
Writer
Kenneth Best
Ken Best served as editor of UCONN Magazine for 10 years. He is a co-host of the UConn 360 Podcast. He previously covered news and sports in Connecticut for The New York Times, edited the Weekend section for the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time, wrote arts and culture stories syndicated by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and was the media coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 2015 he hosted “Walking a Blues Road,” a weekly program on WHUS in Storrs based on the holdings of the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African-American Musical Culture at UConn’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. He is the author of Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Pomegranate Books).
Author Archive
UConn Magazine: Off Broadway
The recently retired director of student services at UConn Waterbury brings the stage to more than 40,000 listeners a month
October 28, 2021 | Kenneth Best
Huskies Heading to Tokyo for Summer Games Will Represent Six Nations
UConn will be represented by 16 athletes at the Summer Olympics and Paralympics
July 23, 2021 | Kenneth Best
DMD Professor’s ‘Blackhaven’ Game Lets Players Unravel Mysteries of the Past
A historically-themed video game that explores themes of contemporary relevance
July 14, 2021 | Kenneth Best
Benton Museum Provides Look at Joe Standart’s ‘Immigrant Eyes’ Project
An intimate insight into the lives of immigrants to Connecticut
July 12, 2021 | Kenneth Best
Ballard Museum Exhibition Examines ‘Puppetry’s Racial Reckoning’
A new exhibit inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and national conversation about racism
June 30, 2021 | Kenneth Best
Huskies Baseball Opens NCAA Tournament Against Michigan
The Huskies won both the regular season and Big East tournament in the same season for the first time
June 4, 2021 | Kenneth Best
Clinton Global Initiative Selects Student Proposal to Develop Music Therapy App for Stress Management
'The Clinton Global Initiative encourages projects with a commitment to action and not just wishful thinking'
June 1, 2021 | Kenneth Best
UNIMA Cites Roccoberton as ‘Chancellor of Puppetry Education’ for Global Influence
From China to Storrs, recognizing the international scope of Roccoberton's influence
May 26, 2021 | Kenneth Best
Moving BFA Exhibit Online Illustrates Post-Graduate Life for Art Majors
'If you missed this deadline, you wouldn't be in this catalog. There were more real-world consequences'
May 19, 2021 | Kenneth Best
20th Class of Humanities Institute Fellows Pursue Wide Range of Scholarship
This year’s class of fellows includes two visiting residential fellows, four dissertation scholars, and nine UConn faculty fellows
April 29, 2021 | Kenneth Best