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FEATURES Skyzoo and Apollo Brown's "The Easy Truth" is a Labor of Love By Jesse Fairfax · September 30, 2016
Skyzoo & Apollo Brown. Photo by Robert Adam Mayer.
Having released more than 20 LPs between them since 2010, it's safe to say rapper Skyzoo and producer Apollo Brown are proficient musicians. The former, a complex wordsmith, has developed into one of hip-hop's leading MCs; the latter, an underground favorite, mixes hard drums and scratchy soul samples, becoming a go-to producer in indie hip-hop. Their collaborative album, The Easy Truth, follows the blueprint laid by Gang Starr and Pete Rock & CL Smooth, classic rapper/producer duos that specialized in pairing raw beats with no-nonsense flows. Created in response to popular demand from their shared audience, The Easy Truth eschews the current mainstream aesthetic in favor of the sound of golden age hip-hop.
Unlike the work he does with his other group, Ugly Heroes—in which all of the members are from the Midwest—Brown, a Detroit native, wanted to create a backdrop that evoked Skyzoo's New York City upbringing. "Jordan's & a Gold Chain"—the title borrows a line from a 1996 Nas song—feels like classic Wu-Tang Clan, with its hypnotic drum loop and wistful string melody. "On The Stretch & Bob Show" pays homage to the legendary New York radio show, and has the lo-fi hiss of an old-school beat tape. "I grew up where shit less cautious, more Cassius," Skyzoo rhymes. "Know the corner store so well, I could walk backwards." Brown and Skyzoo spoke with us about the inner workings of their album, how they honor their heroes, and the struggles of current New York City hip-hop.
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You two have worked together for some time now. How did The Easy Truth end up happening?
Skyzoo: It started on Twitter, believe it or not. We live in an age where the fans are able to connect with you directly and voice how they feel about your music. Apollo and I kept getting these tweets from the fans that know he does full projects with rappers, and I do full projects with producers. Everybody was saying, "Apollo, the next person you do an album with gotta be Sky" and vice-versa. It really was just about the timing, putting some time aside and having the open window to do that. Once that happened, we just went for it.
Brown: We've toured together in the past. I was on his album, Music For My Friends, as well as the Barrel Brothers album he did with Torae, and they were on my album Grandeur. The fans caught wind of the music we make together, and with the demand for an album, we decided to give the people what they want.
Given that you've both done whole albums with other producers and MCs, what would you say was different about working with each other?
Brown: I wouldn't say it's necessarily different, because I treat all of my beats like they're my kids. It's like interviewing a babysitter; I'm not gonna leave my kids with anybody without getting to know them. I have to get to know you first before I can make a whole album with you.
It was natural and organic because we already knew each other's work habits and our shared hunger for the music. It's cool to call him a friend, [and] going into the studio wasn't really new. Sky is one of my top five MCs in the game, and he's an amazing writer. He puts together words and paragraphs like no other, so watching him work firsthand is always an amazing experience.
Skyzoo: Production wise, [Apollo's beats] are dirty and gritty. 9th Wonder's stuff was dirty as well, as far as the old school hip-hop feel with beats and loops [Skyzoo collaborated with 9th Wonder on Cloud 9: The 3 Day High – ed.], but with Apollo it's real gritty. It's been a while since I had been on something like that.
All my music has the aesthetics of the hip-hop we know, love, and grew up on—from the drums to the loops and samples. But I like to add musical elements to it. I'll bring in the trumpets, string sections, tubas, and Fender Rhodes. On this album, there's really none of that. I think I put trumpets on three records, but that was it. Compared to the projects I've done recently, this one scales back, but that doesn't mean there's a lack of quality.
The Easy Truth is indeed soulful, straightforward, and traditional, with a cinematic feel to it. What were you two trying to convey both lyrically and with the sound of this album?
Brown: You mentioned it being straightforward, that's kind of what I go for—without any gimmicks, extras or tricks. With the beats, I wanted to take Sky out of his comfort zone and make him uncomfortable. He made me uncomfortable as well, if you're familiar with my work, there's music on this album that's not necessarily what Apollo Brown does all the time. I'm not really big on using the 808 drum kit, but I broke it out for this album to reward Skyzoo with more of a New York street sound. At the same time, I wanted to give him more of the minimal sound that I'm used to; he's not used to spitting over dirty, dingy, drumless tracks that let the MC breathe.
Skyzoo: The rapping is the stuff that people have come to know and love me for—stuff like lyricism, storytelling, speaking on how I grew up, and how my childhood translates into adulthood. But with this one, I spoke on certain topics more than I ever have, like police brutality on "One In The Same" and "Jordans & A Gold Chain," and gentrification on "The Vibes." There are moments where I'm directly speaking on these things and blatantly calling them out.
To me, it's just a sign of the times with everything that's going on. When I was putting this album together, every time you turned on the news, you'd see somebody get laid down in the streets that looked like me. Every time I'd open a newspaper or go on Twitter, you'd see another one who looks just like me, sounds like me, that could have been me laid down in the streets by police. All of that resonated and hit home.
I'm from Bed-Stuy, and I still live there. For me, not a day goes by where there's not police presence in my neighborhood. Literally not a single day goes by—whether they're riding down the same block 30 times in a 30-minute span, or they're posted up in front of the building just standing there. I used this project as an outlet to speak on that, because it is affecting this country at the moment.
There is a new energy in the pen on this one because of what was going on. It's more blatant. But at the same time, there's a lot of hidden meanings, double entendres everywhere, and the lyricism that people want from me. But I'm using those moments to speak directly on [current events] and the way they affect me and my neighborhood.
You just spoke of how sharp your wordplay and lyricism are on every album. Do you ever worry your intricacy could go over people's heads, or do you just write for your core audience?
Skyzoo: A little bit of both. I take it into consideration when I'm writing, because you have to think from a business standpoint as far as what consumers gravitate to. But at the same time, I make music designed to last forever, and I feel like the music that's understood and easily digested right now is the music that doesn't matter five years from now.
[With albums] like Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt and Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, you're still breaking them down and celebrating them 20 years later. We're still getting things from that music and pulling from it. The music is still serving you. You really got that $9.99 worth, and with my music, I want to do the same thing.
So I take it into consideration at times, but it doesn't make me change my approach to writing. I'm not trying to outsmart the listener, I'm just trying to make them listen even deeper—feel a deeper connection and pay attention, as opposed to it just being background music. I want to be foreground music, where you're grabbing something from it because you relate to it.
A lot of your songs actually pay homage to your heroes. Why do you consider that important?
Skyzoo: Jay, Nas, Big, Scarface and Andre 3000 did a lot for me as an MC growing up, so I want to continue that legacy. They say "Give the flowers while someone can still smell them," and on top of that I'm still a fan. No matter how many records I've put out, or how many accolades I've been blessed to receive, I'm always gonna be a fan first. I'm always gonna get excited when I hear one of my favorite MCs is dropping new music, break it down with a fine-toothed comb, get excited if they killed it, be a little disappointed if they didn't, and wish that I had the instrumentals so that I could tear it up as well. I'm still the same guy I was at 13, listening to Hot 97 and hearing all of my favorites.
Speaking of the radio, "On The Stretch & Bob Show" is a tribute to underground radio pioneers Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia. Tell me about the concept of that song.
Brown: That was definitely Skyzoo's idea; I rolled with it because I thought it was dope. Stretch & Bobbito's radio show in the '90s was amazing. I think every MC that's come up in New York that knew anything about that show would have loved to be on it, so why not recreate it?
I went through hours and hours of the show's audio trying to find pieces that I could put together to create a faux interview. I finally found clips that worked, and in the meantime, I got to learn a lot because I'm from Michigan. I always knew about Stretch & Bobbito, but I never really delved deep into the show until now. I learned to appreciate and definitely respect what they did back then.
That was a fun record to make. It was challenging, and it sounds different from any other record on the album. It sounds hazy, and there's a lo-fi quality to it. If people say it sounds like it isn't mixed and mastered, it's supposed to sound like it's on the radio. But it came out dope, I love that track.
Skyzoo: That's one of my favorite records on the project. It's a concept that I came up with upon seeing their documentary [Radio That Changed Lives]. I grew up on the second half of Stretch & Bob's run on Hot 97, when they were at Columbia University, I was young. I was maybe 11 or 12, I wasn't listening to college radio [Thursday nights at 1 a.m.].
You had school the next day.
Skyzoo: You didn't even know college radio existed when there was no internet. I knew their legend and what they were able to do for the game, and the documentary brought it all home even more. That made me say, "I wish I was around for that era at 25 or 30 years old to go up there and get busy."
Then I realized we have this thing called the Internet, where you can chop some things up and make it feel like that. I went to Apollo with the concept and I told him to watch the documentary first. I told him I wanted it to sound like they interviewed me, then I went off for 50 or 100 bars.
Having grown up loving hip-hop as a native New Yorker, what are your thoughts on the city not having a star that sounds authentic in 2016?
Skyzoo: It's rough, because it is something that you want. I'm a huge basketball fan, and it's kind of like in the NBA, you ask how the New York team has no relevance. Back when the Knicks were doing really bad years ago and we didn't have Carmelo Anthony, it was like "How is New York gonna have a basketball team that doesn't matter?"
With this being the birthplace, the home and the root of it all, as a New Yorker, you want one of your own to be one of the winners whether you make music or not. When you're looking at Drake, Kendrick, J. Cole and whoever else, you want one of the guys sitting there with them to be from the city.
We deal with the age old idea of New York losing its identity, and in the mainstream sense, that may be true. But with the internet, there's a ton of New Yorkers who get busy and keep the identity of the city. As a fan, all you gotta do is go look for it, find it online and enjoy it.
On various Sundays, you'll mention classic jazz albums that you're into on social media. With you using such a diverse array of flows and cadences, is it safe to say you use your voice as an MC in synchrony with beats the way jazz musicians operate?
Skyzoo: I definitely try to. That's definitely the goal in what I try to do, so hearing you say that means that I'm accomplishing that goal and I appreciate that. That comes from being a jazz head like you said. I listen to more jazz than hip-hop in the crib, driving or walking down the street.
I guess subliminally I'm taking in all of that every time I listen to Miles, Coltrane, Wayne Shorter or Horace Silver. I'm taking those elements of the musicianship and implementing them in the music, and it comes through whether it's on purpose or not. I don't sit and try to come up with melodies, but when I write, it makes me tackle the beat a certain way. Subconsciously, it's coming from the jazz inspiration and that stuff sitting in my ears for so long.
A lot of your songs' themes deal with you trying to define success for yourself. How do you define success at this stage of your careers?
Skyzoo: For me, success is being happy with what you've achieved. I always feel it's in the eye of the beholder, and it's different for everyone. We all want to be financially straight and able to say, "I made x amount of dollars, I'm good. That was a successful project and tour." I definitely want that. But along with that, I want to be able to make music that people care about. If I was born and raised in this current era, maybe it would be different. But I'm from an era where you gotta be able to look in the mirror after you made music and be proud of what you see and hear.
When I look back at older projects, like The Salvation, A Dream Deferred, Live From The Tape Deck and The Great Debater, they've been out for years, and people still talk about them. They talk about how the music changed their lives, and they still listen to it, even though it came out five or six years ago. That's success to me, it means I'm honing in with these people. Years from now, people will be able to say, "He did something that impacted where, who and how we are as people."
Brown: Success for me is being able to make an impact on hip-hop. If I stopped making music right now and disappeared into the sunset, I would just want to know that I touched people, that I allowed them to forget things or remember things with my music. I would want to know that my work could stay alive for eternity. But also, success for me is having an amazing home life with a family and being around people that love you unconditionally no matter what. It's not necessarily a monetary thing or about fame for me.
What's your ultimate vision?
Brown: Inspiration is everywhere. When you look out the window, when you're feeding your kids, when you take your lady to the movies, listening to music and while driving. I can look at things, hear things, smell things and get inspired to make good music. My ultimate vision is to stay consistent in making music that people can feel and relate to. Consistency leads to longevity in this industry.
Skyzoo: The hunger is there 1,000 percent. I feel underrated no matter what I accomplish in what I've been blessed to do. No matter how many people champion me, I still feel like there's more to go. You can win a championship, take two months to go on vacation, then come back and get in the gym to shoot 1,000 jumpers a day. There's another season next year and you gotta get that ring, too.
—Jesse Fairfax
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A three-member Mobile Education Team (MET) comprised of retired Captains Tim Doorey, Pete Smith, and Julio Gutierrez, conducted the five-day course at the Naval Command and Staff College (SESKOAL) in Jakarta, Indonesia from 29 April to 5 May. They presented a comprehensive course consisting of 45 modules on "Building Human Capital for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)" to 135 Indonesian and foreign exchange officers.
The participants were engaged and attentive throughout the course and expressed interest in receiving additional MDA education and training from the CCMR team. As a result, SESKOAL will explore sending ten SESKOAL graduates and four escorts officers to CCMR's December in-residence "Civil-Military Approaches to Maritime Security" course.
This was the second time CCMR's Maritime Security Program delivered a course at SESKOAL. In September 2016, another 3-member mobile team delivered a scaled-down version of its in-residence "Civil-Military Approaches to Maritime Security" course, a testament to the Maritime Security program's growing success.
The Maritime Security Program is expanding its scope both internationally (sending mobile education teams) and in CONUS (hosting five, two-week, in-resident courses every year). Program Manager Tim Doorey continues to network with COCOM, Component, Security Cooperation Officers, and Partner Nation counterparts, while expanding an impressive group of subject matter experts (SMEs).
Looking to the future, he intends to expand efforts to build capacity in partner governments through tailored training and education. The Maritime Security program emphasizes interagency, multinational, and regional approaches; however, the crucial aspect of the program will always remain developing the human capital of partner nations. In July, CCMR will conduct its Asia-Pacific Regional Maritime Security course. Currently, sixteen instructors are scheduled to teach the course which will have participants from ten countries.


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The microbes in human bile are closely related to gallbladder health and other potential disorders. Although the bile microbial community has been investigated by recent studies using amplicon or metagenomic sequencing technologies, the genomic information of the microbial species resident in bile is rarely reported. Herein, we isolated 138 bacterial colonies from the fresh bile specimens of four cholecystitis patients using a culturome approach and genomically characterized 35 non-redundant strains using whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The bile bacterial isolates spanned 3 classes, 6 orders, 10 families, and 14 genera, of which the members of Enterococcus, Escherichia–Shigella, Lysinibacillus, and Enterobacter frequently appeared. Genomic analysis identified three species, including Providencia sp. D135, Psychrobacter sp. D093, and Vibrio sp. D074, which are not represented in existing reference genome databases. Based on the genome data, the functional capacity between bile and gut isolates was compared. The bile strains encoded 5,488 KEGG orthologs, of which 4.9% were specific to the gut strains, including the enzymes involved in biofilm formation, two-component systems, and quorum-sensing pathways. A total of 472 antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) were identified from the bile genomes including multidrug resistance proteins (42.6%), fluoroquinolone resistance proteins (12.3%), aminoglycoside resistance proteins (9.1%), and β-lactamase (7.2%). Moreover, in vitro experiments showed that some bile bacteria have the capabilities for bile salt deconjugation or biotransformation (of primary bile acids into secondary bile acids). Although the physiological or pathological significance of these bacteria needs further exploration, our works expanded knowledge about the genome, diversity, and function of human bile bacteria.
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Prior to his assignment at the CIA, he served as Vice Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and as the first commander of the Joint Task Force Computer Network Defense. General Campbell served around the world in a variety of operational assignments as an F-15 and F-16 fighter pilot and commander.
He is the recipient of numerous military and intelligence community awards, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Air Medal, the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA Donovan Award, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency Award, the National Reconnaissance Distinguished Medal, and the National Security Agency Award.


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Are Sheffield United interested in breakaway league?
Are Sheffield United among the 15 Championship clubs interested in being part of a breakaway league?
The Sun reports that the sides from England's second tier want to cut ties with the EFL due to issues with a new TV deal.
The new contract, running from next season, is worth £119m a year. It has been backed by all of the League One and Two clubs.
However, the biggest teams in the Championship believe they should be getting more. It's reported Aston Villa, Derby County and Leeds United are among them.
So are the Blades also involved?
Sheffield United breaking away
The new Sky deal will see each Championship club earn £2.95m each from TV rights. A further pot of £17.7m will then be split based on the number of times a team is televised.
Yet some sides reportedly believed that they should be earning double that. Their earnings from TV coverage is certainly a lot less than those in the Premier League.
This is despite the fact that Leeds Live report 55 percent of the Whites' games from now until the end of the season will be on live TV. Only Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur have a higher percentage.
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Following Liverpool, Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers the next highest is Sheffield United, with 50 percent of their matches being televised.
In the Championship, the Times outlines that West Bromwich Albion top the table of most games shown on TV. Including those gone and those scheduled up to April 10, it totals 11 matches.
Leeds and Villa are next with ten apiece and then it's the Blades with nine. They clearly are a big draw, so surely they are among the 15 threatening to break away?
How would it work?
The reality of a Premier League 2 style division is unclear. Presumably they would leave the EFL, but agreements would then need to be made with the FA and the Premier League.
Would relegated teams from this new league go into League One and vice versa? And would fans even want this new format? The clubs now have until 4pm on November 19 to reconsider their position.
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West Indies fell to a five-wicket loss to hosts India at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Kolkata, November 5: The West Indies batsmen paid the price for being too aggressive on not the "best" Eden Gardens pitch, said debutant Fabian Allen after the five-wicket loss in the T20 series opener against India on Sunday (November 4).
Allen made 27 from 20 balls to take the total to 109/8 after debutant Krunal Pandya and chinaman Kuldeep Yadav choked West Indies in the middle, reducing them to 87/8 in 18 overs. The 23-year-old said it was not the best of wickets and a score of 150 would have made the game competitive.
"It was not the best wicket but we had to be patient, should have played the ball on merit. We were too aggressive; I think we could have easily got 150 or 140, that was the target we were looking for," Allen said at the post-match news conference on Sunday (November 4).
The reigning World T20 champions had a four-match unbeaten run coming into the match but they were undone by some fine spin bowling. "It's one of those days. We will look to come back in the next game. I hope we learn from this and take it to our next game," he said ahead of their second T20I in Lucknow on Tuesday (November 6).
Despite being named in the squad, hard-hitting Andre Russell pulled out of the series on the eve of the opening game due to an "injury". "Of course, he is a crucial player in the team, a leader. Chris Gayle was also not around. Young players tried to contribute as much they can," said Allen.
None of the batsmen could stay at the crease and execute their plans. "Anything is possible in T20. It does not matter how many wickets you lose... We could have executed efficiently. It was our first game, we will try to execute our plan and play the ball on merit," he said.
"In T20s, you have to expect anything. It was one of those days. We will just look to bounce back in the next game."


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Gov Whitmer Vows to Use Other Means After Supreme Court Strikes Down Powers
By Beth LeBlanc, Craig Mauger and Melissa Nann Burke | The Detroit News
In a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications, the Michigan Supreme Court decided Friday that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer violated her constitutional authority by continuing to issue orders to combat COVID-19 without the approval of state lawmakers.
The state's high court ruled 4-3 that a state law allowing the governor to declare emergencies and keep them in place without legislative input — the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act — is unconstitutional.
The court was unanimous in ruling that a separate law — the 1976 Emergency Management Act — did not give Whitmer the power, after April 30, to issue or renew any executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic after 28 days without Legislative approval.
The ruling, which was requested by a federal judge earlier this year, serves as advice to the federal court and indicates how the court would rule on a suit challenging Whitmer's emergency powers.
The order essentially brings an end to Whitmer's ability to use emergency powers without legislative approval, but there are differing takes as to when the practical effect of the ruling would be felt.
Whitmer argued her powers will remain in place for at least 21 days, an apparent reference to a 21-day period in which the governor can request a rehearing from the Michigan Supreme Court.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which brought the suit in federal court that led to Friday's ruling, argued the decision ends Whitmer's executive orders immediately, or, at the very least, as soon as a federal judge uses the ruling to decide the center's case.
"It's a matter of when we can get a court to implement it," said Patrick Wright, vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center.
"Anybody that is in the courts right now will point to this ruling and should win," said Wright, referencing other pending lawsuits against Whitmer.
The majority opinion of the state's high court made clear on Friday the ruling would
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"Our decision leaves open many avenues for the governor and Legislature to work together to address this challenge, and we hope that this will take place," Justice Stephen Markman wrote in the majority opinion.
Whitmer said Friday she "vehemently" disagreed with the court's ruling, which she said made Michigan an "outlier" among the majority of states that have emergency orders in place.
The governor said that even after the Supreme Court ruling takes effect, her directives will remain in place through "alternative sources of authority."
The ruling appears to leave intact orders issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, which have addressed some of the same subject matter contained in Whitmer's executive orders.
Friday's Supreme Court ruling will ensure, Wright said, that "as our state continues to face the challenges that come with COVID-19, all of the people of Michigan will have a voice in the decisions that will impact our state in the years to come."
However, he conceded the Whitmer administration could retain some authority through other agencies.
"If there are other laws or administrative regulation the governor can use — be they the Department of Health and Human Services or another agency — those are still in place," Wright said. But he added those orders could be reviewed to determine whether they overstep the standards outlined in the laws giving the departments that authority.
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Effective storytelling is the key to building a powerful and coherent city brand that people connect with and share. So how can destination marketers tackle this challenge and create a branding campaign that people naturally want to tell their friends about?
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After all, since residents are a key ingredient of a destination's product, they need to become its front line ambassadors. They are also an important internal client for modern DMOs. If the residents are not happy with your destination, they will not support your efforts, welcome your visitors or become destination advocates. In the case of "I amsterdam", the brand is about everyone that visits, lives, studies or has a business there. It says that the city welcomes everyone.
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Moreover, a city brand comes to life when people interact with it and become inspired to create influential stories and share experiences around it. The "I amsterdam" brand has earned a life of its own, channeled and amplified by the community. I amsterdam's letters, located behind the city's Rijksmuseum, have become a point of interest for many visitors who photograph themselves in, around and on top of the letters. As a popular and photogenic location, the large slogan continues to generate strong word-of-mouth promotion.
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Forward in Faith - The Campaign for Concordia came to an historic close on December 31, 2020. We thank you – and most importantly, the Lord – for the abundant blessings that have been shared with Concordia's students. Over 10,000 donors participated in the Campaign and propelled us over the $85M campaign goal. Stay tuned for exciting announcements later this month as we reveal the final campaign total. To God be the Glory!
Endowment Funds Sustain Concordia's Mission
As a young institution, Concordia University Irvine is making great strides in building a strong endowment that will fortify the quality programs that help carry out its mission. The Concordia Endowment has more than quadrupled since 2009, showing the largest percent increase among local Christian schools.
Endowments are the lifeblood of an institution. They provide an ongoing source of revenue for student scholarships and other campus priorities. Concordia was founded by the region's churches who literally prayed and paid the university into existence. The Concordia Endowment builds on that support and provides strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
We have much to be thankful for, but much work still to do. We are moving Forward in Faith toward a $75M endowment by 2025. Your cash gifts and estate gifts will make a difference in the lives of students now and in the future, funding your passion in perpetuity.
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What is an endowment?
An endowment is a permanent investment in the future of Concordia University and its commitment to furthering Christ's Great Commission. Endowed funds are invested, rather than used as cash for immediate needs. The earnings from the endowment are distributed to the University scholarships and academic programs.
An endowment can be designated for a specific purpose, such as faculty development or scholarships. The gift to create the endowment can be made from cash, stock, life insurance, real estate or other assets. The gift is invested and only the earnings from the gift are used each year for the purpose designated by the donor.
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Since the capital cannot be used, the income generated from an endowment is an important source of revenue. Endowed funds create a foundation for fiscal growth and stability, while generating a reliable portion of income for scholarships and academic programs.
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The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Connecticut. UConn was founded in 1881 and is a Land Grant and Sea Grant college & member of the Space Grant Consortium. The university serves more than 30,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs.[4]
UConn is one of the founding institutions of the Hartford, Connecticut/Springfield, Massachusetts regional economic and cultural partnership alliance known as New England's Knowledge Corridor. UConn is a member of Universitas 21, a global network of 24 research-intensive universities, who work together to foster global citizenship.[5] UConn is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the school became a land grant college. In 1939, the name was changed to the University of Connecticut. Over the next decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programs were established, and existing schools of law and pharmacy were absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975.
Competing in the American Athletic Conference (The American) as the Huskies, UConn has been particularly successful in their Men's and Women's Basketball programs. The Huskies have won a total of 21 NCAA championships.[6]
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UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who donated the land for the school as well as initial funding. Women began attending classes in 1891 and were officially admitted in 1893, when the name was changed to Storrs Agricultural College and it became Connecticut's land grant college. In 1899, the name changed again to Connecticut Agricultural College; in 1933, to Connecticut State College; and finally in 1939, to the University of Connecticut.
In 1940, the school was first divided into individual colleges and schools, reflecting its new university status. This was also the year that the School of Social Work and School of Nursing were first established. The graduate program was also started at this time, and existing schools of law and pharmacy were absorbed into the university. Ph.D.s have been awarded since 1949.
During the 1960s, the UConn Health was established in Farmington as a home for the new School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975[7] and has been operated by UConn ever since.
In 1995, a state-funded program called UConn 2000 was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly and signed into law by then-Governor John G. Rowland.[8] This 10-year program set aside $1 billion to upgrade campus facilities, add faculty, and otherwise improve the university.[8] An additional $1.3 billion was pledged by the State of Connecticut in 2002 as part of a new 10-year improvement plan known as 21st Century UConn.
Storrs campus
The primary and original UConn campus is located in Storrs, a division of the Town of Mansfield, 22 miles (35 km) east of Hartford, Connecticut's capital.
The University of Connecticut Libraries form the largest public research collection in the state of Connecticut. The main library is the Homer D. Babbidge Library, formerly the Nathan Hale Library, at the Storrs campus, which underwent a $3 million renovation that was completed in 1998, making it then the largest public research library in New England.[9] The Storrs campus is also home to the university's Music and Pharmacy libraries, as well as the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, home to the university's archives and special collections, including university records, rare books, and manuscript collections. Each of the regional campuses also have their own libraries, including the Jeremy Richard Library at UConn-Stamford and the Trecker Library in West Hartford. These libraries are tied into the Babbidge library through a shared catalogue. The Babbidge-based collection places UConn among the top 30 universities in the nation for both library holdings and funding, containing more than 2.5 million print volumes; approximately 2,500 current print periodicals; more than 35,000 unique electronic journals through the eJournal locator;[10] 2.8 million units of microfilm; 180,000 maps at the Map and Geographic Information Center (New England's largest public map collection); millions of electronic books; and an array of free electronic information sources. The UCL also license approximately 265 electronic search databases,[11] many of which contain the full-text of research journals, monographs, and historic documents. Members of the UConn community can access these resources from off-campus by logging into the VPN with their netID and password.[12][13]
The Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, which is housed at UConn Health, was one of eight federally funded National Network of Libraries of Medicine libraries from 1991–2001.[14] The University of Connecticut School of Law houses the School of Law Library at its campus in Hartford. The Stowe and Law libraries have catalogues separate from the Babbidge system, making the total library holdings of the University of Connecticut much higher than the 2.5 million print volumes of Babbidge.[15] UConn is the home of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the world's most comprehensive survey and public opinion data library.[16] UConn participates in several outside library consortia, including the New England Law Library Consortium. The Dodd Research Center has also formed a partnership with the African National Congress to share materials with South African scholars.[17]
The UConn campus at Storrs is home to the theatre.
Because it is situated in a fairly rural area, the UConn campus at Storrs has facilities that allow it to be virtually self-sufficient. All heat on campus is steam, and where possible sidewalks were laid over the underground connectors to keep the snow off. In 2005, a cogeneration plant was activated, which generates most of the electricity for the campus, and uses the exhaust steam for the campus central heating system.[18] The University also owns its own public water system and waste water treatment facility. With the support of a growing number of industry leaders based in Connecticut, UConn is at the forefront of developing clean, alternative sources of renewable energy using fuel cell technology.[19] In April 2012, UConn commissioned a fuel cell power plant at its Depot Campus that will supply the campus with clean and efficiency energy, cooling and heating. The installation of a ClearEdge Power, former UTC Power,[20] PureCell System is the latest step by UConn to reduce its carbon footprint and build a sustainable community. The fuel cell installation was made possible through a federal stimulus grant from Connecticut's Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority.[21]
UConn's main campus in Storrs
Aerial view of main campus
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The University of Connecticut Police Department is a fully functional police agency with the same statutory authority as any municipal police department in the State of Connecticut. State and internationally accredited, the department is responsible for the protection of lives and property at the University of Connecticut and all adjacent areas within the jurisdiction of the UConn Police Department. This includes the main campus in Storrs and the regional campuses located statewide. The UConn Division of Public Safety also includes the UConn Fire Department, and Office of the Fire Marshal and Building Inspectors. The UConn Storrs campus is equipped with the blue-light system which allows for students to press one of these emergency buttons which will notify the police and they will come to the location in which the button was pushed.[22]
UConn 2000 was a public-private partnership to rebuild, renew and enhance the University of Connecticut from 1995 to 2005, funded by the State of Connecticut. UConn 2000 was enacted by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1995 and signed into law by Governor John G. Rowland. The construction projects were overseen by President Philip E. Austin. The legislature renewed the construction investments through 21st Century UConn. 21st Century UConn is the continuation of UConn 2000 and is another billion dollar construction investment by the state of Connecticut to upgrade facilities at the University of Connecticut. It passed the Connecticut General Assembly and was signed into law by Governor Rowland in 2002. By the time of the project's completion, every building on campus will be either new or completely renovated. Money has also been put into the regional and satellite campuses, including the new School of Business facilities in downtown Hartford. Next Generation Connecticut is a multi-faceted $1.5 billion plan to build the state's economic future through strategic investments in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines (STEM). It passed the Connecticut General Assembly and was signed into law by Governor Dannel Malloy in June 2013. The funds will be used over a ten-year period to hire 250+ new faculty, increase undergraduate enrollment by 6,580 students, and upgrade aging campus infrastructure. Money has also been allocated to build new STEM facilities, construct new STEM teaching laboratories and to create a premier STEM honors college. NextGenCT will also allow for the construction of student housing and a digital media center at the Stamford campus, and allow for the relocation of the Greater Hartford campus back to downtown Hartford.[23]
Overlooking Long Island Sound in the town of Groton, UConn's Avery Point campus is home to the National Undersea Research Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant College, Project Oceanology and the Long Island Sound Resource Center. In recent years, the campus has undergone an extensive transformation, including new Marine Science and Project Oceanology buildings, a new research vessel and renovations of the Branford House, the gymnasium and the main Academic Building.
Branford House on the Avery Point campus
The campus was formerly the summer estate of Morton Freeman Plant, a 19th-century railroad, steamship and hotel magnate. Branford House, his mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, was reportedly worth $3 million when it was completed in 1904. Also located on the estate was a caretaker's house (the current police station) and a barn and horse stable (the current physical plant buildings). The estate included what is now the Shennecossett Public Golf Course located just north of the campus. The Plant estate was turned over to the State of Connecticut in the 1930s. During World War II, it was leased to the Coast Guard as a training center, and the Avery Point Light was built. In 1967, the estate was converted into the Southeastern Campus of the University of Connecticut, later renamed the University of Connecticut at Avery Point.
Students have access to classes for all of UConn's traditional majors as well as the Bachelor of General Studies. In addition to the BGS degree, there are three other majors that can be completed at the Avery Point campus: Coastal Studies, Maritime Studies, and American Studies. Graduate programs are also offered at Avery Point in STEM Teacher Education, Engineering, and Nursing. In 2012-2013 the UCONN branch of Avery Point was renovated, and a new student center was built.
In 1951, the University of Connecticut began offering extension courses at the former Stamford High School. In fall of 1952, the University formally established a regional campus in Stamford. Upon inception, UConn's Stamford Campus offered five courses — English, Mathematics, History, Speech and Sociology and enrolled 21 part-time students.
A newly constructed UConn Stamford Campus opened in 1962 on Scofield Town Road, and a separate library building was added in 1974. Also in the mid-1970s, the academic program was expanded to provide a four-year degree in several fields of study.
In 1990, planning began for a new UConn Stamford Campus in the heart of downtown Stamford. One of the first UConn 2000 building projects, the new state-of-the-art campus opened in 1998, offering a variety of academic programs including undergraduate and graduate degrees. The contemporary glass-enclosed campus features a high-tech approach to learning with internet access in classrooms, laboratories and public spaces.
The Stamford Campus partners with many corporate leaders and offers students hands-on work experience. In collaboration with area businesses, UConn's Stamford Campus established the Connecticut Information Technology Institute, a full-service resource center that provides IT professional development and cyber-business research.
The Stamford Campus of the University of Connecticut offers complete undergraduate degree programs in thirteen majors as well as The Bachelor of General Studies Degree Program. Majors are American Studies, Business Administration (BSBA), Business Data Analytics (BSBDA), Financial Management (BSFM), Digital Media and Design (BA) and (BFA), Economics, English, Human Development and Family Studies, History, Political Science, Psychology and a Certificate Entry into Nursing (CEIN/BS) an accelerated pre-licensure program. At the graduate level, Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and an MS in Financial Risk Management are offered.[24]
Greater Hartford campus
UConn's Greater Hartford campus, as its name indicates, serves a broad section of the area's populace. Opened in 1939 in the City of Hartford, the University of Connecticut's Greater Hartford Campus moved in 1970 to its present location in West Hartford. In November 2012, the University decided to return the campus to downtown Hartford, citing significant costs to modernize the West Hartford campus as well as a desire to give students easier access to Hartford's professional and cultural opportunities. Planned to take place in for the Fall semester of 2016, the new campus will be located within Hartford's Front Street neighborhood, a portion of the Adriaen's Landing project. The centerpiece of the new campus will be the historic Beaux-Arts former headquarters of the Hartford Times.
Starr Hall on the School of Law campus in Hartford
The Greater Hartford Campus offers a wide range of Liberal Arts and Sciences courses and degrees to over 1,400 undergraduate and more than 600 graduate students.[25] Students pursue undergraduate degrees in American Studies, Business and Technology, Business Administration, English, General Studies, Human Development and Family Studies, Psychology, and Urban and Community Studies. The Center for Continuing Studies provides a number of certificate program options, in addition to the Bachelor of General Studies, an interdisciplinary degree program tailored to meet individual needs and goals of returning, non-traditional, part-time adult students. Due to the Greater Hartford Campus' proximity to the State Capitol and legislative offices, the University's Department of Public Policy is based on the Greater Hartford Campus and offers a Master of Arts in Survey Research and a Master of Arts in Public Administration, as well as certificate programs. The University's School of Social Work is also located at the Greater Hartford Campus and offers a Master of Social Work and Ph.D in Social Work. The Greater Hartford Campus also offers the popular one-year Master of Education with Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates.
Located at Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford, UConn's Graduate Business Learning Center is home to the UConn School of Business part-time and Executive MBA Hartford program and MS in Business Analytics and Project Management (MSBAPM), as well as the SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator. The center was remodeled in 2004 to create a state-of-the-art facility featuring the latest technology. The University has announced that the Graduate Business Center will be relocating to Hartford's Front Street in 2016 as part of the relocation of the Greater Hartford campus.
The University of Connecticut's Waterbury campus serves more than 1,000 students annually. In its 60 years of operation, UConn Waterbury has opened the doors to educational access and excellence to thousands of Connecticut residents, many of whom have distinguished themselves in the fields of community service, business, education, law and politics. Today, the campus is located in a modern, state-of-the-art facility in the heart of downtown Waterbury.[26]
Students at UConn Waterbury enjoy smaller classes and a more intimate campus environment. With a low student to faculty ratio, students are able to engage in frequent classroom discussions with the school's distinguished faculty. Professors come from diverse academic backgrounds and are actively involved in scholarly research. Many serve as student advisors and mentors. Uconn Waterbury offers a variety of campus resources and support services. Students can use the library, writing center, math center, peer tutoring assistance, computer labs and counseling services.[26]
Torrington campus
The University of Connecticut at Torrington was founded in 1957; opening its present campus in 1965. The 100-acre (0.40 km2) campus consists of the M. Adela Eads Classroom Building and the Litchfield County Extension Service Building. The facilities include high-tech classrooms, a learning center, art studio, computer rooms, a branch of the UConn Co-op bookstore, a 250-seat auditorium, student lounge, and a cafeteria. The Julia Brooker Thompson Library has a collection of 17,000 books and videos and 25 print journals and newspapers, and provides access to all other UConn libraries as well as to public libraries and libraries of other schools.[27] Approximately 400 students matriculate at the campus, enjoying a student-faculty ratio of about 10 to 1. UConn Torrington offers the following undergraduate degree programs: American Studies, Human Development and Family Studies, English, General Studies, Business and Technology, Psychology, and Urban and Community Studies.[28] Also noteworthy is the Litchfield County Writers Project, a focus for cultural activity in the region. The campus Academic Plan of 2007 envisions an increasing focus on the arts and humanities.
Bioscience Connecticut
In June 2011, the Connecticut General Assembly approved legislation[29] for Bioscience Connecticut, a plan proposed by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to jump-start the Connecticut economy.[30]
According to the proposal, Bioscience Connecticut will result in the creation of 3,000 construction jobs annually from 2012 through 2018 and a $4.6 billion increase in personal income by 2037, while generating more than 16,000 jobs.[31] The initiative includes plans for renovations to existing facilities on the UConn Health campus in Farmington, Conn., as well the construction of a new patient tower and ambulatory care facility, and seeks to increase UConn Health's medical and dental school enrollments by 30 percent.
Jackson Laboratory
In January 2012, Gov. Malloy announced that Jackson Laboratory (JAX)[1] had reached an agreement[32] to launch a $1.1 billion genomic medicine laboratory[33] on the campus of the UConn Health. Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine.
According to the agreement, Jackson Laboratory will enter into a collaborative research agreement with UConn Health and will create at least 300 positions within 10 years, 30 percent of total employees being senior scientist positions. Once fully developed, the facility is projected to employ 600 scientists and technicians.[34] The state of Connecticut has approved $291 million of the total capital and research budget; Jackson Laboratory will raise the balance of $860 million through federal research grants, philanthropy, and service income.[32]
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UConn students have the opportunity to pursue more than 100 majors, eight separate undergraduate degrees, 17 graduate degrees and five professional degree programs.[35] Students can choose from 87 different minors at UConn, including areas of study that are not offered as formalized majors.
UConn participates in the New England Board of Higher Education's Regional Student Program (NERSP), which allows students from the five other New England states to enroll at the university at a reduced out-of-state tuition rate if their intended major is not provided by one of their in-state universities.[36]
The university participates in a special guaranteed admissions program[37] with the Connecticut Community Colleges (CCC) that is designed for academically qualified students who are attending a Connecticut community college and who are planning to transfer to the University of Connecticut in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Business, or Engineering. Each year, more than 1,000 transfer students are admitted to the university.[38]
Of the over 31,000 people who applied to be undergraduate students at UConn in the fall of 2014, about half were admitted and about half of those who were admitted enrolled at the university.[39] Approximately 50,000 prospective students and their families tour the main campus in Storrs annually. UConn's retention rate is among the best for public universities in the nation, with 93% of students returning for their sophomore year.[40]
ARWU[41]
Forbes[42]
U.S. News & World Report[43]
Washington Monthly[44]
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Times[48]
The university has achieved numerous commendations as a result of its focus on academics and the resources it provides for its students and faculty. For example:
In 2001, authors Howard and Matthew Greene of Greenes' Guides named UConn a "Public Ivy" in their book The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities[49]
The university was ranked 19th among Public Universities and 57th among National Universities in the 2014 U.S. News and World Report rankings.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance named UConn the 25th best value in public higher education for 2013 (22nd on the basis of out-of-state tuition).[50]
The 2013 Sierra Club "Cool Schools" list of environmentally responsible Universities ranked UConn at Number 1.[51]
In 2012, the University of Connecticut was ranked as the most sustainable campus among 215 universities worldwide.[52]
Graduate and postgraduate
Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,[53] College of Agriculture and Natural Resources,[54] the Graduate School,[55] the Neag School of Education,[56] the School of Nursing,[57] the School of Business,[58] the School of Dental Medicine,[59] the School of Medicine,[60] the School of Engineering,[61] the School of Social Work,[62] the Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture,[63] the School of Pharmacy,[64] the School of Law, and the School of Fine Arts.[65]
Founded in 1921, the University of Connecticut School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.[66] The campus is located just outside the downtown core of Hartford, minutes away from the Connecticut State Capitol, state courts and agencies, and the offices of Hartford's law firms and corporations. Law students have ready access to all of these institutions for study, externships, clinical education, practice, and employment. The campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its gothic-style buildings, constructed in 1925 (except for the new library, which was completed in 1996), housed the Hartford Seminary until 1981.
The law school has approximately 620 students and a student:faculty ratio of 11:1. UConn Law has repeatedly been ranked the top public law school in New England by U.S. News and World Report, and was most recently in 2013 ranked 58th of American Law Schools.[67] There are four scholarly journals edited on campus: the Connecticut Law Review, the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, and the Connecticut Journal of International Law. Students may pursue concentrations in corporate law, criminal law, environmental law, family law, intellectual property law, international law, juvenile law, labor law, litigation, tax law, torts and insurance, legal theory, information technology law, property and land, child advocacy, and policy. The school is known particularly for its strong insurance law and intellectual property law programs.
UConn Health, located in Farmington, CT.
The UConn Health campus in Farmington is home to the School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, John Dempsey Hospital and faculty practices in medical and dental health care.[68] The Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, which is housed at UConn Health, was one of eight federally funded National Network of Libraries of Medicine libraries from 1991 to 2001.
Faculty 500
In 2012 the University of Connecticut embarked on an ambitious, multi-year hiring initiative to expand its faculty numbers across numerous academic disciplines. This four-year investment in 500 tenure-track faculty positions is poised to: Build on the institution's existing strengths and grow new expertise in strategic areas by hiring talented scholars within a targeted selection of academic departments;boost the University's research productivity; provide outstanding teaching and service to UConn students; and continue the transformation that has led the University to stand among the nation's leading public research universities.[69]
There is a wide variety of student organizations on campus, including fraternities and sororities, musical groups, and religious, athletic, political, cultural, business, military, artistic, and community service clubs. There are also student organizations set up with the intent of governing student life itself, such as the Student Union Board of Governors, the Undergraduate Student Government, the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council, UConnPIRG, Residence Hall Association, and the various residence hall councils. The university also has a daily student-run newspaper, The Daily Campus, which is the largest student newspaper in the state of Connecticut. As well as the newspaper, the university has a Huskyvision cable network, channels 14 and 16 at the university. Channel 14 is UCTV, a cable TV network consisting of student-made public-access television shows. The university also has a student-run community radio station WHUS, which broadcasts at 91.7FM from the UConn Student Union.
Also under way is the construction of the new Storrs Downtown Center, a mixed-use town center slated to include retail shops, restaurants, offices, and housing, situated on Connecticut Route 195 across from the UConn campus.[70]
While many area activities are held on campus, the university provides free local bus transportation and also arranges frequent bus trips to Connecticut State Museum of Natural History. The UConn Dairy Bar was started circa 1953. It remains open year-round is well known for its ice cream, with roughly 200,000 customers visiting annually.[71]
Until 1933, the mascot of UConn had been the Aggies. This was because of the original agricultural nature of the University. In 1933, the University changed its name from Connecticut Agricultural College to Connecticut State College. To reflect this change, athletic teams were known as the Statesmen. In December 1934, the Husky was chosen as the mascot.[72] All UConn huskies are named Jonathan in honor of Jonathan Trumbull. The current "real" Jonathan is Jonathan XV; he is often seen greeting fans and eating dog biscuits at sporting events. Jonathan is one of the few university mascots in the nation to have been selected by students via a popular poll. A statue of Jonathan can also be found outside near the entrances to Gampel Pavilion and the natatorium. This statue, by artist Larry Waisele, was dedicated in 1995. Students are known to rub its nose for good luck.
The UConn fight song, officially titled UConn Husky but commonly called The Husky Fight Song, is one of the most recognizable in the country, played by the Pride of Connecticut during nationally televised sporting events. An audio presentation of UConn Husky is available on the UConn Alumni Association website.[73] A full history of the song can be found on the UConn Advance website.[74]
The official colors of the University of Connecticut are blue and white, with red accents included on athletic uniforms.
Painting "The Rock" Coated with thousands of layers of paint over the decades, "The Rock" is a student tradition dating back to the late 1940s. Students repeatedly paint it to promote student events, including dances, pep rallies, student elections, parades, fraternity and sorority functions and a host of other campus activities. The current rock is a portion of a much larger outcropping that was originally located across from the North Campus quadrangle and removed for construction of the Life Sciences building in 1958. Forty years later it was put into storage during the UCONN 2000 construction program. The Rock was relocated to its present site in 2008.[75]
Oozeball OOzeball is UConn's annual Mud Volleyball Tournament. Each year over 1,000 players and spectators come out to watch UConn's finest get "down & dirty." 2012 marked the 29th running of OOzeball, making it the longest running tournament of its kind in the nation.[76]
Lip Sync Lip Sync is one of UConn's signature Homecoming events, where teams from the Cultural Centers and Greek organizations compete in a high-energy lip syncing contest. Each team choreographs a routine set to popular songs, and performs in front of thousands of fans in Gampel Pavilion.
Spring Weekend The annual Spring Weekend concert organized by the Student Union Board of Governors (SUBOG) has attracted top artists and bands such as Outkast and Third Eye Blind in 2000,[77] Guster and Nelly in 2001, Fat Joe and Nine Days in 2002,[78] 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes in 2003,[79] Ludacris and Kanye West in 2004, Nas and Fabolous in 2005, O.A.R. in 2006, Dashboard Confessional, Reel Big Fish and The Starting Line in 2007, Method Man, Redman, Flo Rida, and T-Pain in 2008, 50 Cent and Naughty by Nature in 2009, Jack's Mannequin and KiD CuDi in 2010, B.o.B and Far East Movement in 2011, Wiz Khalifa[80] in 2012, Kendrick Lamar and Steve Aoki in 2013, and most recently ASAP Ferg and Schoolboy Q in 2015. It is also known for sizable outdoor parties which have historically drawn more than 10,000 attendees.
Since 2003, UConn has established university-owned Greek housing in the "Husky Village", created an Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, and hired full-time staff to administer the Greek Life program. Currently, 32 national social fraternities and sororities have chapters at UConn.[81]
Exterior and interior views of the Gampel Pavilion, where some of the prospective students who tour the campus each year are shown the basketball teams' championship banners.
The University of Connecticut athletic teams are nicknamed the Huskies and compete at the NCAA's Division I level and in the Football Bowl Subdivision. UConn teams are members of the American Athletic Conference in most sports; the Huskies were a charter member of The American when it was founded in 1979 as the original Big East Conference, and are the only remaining charter member of that league. UConn has become a full member of Hockey East in 2014-15, with the women playing since the founding of the women's Hockey East in 2002.
Many UConn student-athletes have gone on to succeed at the professional level, including: Ray Allen, Caron Butler, Andre Drummond, Rudy Gay, Richard Hamilton, Jeremy Lamb, Shabazz Napier, Emeka Okafor, Charlie Villanueva, and Kemba Walker in the NBA; Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Tina Charles, Stefanie Dolson, Bria Hartley, Asjha Jones, Renee Montgomery, Maya Moore, Rebecca Lobo, and Diana Taurasi in the WNBA; Donald Brown, Tyvon Branch, Darius Butler, Will Beatty and Dan Orlovsky in the NFL; Walt Dropo, and Charles Nagy, in the MLB; and Kevin Burns, Shavar Thomas and O'Brian White in the MLS. UConn student-athletes graduate at a higher rate than the general student body and many teams and individuals have won honors for academic excellence. UConn men's basketball player Emeka Okafor (2004) and women's basketball player Maya Moore (2011) were named the National Academic All-Americans of the Year by the College Sports Information Director of America as seniors.
UConn is known for its men's and women's basketball teams, both of which are considered among the best in the country. The men's basketball teams have won four National Championships (1999, 2004, 2011, and 2014) while the women's basketball teams have won ten National Championships (1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2015) and have played in a total of 14 NCAA Final Fours, including the past six. The women's team went undefeated in the 1995, 2002, 2009, 2010, and 2014 seasons, and currently holds the NCAA Division I record for longest winning streak (90 games).
UConn is the only Division I school to sweep the men's and women's basketball titles in the same year, having done it twice: in 2004 (earning Storrs the nickname "center of the college basketball universe")[82] and again in 2014.
The University elevated its football program to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2002, although the school first fielded a team in 1896. UConn became the quickest program to go from FBS elevation to a Bowl Championship Series game when it played in the 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. UConn has now played in a total of five bowl games.
The UConn men's soccer team has won three national championships, in 1948, 1981 and 2000, while the women's soccer team has advanced to the National Championship title game in 1984, 1990, 1997 and 2003. UConn is also a national player in field hockey, where it has advanced to the national semifinals ten times; winning national championships in 1981, 1985, 2013, and 2014 as an associate member of the Big East conference. The Husky baseball team has played in the NCAA College World Series five times and recently participated in the 2011 NCAA Super Regionals. The Husky Baseball team won the 2013 Big East Championship in Florida, beating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.[83]
UConn's Husky logo underwent a significant redesign, with the new design unveiled in April 2013. The updated logo, designed by Nike, has appeared on all athletic uniforms since the Fall 2013 season.[84]
Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on the Storrs campus, the campus venue of men's and women's basketball.
XL Center in Hartford, second home of both basketball teams and home of the men's hockey team.
Rentschler Field in East Hartford, home to the football team.
J. O. Christian Field, home to UConn Baseball.
Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum, home to thewomen's hockey teams.
Morrone Stadium, on campus stadium, home to men's and women's soccer teams.
University of Connecticut Historic District-Connecticut Agricultural School, a historic district encompassing the historic core of the Storrs campus
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Who's trying to eavesdrop on your customers' encrypted mobile traffic?
The number one source of TLS/SSL Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks on encrypted mobile traffic are not corporate firewalls or captive portals used by hotels, airports and other organizations offering free Wi-Fi access – it's spyware.
"A big chunk of that spyware comes from companies that are mining user data, and users are usually not tricked into installing these apps. Unfortunately, users explicitly allow companies to monitor their phone usage for a meager compensation," notes Doug Dooley, Chief Operating Officer at modern application security company Data Theorem.
This revelation comes from reports collected in the past 12 months via TrustKit, a plug-and-play open source SDK that simplifies the implementation of TLS (SSL) pinning in mobile apps. The SDK ensures that the client checks the server-side certificate against a known copy of that certificate and, thus, spots eavesdropping attacks.
About TrustKit
TrustKit for Apple's operating systems was created by Data Theorem and released in 2015. The Android version was made available a year later. It has since been added to over 3,000 applications and has identified more than 100 million eavesdropping attempts.
TrustKit allows developers to enable certificate pinning in their mobile apps quickly and painlessly and allows them to decide whether they want to:
Monitor and alert on all eavesdropping attempts (passive mode)
Actively block any eavesdropping attempt from a MitM attacker (active mode).
Judging by the quadrupling of the number of applications that have gone either from passive to active mode or straight to active mode in the past year, app developers seem to be increasingly comfortable with blocking compromised connections.
"They either did this before and they started using TrustKit to make their lives easier or they know exactly why they want to make the effort of implement TLS pinning and have a strong commitment to data privacy," Dooley notes. "The latter is possibly due to compliance requirements: they need to prove that mobile communication/transactions are safe from potential eavesdroppers."
About TrustKit Analytics
The security insights that the company has into the nature of these MitM attacks is a result of TrustKit sending reports about them to their server systems.
The company has also announced TrustKit Analytics, a new service that allows app developers to see where eavesdropping attempts on their users are happening based on geolocation data, as well as the attack source (spyware, corporate firewalls, insecure public Wi-Fi, unknown actors, etc.). Every time they put TrustKit into one of their apps, they get a new analytics dashboard on which they can see near real-time threat analysis.
That part of the service is free and always will be, says Dooley, but they also have a paid option to sign up for different kinds of protection alerts and trending reports.
For example, the SecOps team might want to be alerted when a spike of MitM attempts on their app is detected in some part of the world. Or, they might want to get an alert if someone tries to forge their SSL certificate during renewal, which could cause a denial-of-service (DoS) for all customers. These alerts can help them avoid mistakes and the loss of business due to avoidable downtime.
"To us TrustKit is a big deal because it's the first time that we've tried to do something open source and free for the community and it has become extremely popular very quickly," notes Dooley.
"It's a win-win for everybody – for user and data privacy, for businesses that want to protect their brand, and for us as a company. If you're an app developer that cares about security and you're impressed by the quality of the things you're getting from Data Theorem for free, you're likely to wonder about the things you could get by using the company's entire suite of security protection."
About Data Theorem
Data Theorem was founded in 2013 by Himanshu Dwivedi, who recognized the rising importance of mobile computing and mobile application security when iSec Partners, the company he started before Data Theorem, was asked by Google to help secure their latest new acquisition: the Android mobile OS.
He also recognized the trends that make modern application development tricky from the security standpoint – the fast pace of development, the use of third-party and open source code, SDKs, APIs, and the fact that most of these apps sit on top of someone else's cloud infrastructure.
"Open source is a reality that allows business to go faster and build applications with more agility," says Dooley. "TrustKit is a perfect example. If every single app developer had to build TLS pinning capabilities from scratch, the cost, the time, the effort and the quality would vary a lot. So even some of the richest and engineering-filled organizations are leveraging TrustKit because they can look at the code quality and at the community around it and they know there's a lot of vetting happening within this open source SDK project."
But trusting that someone else is doing things right is not good enough, and that's why Data Theorem also provides the means for verifying the security of the code (both written outside and inside the organizations) and APIs used by mobile applications.
The company can constantly analyze customer's apps in various online app stores for static code issues, dynamic run-time flaws, vulnerable third-party SDKs, insecure open source libraries, and compliance gaps. Pre-production scanning is also possible and security issues are pushed straight into bug tracking systems such as JIRA. But, what's most important, the company also supplies the secure code fixes to the application developers.
"That's one of the things that the customers love about us. We actually provide the Objective C, the Java, the Swift code, so our customers can fix the issue quickly instead of just being bombarded with security issues from yet another security vendor," Dwivedi explains.
Security testing without disruption
One of the company's biggest wins is that they've been able to provide security testing without disruption.
"There's no slowdown in the development process, security testing happens naturally, and that saves data, money and jobs. The best part of our job is when everything works in a highly automated fashion with little human intervention: our customers go about their normal day of business, we find issues before they hit public repositories, and they seamlessly fix the unearthed problems," Dwivedi explains.
The company's customers are many and varied: Adobe, Cisco, eBay, PayPal, GAP, Wildflower Health, Goldman Sachs and many others.
Evernote, which started using the company's services in November 2014, can attest to their efficacy. Before, they relied solely on their internal security team, which didn't have enough staff to manage the company's rapid scale and application growth. Since partnering with Data Theorem, they have implemented nine app protection features, closed over a 100 security issues, and removed 17 harmful third-party libraries.
As one example, Dana Theorem helped the Evernote security team identify an analytics tracker that one of their product teams added to the code before it had been reviewed and approved. This saved the company from a potential privacy incident and having to notify its users about the issue.
Data Theorem
The importance of career pathing in the cybersecurity industry
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