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Board Passes Fiscal Year 2011 Budget
The University's state support has remained roughly the same since FY08.
June 10, 2010 | Michael Kirk
Grounded!
Participants in a class sponsored by UConn's Connecticut Transportation Institute learn how to safely fell a tree. The tree was scheduled for removal by UConn Facilities. Photo by Chris LaRosa
June 10, 2010 | Christopher LaRosa
Sea Grant Awards First Arts Grant to Branford Artist
The Connecticut Sea Grant program at the University of Connecticut will award its first Arts Grant to artist Debbie Hesse of Branford. Hesse will use the $1,000 grant to create a large-scale wall installation and a limited edition artist’s book depicting seaweed in and out of its habitat. “The new grant program is intended to […]
June 9, 2010 | Combined Reports
UConn Mourns the Loss of Internationally-Renowned Puppeteer Frank Ballard
“A puppet is the artist’s soul set free.” – Frank Ballard (1929-2010) Internationally-renowned puppeteer, Frank Willard Ballard of Storrs, for whom the University of Connecticut’s Ballard Institute and Connecticut Museum of Puppetry is named, died June 4, after a decades-long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 80. Ballard is credited with introducing the art of […]
June 9, 2010 | Combined Reports
UConn Joins International Network of Research Universities
The University of Connecticut has been elected to membership in Universitas 21, an international network of leading research-intensive universities in 13 countries. UConn is only the second U.S. university invited into the network, which comprises some of the world’s major institutions of higher education, including the University of Virginia, the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), […]
June 9, 2010 | Combined Reports
UConn Joins Universitas 21
UConn is the second U.S. institution elected to this international network of research universities.
June 9, 2010 | Karen Grava
In Memoriam Frank Willard Ballard, June 4, 2010
Frank Willard Ballard, internationally renowned puppeteer, died on June 4 after a decades-long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 80. Born in Alton, Ill., he discovered a fascination for his craft at age five when his Aunt Margaret took him to a puppet show. That experience started a life-long passion with the theater and the […]
June 8, 2010 | Combined Reports
Space Odyssey
Astronaut Richard Mastracchio '82 ENG, left, stands with a group holding a UConn-themed pennant he recently took to the International Space Station on the shuttle Discovery. Photo by Peter Morenus
June 8, 2010 | Peter Morenus
UConn Researchers Convert Stem Cells into Cartilage
The ultimate goal is to grow cartilage in a lab that can be used to repair human joints.
June 8, 2010 | David Bauman
Best Season in UConn Baseball History Comes to an End
The Huskies, NCAA regional tournament hosts, lost to Oregon in the first round.
June 7, 2010 | Kenneth Best