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.
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
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
UConn Journalism major Christie Wang studied abroad in Australia during the Fall 2022 semester. She took this squid photo at Lady Elliot Island, the southernmost coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef. Christie stayed on the island for a week as part of a coral reefs conservation course. She studied marine life, corals, tidal circulation
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
Kaitlyn Yearwood (8) shouts at her team during the UConn women’s hockey team’s match against the University of Maine on Oct. 28, 2022. A goal from Maine in the third period handed UConn their fourth loss of the season. Photo by Skyler Kim ’24
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
Actor Jamie Lee Curtis holds back tears while holding a picture of her “Halloween” character at a New York Comic Con panel at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on October 8, 2022. The panel was dedicated to discussing Curtis’ four decades of experience with the “Halloween” film franchise. UConn Journalism student Sofia Sawchuk is associate
For a feature assignment in JOUR2065: Mobile Storytelling, UConn student Kelti Johnson photographed the bright colors of The Big E in Springfield, Massachusetts in September 2022. The Eastern States Exposition, as the fair is also known, is one of the top ten fairs in North America and the largest on the East Coast, representing all
Inside the managing editor’s office at The Daily Campus — UConn’s student run newspaper — a bulletin board with words of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reminds the student journalists about the press’s the pivotal role in serving democracy. Photo by Sophia Dover
By Corina Wallenta | UConn JournalismApril 25, 2022