This week, we talk to Ryan Allred ’20 Ph.D. about “phubbing”: the act of being too distracted by your phone to give your full attention to the person right in front of you. We also talk with Professor Nathanael Okpych about his book “Climbing a Broken Ladder,” which provides insight into how children in foster […]
This week, we hear from a voice that’s very familiar to Husky fans – John Tuite, the PA announcer whose booming tones are an inseparable part of the gameday experience. We also talk with Professor Sandra Chafouleas about ways parents can support their kids during the uncertainty and stress of pandemic-era schooling, and we learn […]
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This week, we speak with School of Fine Arts faculty members Cora Lynn Deibler and Earl MacDonald about the new collaborative work of animation “By Our Love”; student Tomaso Scotti tells us about what it’s like to host the My First Year Story podcast; and we learn about a bygone student tradition that is probably […]
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This week, we talk with Prof. Sharde Davis and Mason Holland ’23 (CLAS) about UConn’s newly-launched course on anti-Black racism; John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry drops by to talk about engineering and puppetry; and we learn about how the University prepared for nuclear attack at the dawn of the […]
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This week, we talk with Larry Wasiele, who created the iconic statue of Jonathan that stands proudly in front of Gampel Pavilion, and the gang looks back on a year that many of us would just as soon forget, but which was not without its high points.
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This week, we hear from Kenneth Fuchs, professor of music composition, about his new recording with the United States Coast Guard Band; Donald Pendagast ’20 MBA talks about how his Curated CT startup is helping local businesses; and we travel back to a time when a house ordered from a Sears catalog was the center […]
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Big East basketball is back! We hear from a variety of voices about the significance of UConn’s return to the conference where we became a national powerhouse; we talk to Avinoam Patt, Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, about the critical […]
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This week, we sit down with the UConn School of Law’s John Aloysius Cogan Jr. to learn about this week’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the Affordable Care Act, and we travel back to the mid-1970s to discover an iconic campus building’s original name.
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This week, History Prof. Manisha Sinha talks about the significance of the 2020 presidential election within the context of U.S. history, as part of our ongoing Brave Space series; Political Science Prof. Evan Perkoski discusses his study of the role civil society can play in preventing (or worsening) mass violence; and we learn about bygone […]
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This week, we track down a documentary about American blues legends that had long been thought lost, and learn why Spring Break was once looked forward to as a time when students could finally take off their hats.