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UConn Anti-Black racism course requirement placed on hold
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.
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Treasurer’s office to discuss investment firm’s connection with ICE flights
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.
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Suspended U.S. refugee program separates families, stalls resettlement
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.
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UConn students confront housing crunch as enrollment rises
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.
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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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UConn Remembers Sandy Hook 10 Years Later
By Meredith Veilleux | UConn Journalism
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Wig Shopping
Chasity Watkins, a 21-year-old from Hartford, is pursuing her passions as a hairstylist amid the COVID-19 pandemic. During a November 2022 shopping trip to find the perfect a wig for a client, Watkins examines the hair on a mannequin. Photo by Tanajah Fryer ’23
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Podcast: What Does the Future of Fossil Fuel Free UConn Look Like?
By Katherine Jimenez | UConn JournalismDecember 14, 2022 Colder winters and hotter summers. You better prepare for them because climate change has entered Connecticut. The University of Connecticut, along with other parts of the state, experienced a dangerous drought this summer which left many residents without water. State officials even advised residents to begin conserving water. But…
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Gig economy grows, but not gig worker salaries
By John Leahy | UConn Journalism Dec. 9, 2022 In May of 2020, Thomas Taber realized he was running out of money. The 20-year-old University of Connecticut student was living at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was ordering food consistently through online platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats. Though the country was essentially shut down,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Lady Elliot Island Squid
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…
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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…