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 Maya A. Moore, UConn Journalism | April 26, 2019 Veteran journalist Stan Simpson is skilled in the art of people, a characteristic that undoubtedly rings true when watching the host of Fox 61’s Real People with Stan Simpson on Sunday mornings. He welcomes viewers with his signature “Alright folks,” in a resounding voice and wide
By Sydney Mazur, UConn Journalism April 19, 2019 Meet Carlos Virgen, the digital news director at The Day in New London, Connecticut. He is not your traditional journalist. Originally from California, Virgen studied graphic design and worked in a law firm until one day a friend who published a Los Angeles independent alt-weekly hired him
By Abigail Brone, UConn Journalism April 12, 2019 Tom Maroney never planned to work as a journalist, he just liked telling stories and using a camera to do so. Maroney, a New York native, has worked as a cameraman at Fox 61 news for a decade. “As college students tend to do, I took a
By Sean Boyle | UConn Journalism | April 5, 2019 Growing up, WNPR’s Frankie Graziano always dreamed of covering sports and never wavered in his determination to become a reporter. Along the way, Graziano realized that his passion for covering sporting events was rooted in the personal stories he got to share and the relationships forged with sources and
By Maya A. Moore ‘19 | UConn Journalism | March 29, 2019 Claire Smith credits her mother’s infectious love of the baseball and the enduring story of Jackie and Rachel Robinson with inspiring her 37-year-long career as a sports journalist. “I always knew that baseball was a passion, from childhood,” she said. “I just fell in
In Spring 2018, a team of UConn Journalism students asked four Connecticut journalists how the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting changed the way they cover gun violence and the gun control debate. We talked with reporters Jenn Bernstein and Matthew Kauffman, editorial page editor Jacqueline Smith and columnist Susan Campbell. Mass shootings had happened
By Abigail Brone | March 8, 2019 Matt DeRienzo began working as a journalist the day after his eighteenth birthday. “I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper in Maine about a drunk driver that hit and killed a friend of mine’s mother. I argued the bar that served the driver should
Marciano is the bureau chief of Connecticut Law Tribune
In this edition of our ‘Behind the Stories’ podcast, UConn Journalism seniors Amanda Cabral, Madison Geerlof and Ryley McGinnis talked with the editors of three thriving hyperlocal news websites in Connecticut: Doug Hardy of CT News Junkie, Ronni Newton of We-Ha.com, and Michael Dinan of the New Canaanite. The most popular hyperlocal news sites focus on
There’s momentum in Connecticut to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Connecticut’s brand new governor, Ned Lamont, has made legalization a priority for his administration. It’s far from a done deal though. The change requires legislative approval. And there are plenty of groups in Connecticut opposed to the idea, citing concerns about people driving under the influence, youth substance