This week, we learn from Philosophy Prof. Mitchell Green how to “know thyself,” meet globetrotting fitness journalist Emily Abbate ’10 CLAS, and welcome special guest Graham Stinnett, curator of Human Rights Collections and Alternative Press Collections in Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, who introduces us to some cults from […]
This week, we take a reflective look at the Mirror Lake swing and its related anonymous journal; hear from Prof. Kenneth Fuchs about his new classical music works; and learn what happened at UConn when Hurricane Gloria came through.
This week we meet UConn alum David Wollner ’82 and learn about the thriving business he created from scratch; check in with Political Science Prof. David Yalof on the Supreme Court vacancy; and learn how parents in the 1940s got the scoop on what their children were doing at UConn.
This week we meet the founders of the UConn Film Club, dive into the 20th anniversary edition of the Long River Review, and travel back to 1980 to see how UConn reacted to a Klan rally in eastern Connecticut.
This week we talk with Nick Zaharias ’85 (CLAS), whose multiple claims to fame include a very muddy one; learn from Political Science Prof. Brian Waddell about the differences between what people think the government does and what the government actually does; and relive the night in 1941 when a visiting basketball coach sparked a […]
This week, we speak with UConn English Professor Pamela Bedore about the world’s most famous detective, learn about the intricacies of literary translation from Peter Constantine at the Humanities Institute, and learn about what we were called before we were called Huskies.
This week, we travel to Italy and Austria with the UConn Concert Choir, learn life lessons from legendary Professor Emeritus Dick Kochanek, and find out what happened when McCarthyism came to campus in the 1950s. Thanks to Emily Lattanzi for the great photo of Jamie Spillane leading the Concert Choir during a mass in Salzburg, […]
Join us this week as we talk to Prof. Robert Thorson about his new guide to the Walden of Henry David Thoreau and A Dime Back’s Tyler Wilkinson about what it’s like to cover UConn sports as a fan. We also delve into the history of UConn’s mascot, and solve a decades-old mystery about the […]