UConn Magazine

Students, such as senior Michael Degloria, study fruit flies in this class to determine whether diet can help animals recover from concussions.

UConn Magazine: The Anatomy of a Fruit Fly

Two professors and a grad student devise a class to help students get the wet lab experience they need for grad school — with an assist from the mighty fruit fly

Michael Connery at his vineyard and event venue, Kingdom of Hawk.

UConn Magazine: Everything’s Coming up Rosé

Two of the things Michael Connery ’75 JD likes most about his second-chapter vocation as a vineyard owner are the view and “that sense of creating something tangible”

Ryan Matthews speaking at a Susie Foundation event

UConn Magazine: For Mom

In the wake of a tragic loss, Ryan Matthews ’09 (CLAS), ’16 MPA started The Susie Foundation, a nonprofit that supports families caring for relatives with ALS

Concord (N.H.) Monitor

Granite Geek: You Know What Stone Walls Need? A Taxonomy!

Illustration of flowers with kind words surrounding it

UConn Magazine: Be Kind

The secret to how we can all get along? Start close to home, even closer than you think

Bailey at her 59-stall horse ranch in August.

UConn Magazine: Billion Dollar Bailey

Running gave Trisha Bailey her start in life and continues to be an inspiration

Renowned graphic artist Peter Good ’65 (SFA), who received the University Medal for his work designing the University’s oak leaf logo and is perhaps best known as the designer behind the enduring Hartford Whalers logo, died at home in Chester, Connecticut, on May 3 at age 80.

UConn Magazine: A Good Life

Noemi Zelanski Kearns ’89 (SFA) remembers the late renowned graphic artist Peter Good ’65 (SFA), the designer behind enduring work including the University’s oak leaf and the Hartford Whalers logo

Sue Bird during her 2022 WNBA farewell season

UConn Magazine: The Moments That Made Sue Bird

Husky royalty and WNBA icon Sue Bird reflects on some of the most fateful moments in her 30 years of trailblazing

Neuer, at the German National Library, believes a library’s mission “to record everything without fear or favor” is essential to democratic society.

UConn Magazine: What a Library Can Do

A music major at UConn, Johannes Neuer ’00 MM now lives in Leipzig, Germany, safeguarding a nation’s memories

Saunders created this chupacabra puppet head for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2022.

UConn Magazine: Unmasked

How a UConn puppeteer went from being the beer guy at Whole Foods to creating animatronics for the biggest theme parks, robotics for cinematic superheroes, and crazy-clever costumes for Masked Singers