This week we get musical, with student Jesus Cortes-Sanchez, who tells us about being a DREAMer and playing clarinet on a Grammy-winning album; with Prof. Robert Stephens, who talks about social protest in the music of the Gullah people of the southeastern U.S.; and with a Daily Campus editor who had to face the music […]
This week, we talk about the trial of war criminal Ratko Mladic with Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights Predrag Dojcinovic; Julie takes us inside a class at UConn Hartford where students are learning to be mindful; and Student Alumni Association President Bryan Kirby drops by to give us all the dirt on the annual […]
This week, Prof. Scott Wallace talks about an exhibit of photographs and reports from his work as a war correspondent in Central America, student Tahj-Anthony Jean tells us how he came to become a restaurateur as the owner of Farmhouse Crepes, and we learn about how a UConn yearbook once became a flashpoint in a […]
This week, we learn from Prof. Marie Shanahan about how UConn journalism students are keeping tabs on Connecticut media; discuss a pioneering woman portraitist with Prof. Alexis Boylan; and discover that we all owe a debt to a man named Rufus.
It’s the start of a new academic year! We interview UConn students on what they hope the year brings them, learn about human rights and sustainability from Prof. Shareen Hertel, and travel back to a time when you got napkins in dining halls only if you were lucky.
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 to Political Science Prof. Evan Perkoski about terrorism and cybersecurity, learn how Kristi Kaeppel went from dropping out of high school to pursuing a PhD from the Neag School of Education, and explore some bygone UConn traditions that are probably best left in the past. Visit the “That Wasn’t on the […]
It’s time to commence! This year, something like 9,000 degrees will be awarded by UConn, including roughly 6,000 undergraduate degrees. As the Class of 2018 sets off to take their place among the Huskies Forever of the world, we talk with a group of seniors about what they love about UConn, what they’ll always remember, […]
Welcome to the first-ever episode of UConn 360! In this installment, your hosts Julie, Ken, and Tom introduce themselves and explain what on earth they hope to accomplish with this undertaking. But there’s more! Also in this episode, there is an interview with Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s Matthew Pugliese, WHUS General Manager Kailey Townsend, and a […]