UConn Magazine

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UConn Magazine: Do What Matters Most

What were you meant to do with your one precious life? This research-driven Life Purpose Lab workshop helps us to unearth our true passions

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UConn Magazine: C. Michael White Is on a Mission

For starters, we should understand that the kratom known as gas station heroin is much different than natural kratom leaf

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UConn Magazine: The Principal Formerly Known as DLew

The public STEAM academy in Norwalk helmed by Damon Lewis is such a Cinderella transformation tale that it has garnered the former UConn football captain state and national principal-of-the-year titles

Guidotti poses next to Nerds Gummy Clusters mascot.

UConn Magazine: Our Candy Crush

Taking the candy world by storm: the Nerds Gummy Cluster — and UConn’s Greg Guidotti

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UConn Magazine: Someone to Talk To

Bobby Melley, former Husky and Tampa Bay Ray, invented an app to help student-athletes battle isolation

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UConn Magazine: Nine Innings with a Baseball Legend

Nine facts about Judy Walden Scarafile, best known for her six-decade tenure with the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League

Dieter Tejada sits on stone steps wearing a tweed suit with a maroon pocket handkerchief and dark tie, looking pensively at the camera

UConn Magazine: Opportunity Found

Dieter Tejada’s atypical arc includes a guilty plea to an assault conviction, a degree from Vanderbilt Law, and an absolute, unconditional pardon

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UConn Magazine: Riding the AI Wave

Is Artificial Intelligence a friendly current making life’s ride a smooth glide or a gathering tsunami headed for a certain civilization decimating crash? Depends who you ask

Morty Ortega, in a brown hat and plaid shirt at the left of the frame, looks through a telescope with a craggy mountain peak behind him at Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile, in 1980

UConn Magazine: The Ortega Effect

From firefighters to photographers, hundreds of UConn alums credit one brilliant, patient, unassuming professor for helping them cut through their confusion and fear to steer a purposeful course through college, work, and life

Susan Brown wears a green button-down top and smiles while holding a bright red apple in front of apple trees full of more bright-red apples on a blue-sky day.

UConn Magazine: Inventor of your Next Favorite Apple

All hail Snap Dragons and Autumn Crisps: What it means to be queen of the fruit breeding universe