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CMT Chair Kim Harris: How does the neighborhood benefit?
How will local bids for geothermal and political power translate into a more empowered Newhallville community?
That question arose repeatedly at the latest gathering of the Newhallville Community Management Team.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Turn Up Political, Geothermal Heat’
by | Feb 27, 2024 1:14 pm | Comments (21)
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Depictions of geothermal temperature control in both warm and cool months.
Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
by | Feb 20, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (30)
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Upstairs, downstairs: Roof goes on new luxury apartments at 201 Munson; rolling up a mattress before bulldozers come in to demolish a Lamberton Street homeless encampment.
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American “meritocracy” has become a trap for people at both ends of growing income inequality, in the view of a Yale law professor who has made a name for himself diving deep into the data.
by | Feb 7, 2024 9:20 am | Comments (15)
Yale offered a public hint Tuesday about a fraction of the plan it has in store for remaking a major downtown block.
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by | Jan 29, 2024 10:03 am | Comments (9)
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Anthropology major Chris Kowalski (above) and Aaron Goode (below) de-vine by Beaver Brook.
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Clip high, clip low, create a window. Also don’t be a Tarzan and pull on those cut vines lest you disturb insect habitats or the birds high in the trees above.
Those were among the illuminating arboricultural tips offered for some serious de-vining of New Haven’s invasive-threatened native oaks, maples, sycamores, and hackberry trees growing on a beautiful but under-loved patch of city-owned forested greenspace.
by | Dec 16, 2023 8:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Earth and planetary science PhD students Elly Goetz and Alex Ruebenstahl, voting "yes" on Local 33's first contract Friday.
At the 425 College polling place.
(Updated) Yale’s graduate teachers and researchers voted to ratify their first ever union contract with the university by a tally of 1,705 to 10 — making official a new five-year agreement that will see PhD students get at least 15 percent pay bumps and dental insurance, among other provisions.
by | Dec 8, 2023 4:51 pm | Comments (17)
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At a Local 33 rally on Hillhouse Ave.
Yale’s graduate teacher and researcher union has reached a tentative agreement with the university, which, if approved by a majority of its members, will grant the union its first ever contract — and will see PhD students receive at least 15 percent pay bumps and dental care, among other provisions.
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by | Nov 28, 2023 12:21 pm | Comments (12)
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490 Prospect St.: Now owned by Mandy, leased by Albertus.
Tapping “the current advantageous real estate market,” Albertus Magnus College has sold 20 units of student housing and related office and meeting space for $7.4 million to an affiliate of Mandy Management — and has entered into a long-term lease with the local megalandlord to preserve the property for school use.
Continue reading ‘Mandy Buys Albertus Student Housing For $7.4M’
by | Nov 22, 2023 1:42 pm | Comments (1)
DeJadonyea Council gets thankgiving turkey from Gateway’s new food pantry.
Twenty-five year old nursing student DeJadonyea Council cut the ribbon for a new food pantry at Gateway Community College then picked up a free frozen turkey and fixings to go with it for Thanksgiving.
Continue reading ‘New Food Pantry Keeps Gateway Students Nourished’
by | Nov 9, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (0)
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Sheila Carmon, Dr. Chaka Felder-McEntire (second from left), and Higher Heights high school students at Links annual gala.
The crowd listened, rapt, as Diane X Brown told her story.
The scene was a lavish Saturday-night black-tie affair in the ballroom of Hamden’s Cascade Fine Catering to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the New Haven Chapter of The Links, a historic Black female advocacy organization rooted in community service and philanthropy.
by | Nov 1, 2023 10:34 am | Comments (2)
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At the recent Q House youth-organized college fair.
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Q House youth leaders Xavier Jones, Kate Kim, and Eliana Cortez.
Hundreds of city teens got a chance to apply to colleges in-person in Dixwell — thanks to a Q House youth-led push to center the voices and needs of young New Haveners.
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by | Sep 26, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (1)
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Isiah Franklin, with Coach Alexander Baez and two Hartford baseball teammates: "Patience" is the word.
CC Sabathia: “I’ve been through so much on and off the field."
When CC Sabathia was nine years old, Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart visited Sabathia’s Boys & Girls Club — and that’s when the future Cy Young Award-winning left-hander knew what he wanted to do with his life.
It wasn’t just playing baseball.
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by | Sep 13, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (1)
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BioLaunch head trainer and lab operations manager Brionna Davis-Reyes sharing the magic of electrophoresis.
The opportunities must have sounded too good to be true for Alfred Washington, Elizabeth Cropper, and Shayne Miller.
But there they were, as part of an open house hosted by the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).
Washington, a trainee on the cusp of an internship at a New Haven biotech company, was discussing the separation of protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. Cropper, an instructor, was demonstrating blood draws in the phlebotomy lab. And Shayne Miller, a Culinary Arts Academy grad, was offering guests a cup of green tea lemongrass ice cream artfully wedged with a sesame seed cookie that he had earlier created.
by | Aug 31, 2023 1:10 pm | Comments (7)
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Yale Prez Peter Salovey celebrating town-gown deal in 2021.
Peter Salovey will be stepping down from the helm of Yale University at the end of the academic year.
by | Aug 22, 2023 3:44 pm | Comments (62)
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Mayor Elicker, with the Yale police union handout in his left hand and the 1975 "Fear City" flyer in his right: This is "unbelievably offensive."
Yale first-years Hunter Robbins, Amber Nobriga, Lisa Chou, and Shukraat Adesina give mixed-to-negative reviews of the Yale police union's "Welcome to Yale" survival guide flyer.
Yale’s police union helped introduce first-year students and their families to New Haven this weekend with death-decorated flyers warning them not to go out after dark, to stay on campus, and to avoid using public transportation — inspiring the mayor and a host of top city and Yale officials to denounce the apparent contract negotiation ploy as “shameful” and “unbelievably offensive.”
by | Jul 20, 2023 2:58 pm | Comments (4)
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Erik Clemons surrounded by daughters Kiara, Kai, Nyle, and Nia.
“Enter to learn, Exit to serve”: That HBCU motto resonated Wednesday evening in a lively celebration at the Stetson Branch Library at the Q House on Dixwell Avenue.
by | Jun 23, 2023 4:01 pm | Comments (1)
Don Harvey and Michael Rooker as 1919 Sox players in John Sayles' 8 Men Out.
Sayles, before the screening: "I'm interested in how we get to be where we are."
If you try for, say, ten or even 20 years and can’t get that movie script financed, just turn the tale into a novel.
Continue reading ‘Sayles Pitches Persistence & History At Film "Treasure" Screening’
by | May 22, 2023 11:32 am | Comments (0)
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Albertus Magnus College President Marc Camille (right) at Sunday's commencement.
Dressed in caps and gowns and with new diplomas in hand, 440 Albertus Magnus students graduated from the Prospect Hill Catholic college on Sunday — marking the school’s 100th such ceremony.
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by | May 1, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (7)
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Inaugural HBCU-bound Pennington Scholarship recipients, from left, Anaya Moore, Skye Williams, Tiara Walters, Laniyah McNeil, Antoine Pittman, Trinity Ford, Brianna Lane, and Migdalia Marquez at Monday's event with Promise President Patricia Melton.
Eight high schoolers made hopeful history Monday — and in the process helped New Haven confront historical wrongs.
by | Apr 28, 2023 2:35 pm | Comments (2)
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LEAP counselors in front of the Howard University bookstore.
The following writeup was submitted by Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership Inc. (LEAP) Communications Coordinator Nicole Jefferson, with excerpts from LEAP counselors, about a college tour of D.C. and Georgia recently led by the local youth services nonprofit.
by | Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.
A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer.
It does, however, if the green acre in question happens to be the garden at Albertus Magnus, a Catholic college in the Dominican tradition, where service and community are pillars of the faith of equal importance with the two others, study and prayer.
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by | Mar 8, 2023 12:26 pm | Comments (5)
Alfred Guy and Jennifer Frederick at WNHH FM.
How to serve man?
ChatGPT did not write this sentence.
Or any part of this article.
A human did. At least for now.
Continue reading ‘Abandon No Hope, All Ye Who Enter ChatGPT’
by | Mar 6, 2023 3:09 pm | Comments (4)
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EMERGE's Richard Watkins on Monday: Young people's voices matter.
Aspiring medical assistants, landscapers, and manufacturers now have a clearer path to career success, thanks to a new city grant designed to skill up New Haven’s workforce.
by | Mar 3, 2023 1:41 pm | Comments (1)
SCSU Prez Joe Bertolino, heading back to home state.
Joe Bertolino plans to step down from his role as president of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) this summer to take up a new role leading a university in his home state of New Jersey.
by | Jan 25, 2023 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Lauren had a dual mission as she loaded her stuff Wednesday morning into a friend’s car headed for campus.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Sisterhood Is Wow-erful’