SOM Construction Worker Injured
by | Oct 19, 2011 1:02 pm | Comments (0)
A construction worker helping build Yale School of Management’s new $146 million campus landed in the hospital Wednesday after a steel brace fell on him.
Higher Ed
Advice Sought On Yale Deal, Power Balance
by | Aug 8, 2011 8:00 am | Comments (7)
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Goldfield: “‘Inartfully drafted’ is the understatement of the year.”
It began with a question over the Board of Aldermen’s role in renegotiating a 1990 agreement that closed a few blocks around the Yale campus to vehicular traffic. Now the board is seeking a broader legal review of its power versus that of the city administration.
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Aldermen Want 2nd Opinion On Yale Streets Deal
by | Jul 20, 2011 1:11 pm | Comments (21)
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Goldson & James: Unimpressed with City Hall’s answers.
To Yale, it’s an open-and-shut case: The city can’t ask the university to pay for the privilege of keeping streets around its campus closed to vehicular traffic. But a Board of Aldermen committee wants a second opinion — and one that’s independent of the city’s lawyers and Yale.
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870 Pass Through
A Diverse "Gateway"
by | May 27, 2011 11:45 am | Comments (1)
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Brazilian native and future nurse Claudia Lima wore a gold braid indicating she’s a member of the academic honors society. She wore the golden scarf indicating she achieved membership in the Phi Beta Kappa society. She wore them as she and 870 other graduates of Gateway Community College promenaded amid balloons and roses at the school’s 19th commencement exercises held on Thursday afternoon at Woolsey Hall on the Yale campus.
ROTC Returns To Yale
by | May 26, 2011 5:29 pm | Comments (0)
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Tom Opladen expects to see more than a dozen of his fellow Naval ROTC midshipmen from the Yale Class of 1966 at this weekend’s reunion festivities in New Haven. This time, they’ll have something extra to toast besides friendship: ROTC is coming back to the campus, for the first time in more than 40 years.
SCSU Breaks Ground
On $6M Biz School HQ
by | May 20, 2011 7:08 am | Comments (0)
Old student center to be refurbished as business school.
Southern Connecticut State University’s School of Business, which has been trapped in “disgraceful” quarters where rain runs down professors’ office walls and plugging in an extra coffee pot can stress the power for the entire 50-year-old edifice, can now look forward to moving into new digs.
Morand, Milstein, Alexander
Among Elm-Ivy Honorees
by | Apr 27, 2011 2:49 pm | Comments (3)
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Morand (at left) receiving a different award for community service earlier this year.
New Haven Reads founder Christine Alexander, longtime Yale-New Haven bridgetender Michael Morand, and Arts & Ideas and LEAP co-founder Roslyn Milstein Meyer were among this year’s batch of Yale-deemed good New Haveners.
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Court Rejects SOM Suit
by | Mar 17, 2011 7:18 am | Comments (8)
Rendering of the planned SOM.
Joseph Tagliarini will have to live with a new $146 million Yale School of Management “looming” over his house in East Rock.
They Have A Dream
by | Feb 28, 2011 11:39 am | Comments (4)
Students joined politicians and activists for a spirited rally in New Haven City Hall urging the state legislature to give undocumented young people a shot at the American Dream.
Rosa Gets Her Anecdote
by | Feb 25, 2011 9:45 am | Comments (4)
Evamarie Trimachi, a 41-year-old single mother and third-generation welfare recipient, earned an associate’s degree at Gateway Community College, moved on to a bachelor’s and is eyeing a masters. Federal education grants were essential for her move from “tax burden” to “tax payer,” she said as she called on her congresswoman to save those grants from the chopping block.
Gateway “Tops Out”
by | Jan 20, 2011 4:26 pm | Comments (1)
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It was the 4,521st piece of steel (more or less) — and the final girder placed in Gateway Community College’s fast-materializing $198 million new downtown campus. “The day has come,” Gateway President Dorsey Kendrick wrote on the beam. “We’ve finally arrived.”
