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WHUS Battle of the Bands to feature four local groups

February 28, 2021

Announcements, Battle of the Bands, Concerts, Events, Featured, Music, News, Upcoming Event

WHUS Radio will be hosting its second annual Battle of the Bands on March 13, 2021 at 7 p.m. The event will feature local bands Bleach the Sky, Cyborg Village, Roadhog and Zebvlon. All of the bands are part of...

UConn Baseball kicked off the season in Charlottesville

The News Desk

February 24, 2021

Featured, News, Sports

By Nicholas Hellinghausen The University of Connecticut baseball team opened their season this past weekend in Charlottesville when they took on the 16th ranked University of Virginia. UConn was coming ...

Husky Nation News: Episode 65

The News Desk

February 20, 2021

Husky Nation News, 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 February 12, 2020. For the news, we covered the additional vaccine delivery to U...

UConn’s first Podcast Symposium to excite students about podcasting opportunities

The News Desk

February 18, 2021

Featured, Local News, News

By Nicholas Hellinghausen Two University of Connecticut students will be hosting a Podcast Symposium on Sunday, Feb. 21 and Monday, Feb. 22. The symposium has a hybrid structure, as some components will...

How one man lit the match to unite Husky Nation

Celina Daigle

February 15, 2021

Featured, Local News, News

Who would have thought that hardly over one month ago, a single University of Connecticut Huskies fan eating a spoon of hot sauce would become an internet sensation throughout Husky Nation? Definitely not Brya...

Professor Amanda Crawford talks misinformation and the ‘attack on democracy itself’

The News Desk

February 12, 2021

Featured, Local News, News

By Grace McFadden On Feb. 3, University of Connecticut professor of journalism Amanda Crawford gave a talk titled Misinformation & The Media: Lessons from the Sandy Hook Shooting. The talk, whic...

Liliac: The five-part family band championing vamp metal music

Ally Urban

January 28, 2021

Music, News

Liliac, the five-part family rock band hailing from California, is to vamp metal as the Mikaelson family is to vampires. All of the supernatural teen drama from the CW series “The Vampire Diaries” aside, t...

3 easy holiday crafts perfect for family FaceTimes

Ally Urban

December 23, 2020

Featured, News, Opinion

2020 has been a strange year. But just because there’s a pandemic going on doesn’t mean you can’t adapt your holiday routines and traditions to be more COVID-19 friendly. In the spirit of social distancing, ha...

HuskyTHON leaders imagine a successful marathon despite the pandemic

The News Desk

December 10, 2020

Featured, Local News, News

By Nicholas Hellinghausen This February will mark the 22nd edition of one of the largest and most anticipated events at the University of Connecticut: HuskyTHON. HuskyTHON is a yearlong fundraising camp...

INCLUDE program discussion series talks of normalizing neurodiversity

Jonathan Kopeliovich

December 7, 2020

Featured, Local News, News

Audio attribution at bottom On October 9, 2020, the University of Connecticut kicked off its Neurodiversity Fall Discussion Series with an introduction from Shawn Smith, a neurodiversity initiative consulta...