UConn Magazine

Motaref in khaki cardigan and black pants stands in front of a large metal structure.

UConn Magazine: Coveted Class – Applied Mechanics I

Even when walking her dog, Sarira Motaref, professor-in-residence in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SoCEE), is attuned to structures and forces — and to her classes

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UConn Magazine: Andi Duro’s Two Cents

A social network where your net worth is your handle? Andi Duro’s twocents is changing the way people talk about wealth

A group of four people, two men, Leonard Blanks and Otis Wade, and two women Courtney and Solé Blanks, pose proudly for a photo. They are all dressed in suits. The two women have one hand on each shoulder of the elder gentleman, Otis, sitting at a table in the foreground of the group shot.

UConn Magazine: “Blue-and-White Blood”

On Mother’s Day 2025, Solé Blanks ’25 (CLAS), ’26 MA, draped in blue regalia, stepped across the floor of Gampel Pavilion when her name was called, continuing a family legacy as the fourth generation to graduate from UConn

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UConn Magazine: In Love with Lizzie’s

Lizzie’s Curbside food truck has been quenching the hunger of Huskies for 35 years with sandwiches like our cover pinup Cuban and The Shroom

Moyo, woman in blue, sits in a soft orange armchair, holding a coffee cup. She is smiling and appears to be enjoying her time in the cozy atmosphere.

UConn Magazine: Thornless

If you spy junior Rose Moyo studying for her next molecular biology exam, she could well be wearing something she crocheted and snacking on a lemon curd pavlova she recently pulled from the oven

A group of women in a gym, practicing yoga. They are all wearing white prison shirts and black pants. They are stretching into a yoga pose.

UConn Magazine: The Yogi Inside

“A practice like this is meant for a place like this"

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UConn Magazine: The Last Cookie in the Box

Arthur M. Horwitz dates his hall-of-fame journalism career not to his appointment as the editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Daily Campus but to his days on a New Haven paper route

A brightly colored illustrated caricature of Gameday Conor, depicted as a smiling bearded man in marathon gear, with a basketball twirling on his finger that is also the sun. He is at a UConn Huskies game and runs across the court with a Huskies microphone in his other hand.

UConn Magazine: Gameday Conor is Everywhere

If you’ve been to a UConn basketball, football, or baseball game since 2018, you’ve likely cheered, sung, waved, and screamed along with the ubiquitous Conor Geary aka GameDay Conor

Jackie Wattes smiles in front of an illustrated backdrop of solar system and rocket ship.

UConn Magazine: Into the Exosphere

Before she reported on the stars of outer space professionally, Jackie Wattles spent her UConn journalism days reporting on the stars of student government

An illustration featuring a male runner going past a road sign that says 50 on it. Ahead, there is another, cautionary road sign with a bent path icon on it.

UConn Magazine: Age with Power and Grace

Jeff Cavaliere is jacked, but he’s no gym bro. Nor does he brook “bro science,” advice that sounds convincing but lacks scientific evidence