Category: Written Work

  • UConn vets exposed to burn pits welcome expanded health care benefits

    Mem­bers of the Iraq and Afghanistan Vet­er­ans of Amer­i­ca (IAVA) who say they were impact­ed by expo­sure to burn pits while serv­ing, stand to be acknowl­edged at a House Vet­er­ans’ Affairs Health Sub­com­mit­tee hear­ing in June 2018. (AP Photo/FILE/Jacquelyn Mar­tin) By Mikhael Thomp­son | UConn Jour­nal­ismDecem­ber 8, 2022 Bran­don Soto, a fresh­man biol­o­gy major at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut who joined Read more »  

  • SCOTUS action could impact college admission process

    By Car­son Swick | UConn Jour­nal­ism | Dec. 2, 2022 STORRS, Conn. — Forty-sev­en per­cent stu­dents of col­or; 26.5% of stu­dents from eth­nic back­grounds “tra­di­tion­al­ly under­rep­re­sent­ed” in high­er edu­ca­tion — Black, His­pan­ic, Hawiian/Pacific Islander, Amer­i­can Indi­an and Alaskan native stu­dents. These fig­ures rep­re­sent the stu­dents admit­ted into the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut Class of 2026, the Read more »  

  • Connecticut not likely to embrace ranked choice voting anytime soon

    By Hud­son Kam­phausen | UConn Jour­nal­ism Nov. 5, 2022  Pro­po­nents say it encour­ages more civ­il cam­paigns and oppo­nents con­tend it’s too com­pli­cat­ed — but regard­less of indi­vid­ual opin­ions about ranked choice vot­ing, one advo­cate for the sys­tem says it’s not like­ly to hap­pen in Con­necti­cut any time soon.   State Rep. Josh Elliott, a Demo­c­rat who rep­re­sents Read more »  

  • More voters shunning political parties

    By Lau­ra Mason | UConn Jour­nal­ism Nov. 5, 2022  It was 2020 and UConn stu­dent Gar­rett McGlinchey had just turned 18 when he offi­cial­ly declared him­self polit­i­cal­ly unaf­fil­i­at­ed. With an increas­ing­ly polar­ized polit­i­cal atmos­phere and an influ­en­tial par­ent in each major par­ty, McGlinchey had been cer­tain for a while that he didn’t want to align Read more »  

  • Making roads safer: it’s complicated

    By Lau­ra Mason | UConn Jour­nal­ism Oct. 30, 2022  STORRS, Conn. — It was the end of August 2022 and cars were whip­ping by Lisa’s Choco­lates and Gifts on Route 195 in Mans­field again.   Fol­low­ing ren­o­va­tions at Mans­field Ele­men­tary School and the sub­se­quent removal of a traf­fic island, the widened road now allowed cars to accel­er­ate Read more »  

  • What’s a winning strategy? GOP, Dems use different approaches

    By Car­son Swick | UConn Jour­nal­ismOct. 22, 2022  Abor­tion. Infla­tion. The econ­o­my. Threats to democ­ra­cy.  In many ways, these sim­ple yet charged terms char­ac­ter­ize both Democ­rats’ and Repub­li­cans’ approach­es to mes­sag­ing ahead of the 2022 midterm elec­tions: Hone in on spe­cif­ic “win­ning” issues while for­get­ting the incon­ve­nient ones. In what is shap­ing up to be Read more »  

  • Climate change bringing more mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases

    By LAURA AUGENBRAUN | UConn Jour­nal­ism  Jan­u­ary 18, 2022 Evan White was in his sec­ond to last lacrosse sea­son at Foran High School in Mil­ford, Con­necti­cut in spring of 2019, when sud­den­ly his team start­ed hear­ing rumors of their games being resched­uled and even can­celed. “It was actu­al­ly real­ly scary because we weren’t sure what Read more »  

  • Amid pandemic, many college students dropped out to travel, save money, pursue other career options

    Some have no plans to return to the classroom post-COVID By John Leahy | UConn Jour­nal­ismJan­u­ary 18, 2022 GLASTONBURY — Col­in O’Doherty woke up one morn­ing and had an idea. It was June 2020, and the 19-year-old col­lege stu­dent had been con­flict­ed for months. His school, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ver­mont, had announced that it would Read more »  

  • As storms worsen and sea level rises, “living shorelines” might protect Connecticut beaches

    By Ben Crnic | UConn Jour­nal­ism July 2021 Vis­i­tors to East Shore Park in New Haven aren’t able to eas­i­ly stroll along the beach there. It’s not closed. It’s being phys­i­cal­ly cut off from the rest of the park by ero­sion. Get­ting to the beach requires get­ting down a steep slope, and there’s a good Read more »  

  • Not Forgotten UConn: Rogers a civil rights pioneer at UConn

    By MAYA MOOREAugust 22, 2019Spe­cial to The Chron­i­cle STORRS — Many of the most notable events of the Civ­il Rights move­ment were still a decade in the future. Jim Crow laws reigned in the South and, in Con­necti­cut and at its flag­ship uni­ver­si­ty, racism and dis­crim­i­na­tion wasn’t as overt. But it was still preva­lent in Read more »