University Life

Turning Over a New Leaf: UConn’s Trees

All across campus, the trees are leafing out and preparing to bloom – a welcome sign that spring is underway.

Instagram Year in Review 2015-16. (Angelina Reyes/UConn Photo)

UConn on Instagram: Another Amazing Year

See UConn through our students’ eyes (and camera phones) in this review of 2015-2016.

Ben Goldman ’18 (CLAS) interviews students on camera about the last photo on their phone. (Ryan Glista '16 (CLAS)/UConn Photo)

Last Photo on Your Phone

Members of UConn Nation reveal the last photo they took on their phone and relate the story behind it.

President Susan Herbst talks with students during her office hours in Gulley Hall. (Ariel Dowski/UConn File Photo)

President Herbst to Hold Open Office Hours April 29

The President invites students to her open office hours this Friday, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., in Gulley Hall.

Mud Wars: The OOze Awakens

Another great year of OOzeball at UConn. More than 2,500 joined in the mud-filled tradition, including President Herbst.

Jonathan the Husky poses wearing an Elizabethan collar on stage at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

‘Be Not Afraid of Greatness:’ Shakespeare’s First Folio Coming to UConn

The exhibition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, will be on campus in September, accompanied by many other cultural events.

BFA and MFA acting students star in Monty Python’s Spamalot onstage at Connecticut Repertory Theatre April 21-May 1, 2016. (Gerry Goodstein for UConn)

Acting Alum Debuts as Director of Musical Comedy

'Monty Python’s Spamalot,' based on the British comedy troupe’s send-up of the King Arthur legend, is onstage at UConn April 21-May1.

Kamar Thomas, The Big Purple One, detail from "Schizophrenic Masculinity," Oil on Canvas, 2016

MFA Exhibition Explores Aspects of Self-Discovery

The themes represented in this year’s Master of Fine Arts exhibition include racial identity and rural upbringing.

The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a well-known headquarters for the Civil Rights Movement, was bombed in 1963. Cathy Schlund-Vials reflects on the interconnections between church and state, as the UConn Reads program transitions from last year’s theme of race to the upcoming theme of religion. (Photo by Chris Pruitt (own work), via Wikimedia Commons)

UConn Reads: Race, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement

The chair of the UConn Reads Selection Committee draws connections between last year's theme of race and the upcoming theme of religion.

Historian Michael Beschloss, left, and President Susan Herbst speak during the Edmund Fusco Contemporary Issues Forum held at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on April 13, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Historian Discusses Great Presidents

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss gave this year's talk in the Fusco Contemporary Issues series, and held a group discussion with students.