Gray in Hartford Courant, Sekou on Fox CT, Anti-Bullying Conference on WFSB-TV, and More

Kevin Gray, associate professor of theatre at The Hartt School, was profiled in a feature story in the Hartford Courant’s “Arts” section on Sunday, Dec. 4. Click here to read about his transition from being an actor (including being the youngest actor to have played the title role in Broadway's "The Phantom of the Opera") to being a teacher of music-theater and actor-training students.

Bilal Sekou, associate professor of political science in Hillyer College, was a guest on the “Stan Simpson Show” which aired on Fox CT on Saturday, Dec. 3. Sekou discussed the ups and downs of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. To view the segment, go to the Stan Simpson Show and select the video clip titled “GOP and Occupy Protests 12/4.”

The New England Anti-Bullying Conference 2011 was held on campus on Friday, Dec. 2, and presented by the Ceceilyn Miller Institute for Leadership and Diversity in America, the Hartford Public Schools, and the Institute for Translational Research (ITR) at the University's College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions. The conference generated stories on Fox CT and WFSB-TV, which can be seen here, and was previewed extensively on both WFSB and WTNH NewsChannel 8.

Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, and students from his freshman seminar class, titled "Beyond the Dreamer: The Life and Work of Martin Luther King Jr.," were featured in a broadcast of the class on Saturday, Dec. 3, and Sunday, Dec. 4, as part of the C-SPAN cable channel's American History TV "Lectures in History" series. Click here to watch the class.