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From the ‘Central Park Five’ to the ‘Exonerated Five’

September 23, 2020

By Celina Daigle On the night of April 19, 1989 five young and innocent men were arrested and soon to be falsely convicted for the attack and rape of Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman jogging thro...

Lana Del Rey bends over backwards for fans with new audiobook

Ally Urban

September 21, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music, Opinion

Lana Del Rey. Oh, Lana Del Rey, elegant, cool, collected queen and master of the sultry pop scene. That’s if I can narrowly restrict her to a genre for the sake of simplicity, because her music is simply indes...

d’Archive Episode 38: Black Experience in the Arts, Louise Meriwether

Graham Stinnett

September 11, 2020

d'Archive, Featured, Podcasts, Talk

Season 4 of d'Archive kicks off with selections all semester from the Black Experience in the Art Collection, an archived series of lectures from a course taught under the same name from 1970-1994 at the Unive...

Husky Nation News: Episode 52

Kate Ariano

September 11, 2020

Featured, Husky Nation News, Podcasts

This podcast is a digital archive of the WHUS News Team broadcast which airs on 91.7 FM once a week. This episode aired on September 11, 2020. For the news, we covered the announcement of the spring seme...

The Process Episode 10 – A Conversation with Chris George of IRIS

Benedicte

August 12, 2020

Featured, Podcasts, The Process

Chris George in 1979, wearing a traditional wrap-around "wizaar" during his Peace Corps service in the Sultanate of Oman. For the last 14 years, Chris George has been the Executive Director of IRIS -- Inte...

USG leaders resign to make way for organizational change

Kate Ariano

July 13, 2020

Featured, Local News, News

The Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president have both resigned and a special election to fill these positions is to be held during the first two weeks of the semester at the University of Connecticut.

The Process Episode 09 – A Conversation with Restaurateur Andrew Gütt

Benedicte

June 20, 2020

Featured, Podcasts, The Process, Uncategorized

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From its early success serving coffee, pastries, and a small offering of lunch items, Cafémantic has been around for more than a decade and is surviving the storm that is COVID-19. At its helm is Andrew G...

UConn students support Black Lives Matter movement

Kate Ariano

June 9, 2020

Featured, Local News, News

In the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and too many other members of the black community, University of Connecticut students are using their voices to advocate for justice for the black community, including fifth-semester finance major Rita Tonleu.

Student workers demand pay through end of semester

Kate Ariano

May 25, 2020

Featured, Local News, News

Four University of Connecticut students are advocating for student workers to be paid through the end of the Spring 2020 semester, saying they believe President Thomas Katsouleas has failed to uphold the “prot...

d’Archive Episode 37: Connecticut Digital Archive

Graham Stinnett

May 21, 2020

d'Archive, Featured, Podcasts, Talk

This episode features a conversation with the repository manager for the Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA), Mike Kemezis. Mike discusses the functions of the CTDA and issues of access and discovery of digita...