Through education, celebration, creativity, artifact reclamation, land preservation and community engagement, Connecticut's five recognized tribes—Mashantucket Pequot Mohegan, Golden Hill Paugussett, Paucatuck Eastern Pequot and Schaghticoke—are reclaiming their history and culture.
A UConn startup hopes to reduce litter by using kelp and other foods as a wrapper rather than plastic. Atlantic Sea Solutions is developing a new food packaging method based off of the common sea plant kelp with a $175,000 grant. By Dannan Page, UConn JournalismDecember 3, 2025
The UConn Senate voted to delay the requirement that all undergraduates take a course on anti-Black racism amid concerns that requiring the course would be considered discriminatory by the Trump administration.
The Connecticut Treasurer’s office is scheduled to meet this week with one of its investment funds to discuss its involvement in deportation flights run by federal ICE.
When Connecticut’s flagship resettlement agency lost $4 million in federal funding due to a Trump administration executive order, it closed offices in Hartford and New Haven.
With on-campus beds falling far short of student demand, many UConn students were forced into expensive off-campus housing, and for some, the financial and emotional burden is overwhelming.
It doesn’t matter if turnout is high – more than 1.8 million Connecticut residents in the 2020 presidential election, or low – around 741,000 voters in municipal elections last November.
The Israel-Hamas conflict through the eyes of an IDF paratrooper, who left his job as UConn Hillel’s assistant director to return to military service By LAURA AUGENBRAUN | UConn JournalismSeptember 3, 2024 Jared White explains his ‘lightbulb moment.’ It happened 20 years ago when he was sitting in a car in an empty parking lot
Joseph Grimaldi, who has owned the Manchester Tailor Shop for 60 years, says the minimum wage is not a livable income compared to when he opened his shop in 1964. Connecticut’s minimum wage was $1.25 when Grimaldi opened. Back then, Grimaldi recalled, he was able to live off the $400 a week the tailor shop
On Main Street in Manchester, a warm atmosphere welcomes guests as they enter Penny’s Place, a breakfast-and-lunch restaurant owned by Penny Braga. Braga said she has not drawn a paycheck since the business opened two years ago and has been forced to change her style of business. Braga says eight months ago, she paid servers $15
People gather at Horsebarn Hill at the University of Connecticut to view the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Photo by Katherine Jimenez ’24
UConn Men’s Basketball coach Dan Hurley yells out in excitement after winning back-to-back NCAA National Championships at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, Arizona on April 8, 2024. Photo by Evan Rodriguez ’24
Bianca Planeta is a sophomore MCB major at UConn. She spends a lot of her time in the Homer Babbidge Library on the Storrs campus. After class on Tuesdays she likes to find a quiet spot in the library to study. She’ll go until late in the evening. Photo by Juliana Bravo ’24
Glance around a mall, concert hall, or college campus and chances are you will see at least one piece of fast fashion clothing — often without even knowing it.
No. 3 UConn runs away with the win against Seton Hall with a score of 91–61 for their last home match of the season on March 3, 2024. The win secured the Big East regular season title, which is the program’s first since 1999. Photo by Skyler Kim ’24
“There’s nothing you can tell me about the system and how it operates,” says formerly incarcerated Marilynn B. Winn. “I have experienced it, I have lived it, breathed it, ate it, slept on it—I’m a part of it.”