Freund on WNPR, Carson in West Hartford Life, Peters on WPLR, and New HAS Dean Stuart in the Associated Press

Richard Freund, director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University, was a guest on WNPR Radio (90.5 FM) and the “Colin McEnroe Show” on Monday afternoon, Aug. 29. Freund was part of a discussion of how science and archaeology can be used to validate the stories in the Bible and other religious texts. “I take the Bible seriously, but not literally,” Freund says. Listen to the show here.

The announcement that the University had named Nancy Stuart as the new dean of its Hartford Art School generated quite a bit of coverage after Associated Press distributed the news on its wire on Monday, Aug. 29. Among the media outlets picking up the story were the Washington Examiner, the Houston Chronicle, the Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun, the Cleveland.com, the Daily Journal of Johnson County, Ind., and News 8 WTNH.com in New Haven. In addition, the Hartford Business Journal did a story that you can see here.

John Carson, vice president for university relations, discussed the potential sale of the University’s Asylum Avenue campus to the Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) in a story that was posted to My West Hartford Life.com on Tuesday, Aug. 30. Click here to read the story.

J. Lee Peters, University vice president for student affairs, was a guest on WPLR Radio (99.1 FM) on the “Chaz and AJ in the Morning” show on Wednesday, Aug. 24. Peters was discussing topics from the book that he co-authored with Sue Fitzgerald, senior advisor to the president and associate secretary of the University — the third edition of The Everything College Survival Book: All You Need to Get the Most Out of College Life, published by Adams Media Corporation. Click here to listen to the interview.