Why Working During College Matters – Celebrating Labor Days

Greetings Meg here, Monday, September 3, 2012 is Labor Day and one of the holidays when UConn’s Lodewick Visitors Center is closed. For the 40 student employees and the three full-time staff it is a chance to relax after a hectic training period and before the frenetic tour fall tour season begins. During their Undergraduate […]

UConn Tour Guides Conquer Day Three of Training

Greetings Meg here, The campus tour guides were shown the new information session and practiced the campus tour route spiels as part of our third Training day. From how to introduce prospective students to UConn to hearing from various department representatives to our closing dinner with UConn Alumni, our day was fun and fact filled. […]

New Way to Tour UConn

Greetings Meg here, UConn’s Lodewick Visitors Center has grown significantly since we started back in 2000! Annually more than double the number of people take part in campus tours led by 40+ tour guides then when we first opened. Throughout the years we have revised our tour program to accommodate more visitors and to adapt […]

Startup Weekend Soars in Storrs

The next big idea may just emerge from Startup Weekend (January 27-29, 2012) in Storrs, CT, where over 130 business entrepreneurs gather to pitch ideas, form development teams, and launch prototype companies. “Over 60% of the people at Startup Storrs are UConn students” said event organizer and Board of Trustees student representative Brien Buckman (Political […]

Resolutions That You Keep

Greetings, Meg here   The Lodewick Visitors Center Colleagues participated in Spring Training on January 16, 2012. Although the day was chilly outside -  inside the LVC was warm and welcoming as the greatest student crew at UConn focused on goals for the spring semester. Our activities centered on how to tell a story that […]

UConn Alum Visits NYC

Greetings, Meg here, This Thanksgiving week I traveled to New York City to visit the 9-11 Memorial. It had been a while since I was in City’s financial district and the absence of the Twin Towers was noticeable right away. Passing the still soot covered St. Paul’s Chapel, I caught a glimpse of the new […]

UConn Double Major – Drum Major

“Step, rock, heel, knee, stop – repeat”, Kevin Mastro (7th semester Biology and Psychology majors) claps his hands together in time to the verbal cues used by UConn’s 300+ member marching band to learn new moves. Mastro has been through ‘band prep’ for four years and remembers well his first experience practicing how to march. […]

Homecoming Pageant 2011

Around UConn – September 2011

Constitution Day

  Constitution Day, held each September, encourages US citizens to honor the document on which our nation     bases its government, rights and laws. The US Constitution Center in Philadelphia manages to make the legal document exciting through interactive exhibits related to Constitutional history, efforts to pass various amendments, and points of view about the document’s […]