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Graduating Sandy Hook survivor looks back and ahead
As Lenie Urbina graduated from UConn, her mind slipped to the Sandy Hook students and staff members who were killed in 2012 in a tragedy that shocked the nation. Lenie was a 4th grader hiding in the gym supply closet.
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Opinion: Federal cuts could snip away your local park
As the Trump Administration continues to make deep cuts to federal programs that support parks, I have begun to wonder what will I do if my main connection to nature is severed?
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Students still facing academic and mental health challenges post-COVID
The pandemic’s toll on student engagement continues to reverberate across campuses nationwide.
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Opinion: In Defense of the Dandelion
Through a desire to keep neighborhoods as idyllic as the ones in those advertising images, suburban homeowners came to despise the dandelion. But these little yellow flowers have a lot to offer us.
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How CT nursing home staff work to reduce social isolation
The job for retirement home staffers is to become like a family to the residents. For some people, coming into a retirement home is their first time living alone.
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FOI at 50: Connecticut’s landmark transparency law
As Connecticut’s landmark transparency law marks its 50th anniversary this year, its legacy as a model for open government continues.
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Connecticut’s new college grads contemplate uncertain economy
Amid federal cuts and fears of a recession, many new college grads worry about the economy they are heading into.
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More Schools Add Limits on Student Device Use
School officials throughout southeastern Connecticut are seeking ways to prevent students from focusing too much in-school time on their cell phones.
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The Surprising Way Book Clubs Fight Loneliness
Book clubs are more than just literary discussions once a month. They give connection at a time when loneliness and social isolation are seen as public health crises.
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UConn’s main campus gets early voting location
UConn Bookstore will open an early voting site on Oct. 21 in an effort to focus on the age group that has consistently exercised its right to vote the least: young Americans.
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Meet the people behind the curtain on Election Day
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.
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‘Lone Soldier’
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…
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Tailor made
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…
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Penny’s Place
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…
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Eclipsing on Horsebarn Hill
People gather at Horsebarn Hill at the University of Connecticut to view the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Photo by Katherine Jimenez ’24
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Back-to-back national champs
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
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Bianca’s second home
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
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Fast fashion lures shoppers, difficult to avoid
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.
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Securing the Big East season
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