UConn Voices
Meet the Undergraduate Researcher: Kayvona Brown, CLAS
A McNair Scholar and community advocate with a passion for supporting survivors
March 24, 2025 | Mac Murray
A Tradition of Stewardship, A Future of Innovation: Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation’s Agricultural Leadership
Together, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and UConn Extension are building a vibrant, sustainable agricultural program to enhance food security and Tribal health
March 20, 2025 | Stacey Stearns & Shuresh Ghimire, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources & UConn Extension
UConn Law Library Exhibit Shows Alumnus’ Case Against Department of Defense
Joe Steffan donates his files to the library in hopes that those studying the case and the issue of gay rights in the future will understand how they were litigated
March 11, 2025 | Diana Nearhos
‘It’s time to tell my story’: Sociology Professor Recalls 7 Decades of Racial Reckoning
Noël Cazenave says he became aware of racism within his own family, as the aunts, uncles, and cousins on his mother's side often treated him differently because his skin color was darker than theirs
March 11, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
New Study Finds Gap in Tools Assessing Emotional Well-Being in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Emotional well-being is important for physical and mental health, but few tools exist to specifically measure it in adults and children with intellectual disabilities.
March 10, 2025 | Danielle Faipler
Humanities Project Looks at Black American Sign Language, African American English
'It’s important to unpack how systemic structures influence the way people live'
March 6, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
UConn Senior’s Organization Takes Aim at Food Insecurity
Focusing on healthy proteins for families in New Haven and Ghana
February 26, 2025 | George Velky
UConn Firsts: The First Black Student
In 1914, Alan Thacker Busby quietly made history when he became the first Black student to enroll at the school that today is the University of Connecticut
February 20, 2025 | Tom Breen
Benton Exhibit Honors Minnie Negoro, Pioneering UConn Ceramics Professor
UConn historians curated the exhibit to honor Negoro's impact on the University and her personal experience with a dark chapter of American history — the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII
February 19, 2025 | Sarah Al-Arshani
Mapping, Documenting, and Digitalizing Latin American and Caribbean Communities in Waterbury
UConn Waterbury students are forming connections with community members to create a digital library that documents the hidden stories of Latin American and Caribbean communities in Waterbury
February 19, 2025 | Melisa Argañaraz Gomez, Gabriel Blauvelt, Adriana Figueroa, Julian Lewis, and Rafael Feliciano Roman