Elihu Yale; William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire; