Feature Stories - Spring 2008

Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 2008

Image: Professor Baram Javidi and graduate student.

A small world with big potential
By Stefanie Dion Jones '00 (CLAS) and David McKay Wilson | Scientists at UConn are looking for ways to use little things — so small they are unseen by the naked eye and observable only through the most advanced of microscopes—to change the world in a big way. Welcome to the world of nanotechnology.

Voices in harmony
By Jim Smith | Music is a passion for the students who are part of the seven a cappella groups that perform in concert and at special campus events throughout the year with repertoires that include vocal arrangements spanning a wide range of sounds.

What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
By Gina Barreca | UConn’s humorist-in-residence dishes the
inside story of how she discovered that being funny was a better career choice than selling knock-off designer handbags on the street.

	Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 2008

		A small world with big potential By Stefanie Dion Jones '00 (CLAS) and David McKay Wilson \| Scientists at UConn are looking for ways to use little things — so small they are unseen by the naked eye and observable only through the most advanced of microscopes—to change the world in a big way. Welcome to the world of nanotechnology. Voices in harmony By Jim Smith \| Music is a passion for the students who are part of the seven a cappella groups that perform in concert and at special campus events throughout the year with repertoires that include vocal arrangements spanning a wide range of sounds. What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? By Gina Barreca \| UConn’s humorist-in-residence dishes the inside story of how she discovered that being funny was a better career choice than selling knock-off designer handbags on the street.
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