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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).


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The moment of political choice in the 2016 Presidential Election. (iStock Photo)

Presidential Election: How You Process Information Determines Your Vote

Communication professor Carolyn Lin says differing styles of information processing shape either a more rational or a more emotional decision-making process that affects voters' choice.

'Se Siente El Miedo,' acrylic paint on wood by Michelle Angela Ortiz (2016).

Stamford Race and Revolution Exhibition May Prompt Strong Reactions

UConn Stamford director Terrence Cheng says the exhibit is part of an important discussion about history, race, diversity, culture, and justice.

Christine Goss ’18 (SFA), playing the harpsichord, and soprano Sarah Himmelstein ’17 (SFA) are members of UConn’s Collegium Musicum who will perform 'Shakespeare’s Songbook' music from the plays of William Shakespeare at 8 p.m., on Friday, Sept. 23 at the William Benton Museum of Art. (Photo by Matthew Pugliese.)

Singing Shakespeare Style

“Shakespeare’s Songbook” will be performed by the UConn Collegium Musicum on Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. in the William Benton Museum of Art.

Juan Carlos Sanchez of Univision , left, records Jen Morenus '97 (SFA), assistant director, Fany D. Hannon '08 MA, director, and Natalia Gutierrez '18 (ENG) at the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center on Aug. 12, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Leader Recognized for Contributions to the Hispanic Community

"I’m rewarded by seeing our students being successful,” says Fany Hannon, director of UConn's Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, who is celebrated for her work.

Water Works: Exhibit and Film on the Danube River

The documentary has been shown in Oryahovo, Bulgaria, and Vienna, Austria

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Exhibit Recalls 35 Years of HIV/AIDS

Three exhibitions at UConn trace the progression of HIV/AIDS from diagnosis to death sentence to manageable disease.

First Folio, Works by William Shakespeare on display at the Benton Museum on Sept. 1, 2016. (Ryan Glista/UConn Photo)

First Folio Exhibit Opens at UConn

UConn is also presenting a variety of related academic and cultural programs to complement the exhibition.

Muslim woman waving an American flag. (iStock Photo)

Sociologist Charts Public Opinion Shifts on Racial Profiling

A UConn Ph.D. student is examining how public opinion on counter-terrorism may affect an individual’s civil rights.

Being the Family Breadwinner is Unhealthy for Men

As men take on more financial responsibility, their psychological well-being and health declines, says a new UConn study.

Attendees at the 2016 Intellectual Humility in Secondary Education Summer Institute discuss their beliefs on what causes genocide at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center on Aug. 1, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Moving the Conversation Forward

Twenty schoolteachers are on campus this week to learn how to help their students discuss complex issues in productive ways.