As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, Aaron Clark began pursuing a career in sports broadcasting, but quickly discovered that all the traveling and unpredictable hours were not aspects of a lifestyle he wanted. Instead, Clark switched gears, working toward a profession that afforded a reasonable and balanced schedule for athletics, family and work […]

Accolades – below are news and notes from our alumni, faculty, staff, and students. We are proud of all the amazing accomplishments by our Neag family. If you have an accolade to share, we want to hear from you! Please send any news items (and story ideas) to shawn.kornegay@uconn.edu. PROGRAMS Husky Sport was one of 13 […]

On behalf of the Neag School of Education’s Alumni Society, we invite you to participate with the below survey. It will only take a few minutes. We will use this information to provide better communication and to better serve our alumni and frieinds. Your feedback and input is greatly appreciated. We’ll also have a drawing […]

When Alyssa Budkofsky (BS Sport Science ʼ01) listens to the student-athletes on the menʼs basketball team at Quinnipiac University describe the challenges of getting their schoolwork done while still meeting their obligations for practice, games, and travel, she is sympathetic up to a point. After all, Budkofsky, assistant athletic director for menʼs basketball academic support […]

  John Greene (MA ’67, Ph.D. ’70), a master’s student at UConn in the 1960s, was also teaching high school math at the time. One day he was walking down a hall on campus, where he saw the sign “Project Essay Grade” and he knocked on the door. Entering that door would change his course […]

Reading a good book brings so much joy and comfort to so many people. Many of us fall asleep with a good book, explore new and old interests with a good book, and engage others in debate over the merits of and ideas in a book. For many of us, reading has been a lifelong […]

The Neag School welcomes Neag alumnus Dr. Carol Ewing Garber for a presentation on “The Expressway to Health: Essentials of Exercise for (Almost) Everybody and Every Schedule” on Thursday, Feb. 9 from 4-5 pm. at the UConn, Storrs Campus. The presentation, hosted by the Neag School’s Department of Kinesiology, is free and open to the […]

Accolades – below are news and notes from our alumni, faculty, staff, and students. We are proud of all the amazing accomplishments by our Neag family. If you have an accolade to share, we want to hear from you! Please send any news items (and story ideas) to shawn.kornegay@uconn.edu. PROGRAMS/DEPARTMENTS Husky Sport was one of 13 […]

Dear Alumni and Friends of the Neag School of Education: The Neag School of Education Alumni Society and the faculty of the Neag School of Education cordially invite you to attend our 14th Annual Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the South Campus Ballroom (Rome Ballroom) on the Storrs campus. Click here for […]

Dr. Douglas Fellows ignored the recruiting calls for six months. Administrators from UConn were calling him to interview at the UConn Health Center, to lead their radiology department. He was happy where he was, as the vice chair of radiology, at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, MA. But then one day, he finally took the […]