Writer
Kenneth Best
Ken Best served as editor of UCONN Magazine for 10 years. He is a co-host of the UConn 360 Podcast. He previously covered news and sports in Connecticut for The New York Times, edited the Weekend section for the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time, wrote arts and culture stories syndicated by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and was the media coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 2015 he hosted “Walking a Blues Road,” a weekly program on WHUS in Storrs based on the holdings of the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African-American Musical Culture at UConn’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. He is the author of Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Pomegranate Books).
Author Archive
Black Sea Project Discovers Unseen Medieval Ship
UConn nautical archaeologist Kroum Batchvarov says seeing the medieval shipwreck for the first time was 'a truly thrilling moment.'
November 29, 2016 | Kenneth Best
Polling Process Produced Flawed Election Predictions, Experts Say
The disappearance of landline phones, which provided information on where voters lived, was one of the factors affecting the accuracy of the polls, UConn experts said.
November 10, 2016 | Kenneth Best
Student Project Probes Role of Fear in 2016 Election
IDEA Grant recipient Raeanne Nuzzo ‘17 uses art to examine the influence of fear in the 2016 presidential election. Her posters are currently on display at the Art Building.
October 28, 2016 | Kenneth Best
HBO’s Escape Room Comes to Campus
UConn students are tackling HBO’s 'Escape the Expected,' featuring themed rooms from popular television shows 'Veep,' 'Silicon Valley,' and 'Game of Thrones.'
October 27, 2016 | Kenneth Best
‘Nuevo California’ Explores Immigration, Borders, and Building Walls
The CRT production, which opens Oct. 27, is a futuristic play that is highly relevant to today's political climate.
October 27, 2016 | Kenneth Best
New Program to Play Out at Regional Campuses
This month, the Ensemble-in-Residence Program launches a slate of performances by UConn's music ensembles at regional campuses.
October 21, 2016 | Kenneth Best
Source is Key to Credibility in Social Media Messaging
A new study shows that health information from a respected public health organization loses credibility when retweeted.
October 13, 2016 | Kenneth Best
Presidential Election: How You Process Information Determines Your Vote
Communication professor Carolyn Lin says differing styles of information processing shape either a more rational or a more emotional decision-making process that affects voters' choice.
October 11, 2016 | Carolyn Lin, Department of Communication
Stamford Race and Revolution Exhibition May Prompt Strong Reactions
UConn Stamford director Terrence Cheng says the exhibit is part of an important discussion about history, race, diversity, culture, and justice.
October 11, 2016 | Kenneth Best
Singing Shakespeare Style
“Shakespeare’s Songbook” will be performed by the UConn Collegium Musicum on Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. in the William Benton Museum of Art.
September 21, 2016 | Kenneth Best