Volume 6, Number 3 - Fall/Winter 2005


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Breaking the Grip of Addiction
UConn researchers are helping to discover new and
better ways of treating all types of addictions with strategies including cognitive behavioral therapies and medication.
By Alix Boyle • Art By Greg Spalenka
Image: UConn's Fuel Cell Center

The Writing Life at UConn
UConn’s renowned writing culture has endured
for more than 40 years thanks to a productive and
congenial group of novelists, biographers and poets.
By Jim H. Smith



Illustration: Patient and Doctor
Helping to Keep the Peace
As chief of civilian training and development for United
Nations peacekeeping operations, Dawn Denvir ’81 (SFA)
works in a world where politics, human rights and nation
building come together. By Kenneth Best


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