Arts & Culture
MFA Acting Alum Makes Name for Himself as Cast Member on ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’
'Everything moved into place. It felt like prayers being answered'
July 14, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
More Than Simple Sonification: Next Phase of ‘Harmony of Nature’ Seeks to Make Music
'One of our goals is to be able to reach the nonscientist with scientific concepts and communicate those, and music is … [a] medium where it’s incredibly accessible to people'
July 9, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips, and Sydney Herdle
Scene Summer: UConn Film Student Documenting Underground Music in Connecticut
'All the bands support each other, and all the crowds are respectful, and everyone just wants to have a good time'
July 7, 2025 | Jaclyn Severance
Beautiful Moments: SFA Alum Brings Smiles to Bridal Couples with Live Event Painting
When Erin Leigh Boughamer '94 (SFA) left UConn three decades ago with a degree in graphic design from the School of Fine Arts, event painting hadn’t yet become part of bridal vocabulary. To ask her back then if she foresaw herself with a wardrobe of dressy pantsuits, each with at least a little dollop of acrylic paint on them, she’d have said no way
June 30, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
Picture This: Reflections of a Hospital Curator
Andre Rochester in his 3rd year as UConn Health’s Art Curator
June 17, 2025 | Andre Rochester
International Melville Conference at UConn Avery Point to Celebrate ‘Moby-Dick’ Author
About two dozen framed artworks on loan from The Melville Society are part of a concurrent exhibition at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art from now through June 19
June 10, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
Beautiful Choices: UConn Makes Its Mark on the World of Literary Translation
'You can't reproduce the language, but you can reproduce the effect it has on you when you read it'
May 20, 2025 | Jaclyn Severance
This Is Your Brain On Music: Groundbreaking UConn-led Study Shows How the Brain Keeps the Beat
'Neural resonance theory' offers new way to understand how the brain transforms sound into music
May 8, 2025 | Mac Murray
Guggenheim Fellow from UConn Preserving Wayang Puppetry for Posterity
'This is a generous award that puts me into some remarkable company. If you look back at the people in my field who have received a Guggenheim, it’s a ‘who’s who’ of American theater'
May 6, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
Seeing Is Believing: UConn’s Materials Library Helps Student Researchers Weigh Options
The library houses a collection of raw, manufactured, and reclaimed materials from all over the world that go into the built environment around us
May 5, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips