Author: Daniela Doncel

Daniela Doncel is currently a student at the University of Connecticut studying journalism and French. She is the news director at WHUS Radio, the editorial director of the UConn chapter of Spoon University (a food blog) and the president of the UConn Coalition of Writers.

MTV’s Decoded Franchesca Ramsey chats with us on WHUS airwaves | Live Interview

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On Mon­day, March 4th, actress and video blog­ger Franch­esca Ram­sey took the stage in the Stu­dent Union The­atre to dis­cuss her career online and her activism. Before the event, Daniela Don­cel got the chance to speak with Ram­sey on the air. This inter­view was broad­cast live on March 4 around 4:00 p.m.

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How print magazines are staying relevant in digital age

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By DANIELA DONCEL Decem­ber 11, 2018 The online uni­verse is gain­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty fast and all indus­tries are jump­ing on the train before it is too late, includ­ing the mag­a­zine indus­try. The print pub­li­ca­tion, how­ev­er, will not be left behind. With the indus­try in a state of flux, the con­ver­sa­tions about what’s great and not so great […]

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Impacts of climate change on plants throughout South Africa | UConn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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by Daniela Don­cel | Decem­ber 14, 2017 | UConn Jour­nal­ism and Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Course  Tan­isha Williams is a Ph.D. can­di­date in Ecol­o­gy and Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut who has felt the dam­ag­ing effects of cli­mate change with her research in South Africa. In the Cape Floris­tic Region of South Africa, Williams uses […]

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UConn College Democrats host “intellectual alternative” to conservative Ben Shapiro

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by Daniela Don­cel | Jan­u­ary 29, 2018 | WHUS Radio, News Direc­tor and Reporter In an alter­na­tive event to the antic­i­pat­ed speech of Ben Shapiro host­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut Col­lege Democ­rats Wednes­day night, Nathan J. Robin­son called for an hon­est con­ver­sa­tion rather than a sup­pres­sion of con­ser­v­a­tive views after describ­ing Shapiro’s work as “rid­dled […]

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Students march, demand for action from UConn President Susan Herbst

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by Daniela Don­cel | Decem­ber 4, 2017 | WHUS Radio, News Reporter STORRS — Over 100 Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut stu­dents and fac­ul­ty marched Fri­day to protest the event “It’s Okay to Be White” host­ed by UConn’s Col­lege Repub­li­cans and to state their list of demands for the uni­ver­si­ty. With speak­ers of dif­fer­ent back­grounds to share their sto­ries and […]

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Suicide prevention week encourages human connection with keynote speaker

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by Daniela Don­cel | Sep­tem­ber 27, 2017 | WHUS Radio, News Reporter STORRS — Sui­cide Pre­ven­tion Week Keynote Speak­er Jamie Tworkows­ki says human con­nec­tion and inter­ac­tion is impor­tant in pre­vent­ing sui­cide when at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut’s Jor­gensen Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts on Wednes­day night. Tworkows­ki is the founder of To Write Love on her Arms (TWLOHA), […]

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Grille 86: A new home for sports fans, will open in Storrs

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by Daniela Don­cel | Feb­ru­ary 21, 2017 | The Dai­ly Cam­pus, Cam­pus Cor­re­spon­dent Grille 86, a new Amer­i­can restau­rant, will soon open in Storrs Cen­ter offer­ing a new loca­tion for fresh food and sport­ing event view­ings for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut com­mu­ni­ty and beyond. The restau­rant was orig­i­nal­ly set to open in the hol­i­day sea­son of 2016 […]

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The uncertain future of Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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by Daniela Don­cel | Novem­ber 27, 2017 | UConn Jour­nal­ism News-writ­ing Course  Ital­ian Amer­i­can Pride Tiffany Pasqua is a proud third gen­er­a­tion Ital­ian Amer­i­can of the island of Sici­ly and a firm believ­er that the Unit­ed States fed­er­al hol­i­day Colum­bus Day should be abol­ished. “I have Ital­ian pride every­day of the year,” Pasqua said, “but I don’t know […]

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