The Devin T. Gaines Student Involvement & Activities Center
Today I was very pleased to read in the Stamford Times that the new Devin T. Gaines Student Involvement and Activities Center at our Stamford campus is nearly completed and will be ready for use when students return for fall semester. UConn’s Board of Trustees voted to name the new center in memory of Devin Gaines, Class of 2007, who died in a swimming accident last July after achieving the extraordinary accomplishment of earning 276 credits in five years, enough to earn degrees in computer science, cognitive science, theater studies, linguistics/psychology, and an individualized major in cinema, culture, and cognition. He accomplished this while maintaining a 3.2 grade point average. He had studied at both the Storrs and Stamford campuses.
Devin was a tremendous inspiration to all of us while he was studying at UConn, and he leaves us a legacy of achievement and joy of learning. He was a frequent volunteer at the Yerwood Center in Stamford, where he taught computer classes. He was also known for dropping in to fix the broken computers of his neighbors in the Martin Luther King, Jr. housing development where he lived.
The Center will be formally dedicated at a ceremony in the near future, perhaps during Welcome Week in early September. Devin reminds us all that every day is important, and that what we give to others today is what really matters. And he remains an inspiration for achieving our own dreams.























