Author Archive
Mitigating Climate Change Extinction
Mitigating Climate Change Extinction Can mapping the big picture pinpoint the most fragile futures? UConn ecology and evolutionary biology professor Mark Urban has crunched the numbers – again – and the results are even clearer: For every degree that global temperatures rise, more species will become extinct. Published in the journal Science in December 2024, […]
UConn Magazine: Waxing Entrepreneurial
For Michelle Wax ‘12 (BUS), happiness means embracing the pivot
UConn Magazine: Paper Work
As the university archivist at Eastern Connecticut State University, Tara Ludlow Hurt ’94 (CLAS) does the dirty work of rescuing centuries-old documents for posterity
UConn Magazine: Who Tells Our (Pandemic) Story
Too often history is written by the powerful. A UConn anthropologist made sure the story of COVID-19 was chronicled by the rest of us
UConn Magazine: Seeking “Smart with Heart” at Pixar
Eunice Omega says the coolest thing about working at Pixar is the impact
UConn Magazine: Eat Your Words
English Professor Emerita Lynn Z. Bloom goes deep on recipes and shares her own, for the best blueberry pie
UConn Magazine: Out of the Minds of Babes
Cute kids, brilliant scientists, and exciting trips bring joy for Amanda Yagan ’21 (CLAS) at the Advanced Baby Imaging Lab.
UConn Magazine: Giants Among Us
The first lesson imparted by Frank Costigliola as we motor and meander around his 195-acre farm a few miles from campus in Storrs is his secret to balancing research, writing, teaching, and farming: a carefully calibrated system of napping.
Why Social Work is Political, and How it Matters for Democracy
Tanya Rhodes Smith of the School of Social Work talks about elections, health, and why policymakers should seek insight from social workers