{"id":101559,"date":"2015-04-15T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=101559"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:59:19","slug":"uconn-showcase-at-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/04\/uconn-showcase-at-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Showcase at the Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a video of the event, including a ‘halftime speech’ by Geno Auriemma urging lawmakers to continue supporting UConn, go to the CT-N website<\/a>. “We should not apologize for trying to be great,” Auriemma said.<\/p>\n

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\"President<\/a>
President Susan Herbst speaks at a USG-hosted event to urge lawmakers to support UConn’s budget at the State Capitol. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Women's<\/a>
Women’s Basketball Head Coach Geno Auriemma speaks at the event at the Old Judiciary Room at the State Capitol on April 14. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Molly<\/a>
UConn senior Molly Rockett ’15 (CLAS) addresses the audience\u00a0at the State Capitol. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"State<\/a>
State Sen. Kevin Witkos, center, speaks with William Pizzuto, director of the Waterbury and Torrington campuses, and students from those campuses at the event at the State Capitol. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alexandra<\/a>
Alexandra Merkouriou ’15 (ENG) blows nitrogen vapor from a pan chilling marshmallows during the event. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rosse<\/a>
Rosse Gates ’16 (ENG), right, demonstrates an autonomously controlled quadcopter he built with a grant from the UConn IDEA program, as\u00a0Zane Grady ’17 (ENG), left, Jake Lampron ’16 (ENG), and Kevin Yong ’16 (ENG) look on. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A USG-hosted event at the State Capitol Tuesday showcased \u200eUConn\u202c programs and urged lawmakers to support the University’s budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":101565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-101559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 11:46:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101636,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101559\/revisions\/101636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/101565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101559"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=101559"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=101559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}