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
2,000-year-old Ship Found Intact by UConn Expert, Colleagues
Avery Point-based Kroum Batchvarov is co-director of the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project, which has discovered more than 60 shipwrecks so far.
September 25, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
Super PACs ‘Based on Ideology Rather than Business’
Super PACs created to influence presidential and congressional election campaigns are primarily associated with ideological and issue-based causes rather than businesses, say UConn researchers.
September 1, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
Eclipse as Omen: The Human Response
A UConn philosophy professor who has studied early astronomy across cultures discusses how humans have interpreted eclipses in history.
August 17, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
If Father Knows Best, Is He Right?
Political scientist Jeffrey Dudas discusses the concept of fatherhood in the mid-20th century conservative movement through the personal histories of three iconic figures who continue to influence today’s politics.
August 15, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
Talking Baseball Assists Aging Adults with Dementia
A UConn researcher has found that using baseball as the focus of reminiscence therapy for elderly adults with dementia can spark memories and prompt an emotional response.
July 31, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
America’s Ongoing Struggle for Equal Rights
'Our contradictions are built into our political DNA,' says UConn historian Richard D. Brown.
June 26, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
Improving the Teaching of Writing
More than 525 Connecticut teachers have attended a Connecticut Writing Project Summer Institute since it began 35 years ago.
June 22, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
Campus Bookstore Renovations Aim to Create ‘Social Hub’
With students increasingly ordering textbooks online or in digital format, the floor space can be used for public gatherings and other student needs, such as school supplies and residence hall accessories.
June 13, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
Nutmeg Summer Series Opens with Broadway Veteran as Director
The series opens at Harriet Jorgensen Theatre June 1 with '1776,' the musical version of events leading up to the American Revolution.
May 31, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications
The Dangerous Brew of Politics and Water
Often political decisions, not scientific reasoning, determines the fate of natural resources, the environment or other key resources., Veronica Herrera says.
May 18, 2017 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications