For the last 34 seasons, Chris Dailey has worked closely with Geno Auriemma to build UConn women’s basketball into the dynasty it is today. Together, they’ve won over 1,000 games, 51 conference championships, and 11 national titles. But Dailey does have one trophy that Auriemma can’t claim: a 1982 AIAW championship with the Rutgers Lady Knights. The AIAW was the predecessor to the NCAA for women’s sports and that year was the first time the NCAA sponsored a women’s basketball championship. So it was the last year of the AIAW Tournament.

Kelly Villar, 43, a mom of six who teaches second grade at Southeast Elementary School in Mansfield, was selected last June as the Iditarod’s designated “teacher on the trail,” a year-round role created in 2000 to extract educational opportunities from the fabled, 1,000-mile sled dog race. She recently served as the race’s “teacher on the trail.”

“Jordan is a great addition to our defensive staff as our linebacker coach,” said Head Coach Greg Gattuso. “Jordan worked with us two years ago and did an outstanding job for our staff, which made this an easy choice for our defensive coaches and myself.”

“I coached rowing at UConn and got my master’s in sport management,” says Strodel. “That allowed me to dabble in coaching. From there, I did go into the real world.”

“It has the potential to be awesome, but not this way,” said Michael Young, a University of Connecticut professor who specializes in education technology.

As COVID-19 continues to alter social and economic landscapes around the world, some are more immediately impacted than others.

Former Major League Baseball player Doug Glanville now teaches a class in the Neag School of Education.

“Thanks to the coronavirus, my third-grade twins are home all day for the foreseeable future,” says Jennie Weiner. “I’m not going to recreate school for them.”

“The younger the children are, the less you can even expect them to self-regulate and it’s up to the parents to kind of structure the time,” said Michael F. Young, a professor a UConn’s Neag School of Education who researches the effects of instructional technology.

“I recognized that my experience as a student, and my race and my gender, all came together in how I experienced my academics and my campus climate,” says Clewiston Challenger, now an assistant professor of counselor education at the Neag School.