To

Bobby Melley, former Husky and Tampa Bay Ray, invented an app to help student-athletes battle isolation