
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
Army Ants March into New Exhibition
'The majority of the guests are microscopic. Since we couldn't scale the exhibit's visitors down, our solution was to scale the army ants and their guests up.'
April 28, 2017 | Kenneth Best
The Quiet Genius of Coach Penders
Baseball is in the blood of UConn Huskies baseball coach Jim F. Penders ’94 (CLAS), ’98 MA – not just figuratively, but also, one may argue, literally.
April 27, 2017 | Kenneth Best
How the ‘War to End All Wars’ Shaped Connecticut
Art and artifacts on display at the Dodd Center and Babbidge Library recall the U.S. entry into World War I on April 6, 2017.
April 5, 2017 | Kenneth Best
Thoreau: Out of the Woods and Onto the River
UConn professor Robert Thorson says Henry David Thoreau, best known for writing about life in the woods, was also a boatman and scientific expert.
March 14, 2017 | Kenneth Best
New Graduates Enter a Good Job Market
'The number of recruiters at UConn's career fairs are double what they were four years ago,' says the director of the Center for Career Development.
March 1, 2017 | Kenneth Best
Stage Left: Playwright Enters as CRT Director
Michael Bradford directs the Connecticut Repertory Theatre's production of two one-act plays, headlined by 'Waiting for Lefty,' which opens today.
February 23, 2017 | Kenneth Best
From Conflict to Peace: The Role of Art
Memorials commemorating a nation’s past conflicts can help build a more peaceful future, say two UConn researchers.
February 17, 2017 | Kenneth Best
Grants Target Broken Landscape of American Discourse
The research awards, ranging from $160,000 to $225,000, provide two-year fellowships for applying cutting-edge research to improving public discourse.
February 13, 2017 | Kenneth Best
New Exhibition Treads ‘Sacred Ground’
'UConn Reads: Sacred Ground' at the Benton Museum is based on this year's UConn Reads selection, which outlines a vision of America where people of all faiths can make a country where diverse traditions thrive side by side.
February 2, 2017 | Kenneth Best
What Set the Stage for Current U.S.-Russia Relations
As Vladimir Putin sees it, the U.S. has interfered in many elections around the world, including the 2011 Russian parliamentary election. These resentments set the stage for where we’re at now, says UConn's Frank Costigliola.
January 19, 2017 | Kenneth Best