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

Fans watching a football game on TV. (iStock Photo)

NFL Games Can Affect Sponsors’ Stock Returns

Win or lose, professional sports outcomes have an impact on sponsors’ cash flow, according to a UConn School of Business study.

January 7, 2016 | Kenneth Best

Research & Discovery
Tom Scheinfeldt, associate professor of digital media. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Mellon Grant Puts Digital Publishing at the Front-line

A new Scholarly Communications Design Studio, funded through the Mellon Foundation, will help expand digital scholarship at UConn.

December 18, 2015 | Kenneth Best

Images representing the Public Discourse Project. (Humanities Institute)

Research Projects Explore Meaningful Public Discourse

The Humanities Institute has funded 12 projects probing the nature of meaningful public discourse and identifying barriers to achieving it.

December 15, 2015 | Kenneth Best

Myles Mocarski '16 (SFA) plays violin during a rehearsal of the University Symphony Orchestra at von der Mehden Recital Hall on Nov. 16, 2015. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

From Practice to Performance: UConn’s Concerto Competition

The competition culminates in a concert this Thursday at von der Mehden Recital Hall.

December 8, 2015 | Kenneth Best

Research & Discovery
The Huskies will play in the St. Petersburg Bowl at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Football Headed to St. Petersburg Bowl

Husky Nation is abuzz, as the team prepares for its first bowl appearance since the 2010 season.

December 6, 2015 | Kenneth Best

Athletics
Same-sex couple. (iStock Photo)

Same-Sex Marriage and the Law

In a cross-national study, two UConn sociologists found that policy outcomes on same-sex marriage were closely tied to the courts.

December 4, 2015 | Kenneth Best

UConn Voices
Andrew Ramcharan Guilarte, center, as Malvolio, along with, from left, Richard Ruiz ’88 MFA, Mark Blashford MFA candidate in puppetry, ,and Curtis Longfellow, MFA candidate in acting, in Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s production of 'Twelfth Night,' by William Shakespeare. (Gerry Goodstein for UConn)

CRT’s ‘Twelfth Night’ Makes a Classic Play Contemporary

Director Victor Maog seeks to 'wake up the sleeping dragon' in Shakespeare's work.

December 3, 2015 | Kenneth Best

‘Born of Struggle’ Conference Comes to UConn

An international group of philosophers will discuss how people cope with oppression at a conference held in Storrs.

November 5, 2015 | Kenneth Best