COVER STORY: Bringing Aid to an Ailing Afghanistan

A young Afghan boy carries a plastic barrel of water at a refugee camp outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
Even within the capital city of Kabul, most people do not have a drinking-watersupply in their homes.
(AP Photo/Rafiq Magbool)
A Hartford Professor Helps His Homeland Recover

M. Saleh Keshawarz, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University, grew up in Afghanistan. He has made many trips back to his native country since 2001 to lend his expertise in such areas as water resources management and irrigation. Most recently, he has turned his attention to revitalizing engineering education at Herat University in western Afghanistan.


They Didn't Prepare Us for the Peace - Matthew Silver

Operation Iraqi Freedom concluded with a series of startling images, many of them positive, all of them pointing to unanticipated and historic possibilities.

Commencement 2003

COMMENCEMENT 2003 - Story and Pictorial
It was a picture-perfect day. Under a brilliantly blue morning sky, members of the graduating Class of 2003 were recognized for their academic success and received counsel from the diverse worlds of broadcast journalism, insurance, and the arts during the University's 46th Commencement ceremony on May 18.

COMMENCEMENT 2003 - The Class of 2003
How time flies! As avid Observer readers will recall, our Winter 1999 issue introduced nine wet-behind-the-ears freshmen as they began navigating their way through their first year on campus. Five of the nine remained and graduated this May. We now bring you the final chapter in their University of Hartford stories.

COMMENCEMENT 2003 - Awards
Five faculty members and three students were honored at Commencement.

Artist to Artist

Rita Garvin '05 is working with a troublesome batch of film. It is late afternoon on a dreary Wednesday in April. Garvin, a sophomore, and her classmates are hard at work in room 114, the black-and-white darkroom at the Hartford Art School.

The Unreal World of Reality Television

Ordinary citizens are deposited in a wilderness setting where they form tribes and battle each other in a series of "immunity challenges." A group of gorgeous young women vie for the affection of an attractive young man whom they believe to be a millionaire but who is actually a construction worker. Another young woman dunks her head into a tank to bob for rings that are floating in 50 gallons of cow's blood.


Editor-in-Chief:
Trish Charles

Editor:
Diana Simonds

Art Director:
Keith Campagna

Copy Editor:
Beverly Kennedy

Circulation Manager:
Dee Pistel

Contributing writers:
Kate Dougherty '01, '03; Jonathan Easterbrook '87, '90; Jenny Holland; Mark Hughes; Judie Jacobson; Barbara Klemmer '00; Erin Mason '00; Jessica Pizano '98; Missy Murphy Pavano '70; Matthew Silver; Terri Raimondi; Jill Thompson; Margaret Withey; Bill Yousman '99

Contributing photographers:
Steve Bamberg, India Blue, Howard Breitrose, Jeff Feldmann, Bruce Johnson, Steve Laschever, Robert Lisak, Lanny Nagler, Doug Penhall, Amy Rockoff '03, Steve Slade

Web Design: Jim Kalambokis


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