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UConn Names Thomas C. Katsouleas as 16th President

UConn’s Board of Trustees unanimously confirmed the appointment, capping a highly competitive six-month national search. His term as president begins Aug. 1. Read more.

Thomas C. Katsouleas. (Bret Eckhardt/UConn Photo)

A Conversation with UConn’s President Designate

Get to know Thomas C. Katsouleas, a leading plasma scientist and engineer with deep academic roots in teaching and research, who will be the 16th president of the University of Connecticut. Read more.

Cal Miller-Stevens, left, and her niece Capri Frank pose for a photo inside the store at Miller Foods Inc., a fourth-generation, family-owned and operated food business located in Avon, Connecticut. Behind them is a photo taken in the early 1960s, in the same location. From left is family matriarch Margaret 'Oma' Miller and her two daughters, Sandi Trudeau (Frank’s mother) and Miller-Stevens. (Nathan Oldham/UConn Photo)

Generation 2.0: Growing the Family Business

Family businesses face a unique set of issues, a fact that is recognized by the UConn School of Business, which revamped and re-introduced its program for family entities a year ago. Read more.

An illustration, published opposite the title page in 'Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown,' depicts Brown emerging from the box he rode in for 27 hours between Richmond, Virginia, and Philadelphia in 1849. (Image courtesy of Martha Cutter)

The Slave Who Mailed Himself to Freedom

English professor Martha Cutter’s National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project will examine representations of anti-slavery activism and the life of a slave who shipped himself out of slavery. Read more.

Professor Tom Long gives a lecture in the Widmer Wing of the School of Nursing. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Writing to Learn, Learning to Write

Tom Long, writer-in-residence in the School of Nursing, discusses how he helps nursing students, faculty, scholars, and clinicians become better writers. Read more.