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DesignedBlack was a club started by Solange Wright in response to a perceived lack of diversity in the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts. 

'They're learning about politics. They're learning about the inner workings of Stamford. And then they're also learning their technical ...

A pilot coop program at UConn’s Stamford campus this fall will train students interested in entrepreneurship how to develop new products, while hopefully creating intellectual property like prototypes and patents. Students working for the program will take one or two semesters off from academic work to live on UConn’s Stamford campus, where they will be paid as full-time employees by the university’s Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Image Tara Watrous If it’s success...

In this second episode of Amplified, DesignedBlack President Solange Wright interviews UConn alum, Nathan Smith. Nathan is CEO of Cultivation, a digital branding agency based in Bridgeport, CT. The two talk about what life looks like after college, and how sometimes the best opportunities that happen are the ones you create for yourself.  For more…

Amplified, e-board members introduce themselves and talk about personal experiences at UConn as a black digital creative. Amplified is a chance for black creatives to speak about issues that concern us through a non-traditional perspective: a creative one.   Co-hosts: