Category: Written Work

  • Book Ban Attempts Increase in Connecticut

    By Alli­son Lemas­ter | UConn Jour­nal­ism Novem­ber 30, 2023 BROOKFIELD — As Jer­mey Far­rell ner­vous­ly stood before the Brook­field Board Edu­ca­tion on July 19, 2023, a board that over­sees his old high school, he knew the fight to keep “This Book Is Gay” acces­si­ble to stu­dents was much more than a debate with­in his home­town. Read more »  

  • Who is that behind those Cartiers?

    By Tana­jah Fry­erApril 27, 2023 HARTFORD – The first Black-owned opti­cal store in Con­necti­cut is influ­enc­ing the com­mu­ni­ty with its Carti­er glass­es. Nor­ma C. Brown is the own­er of Pro­Vi­sion CT and opened her busi­ness dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. After becom­ing the first African-Amer­i­can female licensed opti­cian in Fair­field Coun­ty, she went on to start the Read more »  

  • Pequots seek river name change to reflect native roots in eastern Connecticut 

    By Aman­da McCard | UConn Jour­nal­ism Maps, jour­nals, books–if it’s a his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ment that ref­er­ences the Thames Riv­er in New Lon­don, Con­necti­cut, chances are good that Dr. Kevin McBride has stud­ied it. He’s not just an avid riv­er enthu­si­ast or a his­to­ry buff. He’s an archae­ol­o­gist on a mis­sion, per the request of the Mashan­tuck­et Read more »  

  • Classroom Crisis: Connecticut Public Schools Face Ongoing Teacher Shortages

    By Aman­da Amer­al | UConn Jour­nal­ism “Hell on earth” is the way Leslie Blat­teau described teach­ing dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. While Blat­teau, a 15-year teach­ing vet­er­an and Pres­i­dent of the New Haven Fed­er­a­tion of Teach­ers, has remained in the pro­fes­sion, many of her col­leagues have not. Sheena Gra­ham, 2019 Con­necti­cut Teacher of the Year, who Read more »  

  • The Climate Necessity Defense: How activists are using civil disobedience to fight climate change

    By Delan Li | UConn Jour­nal­ism June 21, 2023 In 2008, Tim DeChristo­pher reg­is­tered to bid on oil and gas leas­es at the Utah Bureau of Land Man­age­ment (BLM) office and won 14 leas­es worth $1.7 mil­lion but had no inten­tion to pay for them. He claimed he did so to com­bat gov­ern­ment vio­la­tions of Read more »  

  • Students and Professors Embrace AI Writing Tools

    By Ali­cia Gomez | UConn Jour­nal­ism Alexa Udell, a third-year psy­chol­o­gy stu­dent, was hav­ing trou­ble in her sta­tis­tics class. She was used to using tools like flash­cards and notes to study for her psy­chol­o­gy exams, but she found her­self stumped on how to study for sta­tis­tics. Try­ing to fig­ure out the prac­tice prob­lems in her Read more »  

  • Connecticut activists fight for animal rights

    By Aman­da McCard | UConn Jour­nal­ism June 5, 2023 Chris­tine Cum­mings remem­bers the cold, driz­zly day last year that she saved two baby great-horned owls. The res­cue itself was rou­tine for Cum­mings, who is the pres­i­dent of A Place Called Hope, a reha­bil­i­ta­tion cen­ter for birds of prey. But the cir­cum­stances were unique: The owls’ Read more »  

  • UConn Championship Labs: Preparing and propelling NIL of student athletes

    By Han­nah Parr | UConn Jour­nal­ismMay 15, 2023 STORRS, Con­necti­cut — It has been an exhil­a­rat­ing past few months for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut men’s bas­ket­ball team. Win­ning the NCAA nation­al cham­pi­onship has ele­vat­ed the play­ers’ pop­u­lar­i­ty and social media fol­low­ings by thou­sands of fans across the coun­try. With the world of Name, Image, and Read more »  

  • Unleash your wrath in a safe space

    By Jonathan Kopeliovich | UConn Journalism So-called "rage rooms" have opened across the country, including three in Connecticut, where patrons can indulge in their desires to smash things. Read more »  

  • Love and Marriage as Fewer Americans Wed

    By Tanajah Fryer | UConn Journalism Marriage rates have declined in the U.S. Read more »