Solomon Headed West
by | Jan 20, 2011 6:00 am | Comments (5)
He ran the housing authority. He helped fight a bank merger and launch a local community bank. He helped law students bring cases for free on behalf of people who couldn’t pay. He helped make state schools law. And he has always jumped into civic debates (by name, even in web comments sections).
$600M Project Wins
Final Public Approval
by | Jan 4, 2011 8:36 am | Comments (3)
Illustration by Jeff Stikeman, for Robert A. M. Stern Architects
As aldermen gave Yale the green light to drop $600 million on two new residential colleges, Alderman Jorge Perez touted the benefits to the city: jobs, fees, and an increase in Yale’s voluntary payment to the city.
$600M Yale Rez
Colleges Advance
by | Dec 14, 2010 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
In his first day in charge of his new committee, Hill Alderman Jorge Perez presided over the harmonious passage of Yale’s $600 million plan to expand with two new residential colleges.
Students March "The Beat"
For Peace Along Dixwell
by | Nov 10, 2010 8:03 am | Comments (10)
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“Stop the violence, increase the peace,” yelled Shelton Tucker, 35, from the back of the roving crowd. Gradually, voices at the front caught on, and the volume increased.
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For Peace Along Dixwell’
This Halloween,
Real Bats Are Scarce
by | Oct 29, 2010 7:46 am | Comments (0)
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A little brown bat snacks on a gypsy moth.
Most of us don’t pay much attention to bats except around Halloween, when bat-like rubber effigies appear on posters, in “haunted” houses, and on devilish front yard decorations.
And most non-bat experts have never seen an actual bat in the wild or backyard.
But they’re there. For now.
2 New Yale Colleges Advance
by | Oct 21, 2010 7:39 am | Comments (16)
Illustration by Jeff Stikeman, for Robert A. M. Stern Architects
Yale University’s two new proposed residential colleges, still called by placeholder names “North College” and “South College,” took a major step to becoming reality Wednesday night when the City Plan Commission provided initial zoning approval and gave the nod to go ahead with more detailed design.
Resolved?
by | Oct 7, 2010 11:56 am | Comments (4)
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Maggie Gallagher came to, of all places, New Haven and Yale to speak against gay marriage. It was an uphill battle. She was ready.
Apple Cored For $626M
by | Oct 5, 2010 4:33 pm | Comments (15)
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Gelernter
David Gelernter changed the way computers work. Now, having conquered the Apple Goliath in a landmark court case, will he help change the way often cut-throat tech innovators share ideas and credit each other?
Piqued SOM Neighbor Isn’t Giving Up
by | Oct 5, 2010 10:59 am | Comments (25)
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As Yale clears the way for a mammoth new $146 million School of Management building, attorneys for the university found themselves before a judge, still trying to prove that the bold glass and steel design fits in with the neighborhood.
Yale Plans New Campus—In Singapore
by | Sep 13, 2010 6:32 am | Comments (9)
As part of its growth as a global university, especially in Asia, Yale announced plans Monday morning to open a new college in Singapore.
SCSU Prof “Re-Victimized” After Graffiti
by | Aug 24, 2010 10:35 am | Comments (3)
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Deborah Savage felt frightened after someone sprayed a swastika by her office door. A month later, she said, she felt “victimized” again — by her university’s mishandling of the incident.
Meet “Mojo”
by | Jul 12, 2010 11:15 am | Comments (1)
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Nicholas Longrich examines a cast of the skull roof of a Pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur species that he recently named.
“Wait, this doesn’t look like a Chasmosaurus,” Nicholas Longrich thought two years ago, working in a researchers-only collection room in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Thus began a two-year quest to prove to the scientific world that he had discovered a new species of dinosaur.
Barber Receives
Lifetime Award
by | Jun 28, 2010 10:45 am | Comments (2)
Jim Barber has had a least four careers at Southern Connecticut State University. At 73, he has no plans to retire.
SCSU Prez Says Farewell
by | May 28, 2010 3:54 pm | Comments (5)
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Standing a few feet away from the man who forced her resignation, outgoing Southern Connecticut State University President Cheryl Norton quietly shed tears on stage at her final commencement Friday.