Alumni

What a Team: Division of Athletics, Sport Management Program Provide Real-Life Experience to Students

This newly expanded partnership between the Neag School of Education and Division of Athletics helps students score valuable career-building experience

February 28, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Alumni Athletics
Members of Voices of Freedom practice some gospel tunes during the group’s rehearsal in the Music Building

Voices Rising: UConn’s Gospel Choir Finds Celebration in Sound

Born from the Civil Rights Movement, the Voices of Freedom choir has been raising spirits at UConn and beyond for over five decades

February 27, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips

Alumni UConn Voices
Lisa Milke, a shellfish research expert, has been appointed as the new head of NOAA’s ecosystems and aquaculture division and is pictured standing by a body of water in a NOAA hat

UConn Grad Appointed Head of NOAA’s Ecosystems and Aquaculture Division

From Avery Point to a senior leadership role in the crucially important federal agency

February 27, 2023 | Elaina Hancock

Alumni
At Gampel Pavilion last fall, Cash — with husband Steve Canal, sons Saint and Syer, and Coach — became the third Husky to have a basketball number retired. “I feel like we helped transition UConn into a different stratosphere,” says Number 32 of her ’02 Husky team.

UConn Magazine: #32

From the court to the front office, Swin Cash ’02 (CLAS) brings a winning mindset

February 24, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Alumni Athletics
Nicole Sanclemente and Geraldine Uribe

CLAS Connections: Nicole Sanclemente ’19 (CLAS) and Geraldine Uribe ’23 (CLAS)

Five heartfelt minutes with alumna Nicole Sanclemente ’19 (CLAS) and political science and urban and community studies student Geraldine Uribe ’23 (CLAS)

February 23, 2023 | Christine Buckley

Alumni
Fernando Betancourt and Fiona Vernal smile in front of exhibit posters.

EPOCH Shares Community Histories, From Connecticut to Côte d’Ivoire

Now officially in partnership with Connecticut Humanities, EPOCH will be working with towns across the state – beginning with Bloomfield, Windsor, and Enfield – to collect their own community histories

February 23, 2023 | Mac Murray

Alumni Community Impact Research & Discovery
Gary and Phyllis Gladstein posing for a photo

Human Rights Institute Renamed After Longtime Benefactor Gary Gladstein and Family

The UConn Board of Trustees Wednesday renamed the Human Rights Institute the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute to honor the legacy and support of alumnus Gary Gladstein and his family

February 22, 2023 | Grace Merritt, UConn Foundation

Alumni
Former Connecticut State Sen. Antonietta “Toni” Boucher ’02 MBA and her husband, Henry “Bud” Boucher,

UConn School of Business Names Boucher Management & Entrepreneurship Department

The gift—which is the University’s first departmental naming and the largest individual gift to the School of Business—will enable the School to launch new programming for the benefit of students and businesses

February 22, 2023 | Jennifer Eburg, UConn Foundation

Alumni Entrepreneurship
Man in woods

Uprooting Invasive Plants by Honoring Family Roots

Thanks to his CAHNR education, Christian Allyn created a business that uses science to combat the invasive plants he's been tackling since childhood

February 22, 2023 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources

Alumni

UConn Research Informs Policy Debate Over Wine Sales in Grocery Stores

UConn researchers conducted a comprehensive economic analysis of the potential impact of allowing grocery stores in Connecticut to sell wine

February 21, 2023 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources

Alumni Research & Discovery