University Life
UConn Joins BOLD Women’s Leadership Network
Each year, seven female UConn students will benefit from opportunities for career development and support, thanks to a grant from Helen Gurley Brown’s Pussycat Foundation.
January 15, 2019 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
The Pioneering Work of a Female Portrait Artist
The curator of the Ellen Emmet Rand exhibition at Benton Museum describes the early 20th-century portraitist as "one of the most important female artists that you’ve never heard of before."
January 14, 2019 | Kenneth Best
UConn Football Receives $1 Million Gift
The gift from alumnus Chris Fraser '80 will fund new lockers in the Burton Family Football Complex and other enhancements to the program.
January 10, 2019 | Athletic Communications
Path to USA Women’s Basketball Gold Goes Through Storrs
Ken Best of UConn 360 podcast checks in with Geno Auriemma, Napheesa Collier, and some familiar names from UConn women's basketball.
January 10, 2019 | Kenneth Best
In Memoriam Norman Stevens, Longtime Director of University Libraries
Norman Stevens, who served nearly three decades at UConn, was an early advocate of computer technology in libraries.
December 21, 2018 | Combined Reports
Year in Photos
A team of staff and student photographers captures the life of the state's flagship university every year. Take a look at 2018.
December 20, 2018 | Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu
New Dean Named to College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
“I believe deeply in the missions of land grant institutions like UConn,” says Juli Wade, incoming dean.
December 20, 2018 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
Students Talk Climate at COP24
Student bloggers who were part of UConn's delegation to the recent UN climate change summit in Poland discuss the personal impact of their experiences.
December 19, 2018 | Elaina Hancock
New Foundation Board Chair has High Goals for UConn
'Giving back should begin at graduation,' says John Malfettone '77 (BUS), the new chair of the Foundation Board of Directors.
December 13, 2018 | Claire Hall
The Right President at the Right Time
Rufus Stimson, president from 1901 to 1908, helped Connecticut Agricultural College grow beyond anything the institution's founders had imagined.
December 12, 2018 | Tom Breen