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.
By Adam Hushin, UConn Journalism May 9, 2019 Freedom of peaceful assembly is one of the rights Americans can exercise thanks to the First Amendment. Watch this animation to understand the recipe for a successful protest or rally. Listen to an accompanying “Behind the Stories” podcast on Soundcloud to understand what goes into organizing
By Sean Boyle | UConn Journalism | May 3, 2019 A self-proclaimed “email nerd,” Hayley Tafuro (UConn Journalism ’16) is paving the way for aspiring journalists to break into the industry and rise at a major sports station. While Tafuro always knew she wanted a career covering sports, she never could have imagined reporting to
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