At New Haven’s Sanctuary Kitchen refugees are hired to make their culture’s favorite dishes and build economic opportunities for disenfranchised people through food.
The number of ticks infected with Lyme disease is spiking early this season in Connecticut, data from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shows, as environmental conditions give ticks a chance to thrive.
Connecticut libraries are facing growing financial pressure as demand for e-books and audiobooks surges, with librarians saying they are paying significantly higher prices for digital materials they don’t permanently own.
University of Connecticut physical therapy professor Dr. Cristina Colón-Semenza aims to highlight physical therapists’ essential role in mental health at the school, state and national levels.
The story of New England’s abolitionists is often told in fragments — names, dates, movements — but rarely in full. That is what Gail Braccidiferro MacDonald set out to change with her new book, which focuses on Black abolitionists.
State officials want to identify towns interested in hosting new nuclear power plants. proponents believe nuclear power could solve anticipated energy demands from computer data centers as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At the University of Connecticut, Black students are finding community within innovative organizations that are designed to foster connections and a sense of belonging.
Bereavement leave policies – or the lack of them at colleges and universities – can force students to choose between academics and healing.
A proposed 20% cut in a state program that lets library patrons check out books from public libraries beyond their own town or city has been restored by the General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee.
UConn’s Paws to Relax program is one of several in Connecticut and many across the U.S. that are geared to college students who may be feeling the stress of taking exams or even living on campus away from their own pets.
Molly Qerim is the co-host of ESPN's 'First Take.' Sportswriter and author Karen Crouse works at The New York Times. Gabby Lucivero is a sports reporter at NBC Connecticut. These three women journalists talked with UConn Journalism students about how they found success covering the male-dominated world of sports.
In this episode of UConn Journalism’s Behind the Stories podcast, the team talked to political reporters about the challenges in covering Connecticut’s 2018 gubernatorial race. Senior journalism major Gracie Enright spoke to NBC Connecticut’s Max Reiss who explained the state’s electoral process and hurdles ahead of electing a new governor come November. Senior journalism major Caio Goncalves interviewed
Journalists encounter racism daily. Between the diversity stories that journalists report, and the diversity – or lack thereof – in newsrooms, race and racism affects journalists of color, and the people we are reporting on.
Our third “Behind the Stories” podcast featured NBC Connecticut Chief Investigative Reporter Len Besthoff, who talked with UConn Journalism’s Gracie Enright about how he discovers and covers local investigative stories. The Roundup followed how the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters team helped expose a major patient abuse scandal at the Whiting Forensic state psychiatric hospital. Besthoff, a veteran
In a special edition of UConn Journalism’s ‘Behind the Stories’ podcast, we spoke with two Hartford Courant journalists — Editorial Page Editor Carolyn Lumsden and sports writer Desmond Conner — about two prevalent topics in the news world: the #MeToo movement and the intersection of sports and politics. Carolyn Lumsden has been working for the Hartford Courant for over
In this episode of UConn Journalism’s ‘Behind the Stories’ podcast, the team analyzes the story that kept on giving during the Fall 2017 semester: the Connecticut budget battle. UConn senior Caio Goncalves spoke toCT Mirror budget reporter Keith Phaneuf, who broke down the many “hard choices” legislators had to make when it came down to eventually
By NEEL RAZDAN. Joseline Tlacomulco is an undocumented student at the University of Connecticut and an activist for immigrant rights.
A faculty-chosen group of University of Connecticut journalism majors set off in January 2017 to bring light to the food desert in Hartford, Connecticut.
What’s the role of the local press in a Donald Trump presidency?
In March 2016, five UConn Journalism students in Prof. Bob Wyss’ environmental journalism course traveled with him to Louisiana to report on the environmental challenges in Louisiana. The students — Kimberly Armstrong, Diler Haji, Nicholas Shigo, Charlie Smart and Julia Werth — learned about the mechanics of environmental beat reporting on location. They spent the