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Amid family turmoil, Naama Gorham thought she might not make it to high school graduation. On Thursday, she found herself not only receiving her diploma —but in the door with her first college credits.
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DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship winner Anthony McKnight Bowles.
The Dwight Community Management Team awarded its annual book fund cash scholarship to an 18-year-old neighborhood local who has dedicated his young life so far to community service.
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by | May 27, 2019 12:23 pm | Comments (2)
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Council member, QU alum Brad Macdowall
Brad Macdowall watched Hamden’s town-gown relations fall apart, from two vantage points. Now he feels he can help bring both sides together to help Quinnipiac University and Hamden prosper together.
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by | May 24, 2019 8:02 am | Comments (1)
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Many of the 809 members of Gateway Community College’s (GCC) Class of 2019 crossed the stage to pick up their diplomas Thursday after overcoming challenges ranging from raising young children to having to learn the English language in two weeks.
by | May 22, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (2)
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Anthony Campbell.
Anthony Campbell is returning to Yale for a third stint — this time as a top cop.
by | May 13, 2019 3:53 pm | Comments (26)
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Yale should scrap its daytime shuttle service and buy public bus passes for its students and employees.
Democratic mayoral candidate Justin Elicker listed that policy priority in a newly released “Jobs/Economy Platform” that envisions structural changes to the relationship between Yale and the city it calls home.
by | May 3, 2019 7:21 am | Comments (70)
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Inside the new Shiru Cafe on College Street.
New Haven’s newest cafe refused to serve me tea or refugee-made baklava. It refuses to serve the high school kids across the street, or tens of thousands of other people who live in New Haven. But it did try to sell me on its new business model for running a college-town coffee shop fueled by customers’ data.
by | Apr 25, 2019 9:40 pm | Comments (20)
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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Thursday afternoon to demand justice from Yale for an unarmed couple recently shot by a university police officer and a Hamden police officer.
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by | Apr 18, 2019 7:45 am | Comments (10)
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Abrams at Woolsey Hall as part of a two-day conference on democracy.
Political superstar Stacey Abrams stopped by her alma mater to to deliver a warning: a failure to protect the vote is costing us our democracy and our standing in the world.
by | Apr 17, 2019 12:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Union veep Philip Priore leafletting on Grove Street.
Yale police finally have a contract. Yale’s security officers took to the streets to demand the same.
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by | Apr 16, 2019 4:47 pm | Comments (11)
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Yale protesters blocking College Street on Tuesday.
Nearly 20 Yale undergraduates blocked traffic on College Street on Wednesday in a protest against a university policy that students on financial aid pay up to $5,000 every year to cover unbilled costs associated with being a full-time student.
The protest lasted for roughly 20 minutes, and ended with city police handing out 15 misdemeanor summonses for disorderly conduct. No students were arrested.
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by | Apr 4, 2019 1:34 pm | Comments (5)
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Carol Birks and Joe Bertolino sign partnership agreement.
High-schoolers will now be able to take real college courses right inside their high schools.
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by | Mar 18, 2019 4:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Mary Kaye Holmes at Monday’s Van Jones-led forum.
Mary Kaye Holmes finally got to Quinnipiac University Monday, but not as a law school student as she had once hoped.
She came as a guest speaker to tell how she went from incarceration to New York Law School — and how Connecticut can help other “second chancers” as it weighs the next steps in criminal justice reform.
by | Mar 15, 2019 7:36 am | Comments (3)
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New Haven/Hamden State Rep. Robyn Porter, pictured at the Capitol, is tackling hiring gaps for teachers and adminsitrators of color.
While proposals that would nudge small school districts toward regionalization might have attracted the most attention at the Legislative Office Building this year, a slew of lesser-known education bills could change the way kids learn, from preschool all the way through college.
Continue reading ‘School Discipline, Racial Diversity Targeted’
by | Mar 14, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (3)
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Near intersection of Ives Street and New Road, an area with many student-occupied houses.
Air conditioning for dorms in August. Tastier cafeteria food. Serving alcohol on campus to keep the kids from chasing the brewskies in town.
Those ideas surfaced during a testy back-and-forth over town-gown relations in Hamden.
by | Mar 12, 2019 6:13 pm | Comments (18)
Yale President Peter Salovey Tuesday called it “an affront to our university’s deeply held values” that a former soccer coach allegedly participated in a nationwide scheme to help rich kids cheat their way into Yale and other elite schools.
Continue reading ‘Salovey: “Profoundly Dismayed, Disturbed”’
by | Feb 22, 2019 8:58 am | Comments (30)
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Crowd Thursday night demanding Yale meet 1,000 local-jobs pledge.
For three years after graduating from Wilbur Cross, Carlos Hernandez has been trying to get a service job at Yale until he can afford to go back to school to study radiology. Though he has cooked in kitchens and cleaned in hospitals, Yale has rejected his applications.
by | Feb 8, 2019 4:59 pm | Comments (0)
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Running on cork: Quinnipiac’s women’s soccer team.
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Sal Filardi talking to engineer David Teter, while Bernie Pellegrino looks on.
Quinnipiac’s athletes will soon have a functioning synthetic turf field again, even with the winter freezes that have frequently turned the existing one into a sheet of ice.
Continue reading ‘Quinnipiac Turf Gets Green Light, With Conditions’
by | Feb 1, 2019 5:29 pm | Comments (3)
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Yale University President Peter Salovey with Western Connecticut State University’s mascot Colonial Chuck and Quinnipiac University’s’s Bobcat.
Who would be more inspirational to invite to your middle school college prep rally: A university’s president? Or its mascot?
by | Feb 1, 2019 8:31 am | Comments (5)
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Yale’s Karen King updates neighbors.
The Yale Divinity School has decided not to purchase a single-family home near its Prospect Hill campus, citing neighbor concerns about taking $20,000-plus off the city’s annual property tax rolls.
Continue reading ‘Div School Drops Plan To Buy East Rock Home’
by | Jan 29, 2019 8:54 am | Comments (0)
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Then-U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly at a 2015 press conference.
A former U.S. attorney who put gangbangers and opioid dealers behind bars is now looking to help Yale get to the bottom of an alleged sexual harassment by a former professor.
Continue reading ‘Deirdre Daly Tapped For Yale Sex Misconduct Probe’
by | Jan 24, 2019 5:17 pm | Comments (9)
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Gov. Ned Lamont joins helps cut the ribbon at Science Park Thursday with QCI co-founder Robert Schoelkopf, and Canaan Partners Dan Ciporin and Yale Vice Provost Peter Schiffer.
The quest to develop the supercomputers of the future is now taking place in part at the corner of Winchester and Munson, where a Yale-connected tech start-up formally has launched a new lab.
by | Jan 14, 2019 5:36 pm | Comments (0)
Leny Addiel Maldonado-Albelo gets his diploma Monday.
As a junior at Sound, Kevin Correa-Martinez missed more than 50 days of class as he dealt with family issues.
by | Jan 4, 2019 1:40 pm | Comments (0)
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Running on cork: Quinnipiac’s women’s soccer team.
A bid for a rubber college athletic field ran into interference in Hamden two weeks after a similar bid scored a goal of approval in New Haven.
by | Dec 20, 2018 4:06 pm | Comments (6)
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Fading memory: Yale faces Army on the grass.
Environmental concerns were not enough to stop Yale University’s plans to replace its natural grass football field with new synthetic turf.