Enjoy this unique exhibition of rock music memorabilia from the archive of editor, journalist, and radio disc jockey Ken Best. This personal collection features decades worth of iconic photos, album covers, posters and promotional materials that Best has amassed while writing about music for newspapers in New Jersey and Connecticut and interviewing musicians and authors on the radio at WPKN in Bridgeport and WHUS in Storrs. Highlighted will be 50 photos of major rock 'n' roll figures by Connecticut photographer Joseph Sia, including his famous image of Jimi Hendrix at Woolsey Hall in New Haven in 1968, known as "The Shadow," from Best and Sia's 1992 book,Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock 'n' Roll (Pomegranate Books).

Opening reception will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the gallery.

Neurosurgery Thursday Residency Curriculum SeriesProvided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the UConn Health Department of Neurosurgery.Speaker: Inam Kureshi, MDDate: Thursday, August 14, 2025Time: 6:00am- 7:00amLocation: UCHC/UConn ASB Conference Room & WebEx Live VirtualTarget Audience: UCHC/UConn Health faculty and affiliated faculty: Primary Care physicians, APRN's, students, residents, Neurosurgeons, PA's, any other clinicians involved in the management, care, and treatment of patients with neurosurgical needs pertaining to brain and spine disorders.Topic Title: Trauma Case  Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):Review types of subaxial (C3-7 injuries) and treatment subaxial spine injuries. Describe sports related subaxial spine injuries, vertebral artery injuries and delayed cervical spine instability. Discuss the management guidelines for traumatic spine injuries.  Speaker Disclosure Statement: Dr. Kureshi, in their role as speaker for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. Dr. Kureshi will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device.  Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.Activity Director Disclosure Statement: Dr. Bulsara, as the activity director, for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed.Planning Committee Disclosure Statement: Dr. Bulsara, Dr. Kureshi, and Natasha Judge as member(s) of the planning committee, for this educational event, has/have no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed.Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.          Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. An email from MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to participants. Please complete the evaluation within 10 business days of receiving the email. If you do not receive an evaluation assignment from MyEvaluations.com within 5 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) or Natasha Judge (njudge@uchc.edu) to ensure that your MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office. All evaluations must be completed within 10 business of receiving the email evaluation assignment.

Write your memoirs to share in class. These can be short unrelated pieces or part of a larger work. New members are welcome.Facilitator: Cathy Belanger

Write your memoirs to share in class. These can be short unrelated pieces or part of a larger work. New members are welcome.Facilitator: Cathy Belanger

Colleen Vesely, Ph.D., George Mason University Topic: Inclusive Early Education Environments and Utilization of Community-based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) ApproachesRegister (https://chip.uconn.edu/inchip-lecture-colleen-vesely-ph-d/)Colleen K. Vesely, Ph.D (https://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/cvesely/)., is an associate professor and graduate Academic Program Coordinator (APC) of Inclusive Early Childhood Education in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Vesely's scholarship uses Community-based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) approaches to transform systems of oppression and injustice within early care and education to create equity. Specifically, Dr. Vesely examines the experiences of young children and families who experience structural marginalization to understand how they navigate early care and education systems and spaces while negotiating parenthood in the U.S. She studies family partnership and family-led systems change, particularly among families from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, and ability backgrounds. Dr. Vesely also leads work focused on developing preservice early childhood education teachers' knowledge, skills, and abilities for implementing antiracist pedagogy in their early childhood classrooms and programs. Dr. Vesely also contributed to creating tools to examine college-level equity data specific to race and gender. Dr. Vesely facilitates the Child Care and Early Education Research and Policy Consortium (within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) Research Collaborative on Reimagining Family Partnership for Equity in Child Care and Early Education. Dr. Vesely's work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation (current Vision Grant Scholar), Fairfax County Office for Children, Bruhn Morris Family Foundation, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bernard van Leer Foundation.

3-6:30pmAt The BeaneryThe Beanery Café is open for drinks and snacks3:30-6:15pm SUBOG hosts an Open Mic evening with limited free coffee and baked goods for students4:30-7pmIn the Galleries:Visit with cute pet Therapy Dogs Maui and Grant Live DJ with WHUS Craft: Color your own Tarot Card Pick up an art sticker Do a fun scavenger hunt in the galleries with friends Pick up a library book 20% off in the Museum Store all day

A reception will be held in the Starr Reading Room at 5:30 PM, with the competition proceeding in the Davis Courtroom at 6:30 PM.