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08/21/2026

Earlier this week we enjoyed a presentation as part of our Research Grants and Fellowships Summer Colloquia showcasing the research of 2026 Billie M. Levy Fellow, Haley Zovickian, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Southern California.

Zovickian gave an informal presentation on her research in Sociology, Middle Eastern-Armenian studies, and literature on race and ethnicity in the Dodd Center Public Lounge.

Here is a brief description from Zovickian's fellowship proposal:

Using the University’s oral history archives, I will examine the self-perception of Ottoman-born Armenian Americans, particularly how the logics of Ottoman ethno-social organization may persist transnationally in a diasporic context.

Additionally, I will examine Nonny Hogrogian’s work through frameworks of Armenian joy, Armenian futurity, and intergenerational knowledge transmission. I am especially interested in how Hogrogian’s storytelling imparts culturally specific moral lessons, particularly in the backdrop of denied mass violence.

I see both projects as crucial for drawing out the enduring legacies of mass violence on communities and the ability of intergenerational knowledge to reimagine and uplift descendants’ futures.

08/20/2026

Both the Men's and the Women's Soccer teams are playing TODAY at Morrone Stadium! The Men play Syracuse at 5:00; the Women play Rutgers at 7:30.

Here we see the 1948 UConn Men's Soccer team and a scene from a 2024 Women's game at Morrone Stadium, playing DePaul, winning 3-1.

08/19/2026

One of the worst natural disasters that Connecticut ever endured was the Floods of 1955. In mid-August, two back-to-back hurricanes brought from 10 to 20 inches of rain to various parts of the state, with the worse of it affecting the Still River in Winsted and the Connecticut, Farmington and Naugatuck Rivers, all of which overflowed their banks by up to 35 feet. Eighty-seven people died from the flooding and property damage was more than $200 million.

The damage was extensive: almost 700 homes destroyed with thousands more suffering significant damage; over 500 industries with damage to factories, machinery and materials; over 900 farms with combined losses of $2.5 million, and extensive property damage.

The New Haven Railroad, the main railroad in the state, suffered extensive damage to its bridges, tracks, engines and cars, railyards, stations and other facilities. More flooding two months later compounded the damage, which was estimated at $17 million.

Here we see damage to the railroad in Waterbury, Naugatuck and West Cornwall, Connecticut.

07/22/2026

The UConn Library staff attended a presentation of our Research Grants and Fellowships Summer Colloquia showcasing the research of 2026 James Marshall Fellow, Dr. Peggy Ann Bloomer, Assistant Professor of Design, Central Connecticut State University.

Dr. Bloomer gave an informal presentation on her research in early photographic formats, artists’ book structures, and children's literature on Tuesday, July 21, in the Dodd Center.

Dr. Bloomer's proposal, titled Daguerreotypes Reimagined: Artists’ Books, Early Photographic Materiality, and the Embodied Depths of Vision

Early photographic processes such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and limited stereographs reshaped nineteenth-century visual culture by introducing new illusions of depth, tactility, and presence. Their reflective surfaces, case enclosures, and light-dependent visibility required viewers to physically engage with images, producing an embodied form of perception in which meaning emerged through material interaction.

Today, by contrast, artificial intelligence and computational imaging increasingly flatten visual experience into frictionless, immaterial streams. My project asks how contemporary artists’ books can reactivate the tactile intelligence of early photographic vision—and how nineteenth-century formats can inform new experiments in book structures and immersive media design.

07/17/2026

These striking images are from Birds of America, illustrated by James John Audubon, the famous French-American artist, ornithologist and naturalist. We have many books in the UConn Archives that show Audubon's extraordinary work.

And make some time to enjoy Big Bird Day! sponsored by the Connecticut Museum of Natural History at the Gant Science Complex on the UConn campus in Storrs TOMORROW from 1:00 to 5:00p.m. Among the many activities is a scavenger bird hunt!

You can find out more at https://events.uconn.edu/connecticut-state-museum-of-natural-history/event/2062403-csmnh-big-bird-day

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