{"id":244113,"date":"2026-04-16T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=244113"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:29:16","slug":"uconn-to-hold-memorial-service-for-students-who-have-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/04\/uconn-to-hold-memorial-service-for-students-who-have-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn To Hold Memorial Service For Students Who Have Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut will hold a memorial service for students that have passed away in the past year on Wednesday, April 22 at 3 p.m. This annual ceremony will take place in the Student Union Ballroom at UConn Storrs.<\/p>\n<p>At this service we will remember the following students:<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Frimpong, an undergraduate student in the College of Engineering at UConn Storrs<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Jade Iv, an undergraduate student in the School of Social Work at UConn Hartford<\/p>\n<p>Leeha Reddy, an undergraduate student in ACES at UConn Hartford<\/p>\n<p>Sean Riccard, a doctoral student in molecular and cell biology at UConn Storrs<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Rubin, an undergraduate student in the School of Fine Arts and School of Business at UConn Storrs<\/p>\n<p>All members of the University community are invited to join the families, friends and faculty connected with these student for a time of recognition and remembrance. The family members will be presented with a certificate of academic accomplishment to honor the effort that the students put into their studies while at UConn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Those that are not able to join in person can view a livestream at <a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.uconn.edu%2FSU331&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cmike.enright%40uconn.edu%7C5beecfc2ae0145a33daf08de9bf23ce3%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C639119661860403065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=en7FjEpNzU8gCtQcj77Sq12%2FMkjC%2FzZuGi2RkAIsddY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/s.uconn.edu\/SU331<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This annual ceremony will take place in the Student Union Ballroom at UConn Storrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":244118,"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":[1866,2226,1862,1914,1870,2235,92,2225,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-244113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr","category-clas","category-busn","category-sfa","category-ssw","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 22:16:39","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\/244113","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244119,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244113\/revisions\/244119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/244118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244113"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=244113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=244113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}