UConn Magazine

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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

Andrea Hurley and Lyla Andrick smile and each hold a green dinosaur plush toy

UConn Magazine: Dino Might

Lyla Andrick’s dinosaurs have irresistibly squishy noses — and emotions

A diverse group of 9 women stands in front of a Korean palace wearing Hanbok, traditional Korean dress, in blues, purples, greens, and pinks.

UConn Magazine: Seoul Mates

University photographer Peter Morenus and wife, Jen Morenus, assistant director of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, are the kind of people who have connections all over campus — and very far from campus

Photo composite where Napheesa Collier wears a basketball jersey and looks over her shoulder to the side, her back to the camera at Brianna Stewart

UConn Magazine: Unrivaled

Forgive Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart for not gushing over the success of Unrivaled, the three on three women’s basketball league they cofounded

A crowd of UConn fans illustrated by Michael Byers

UConn Magazine: All Together Now

That connection you feel with fellow fans at the game? It’s even more powerful than you think

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UConn Magazine: The Good Neighbor

Michelle (Bussiere) Puzzo ’98 (CAHNR) is transforming Connecticut communities with a growing business and a simple mantra, “Just help people that say they need help”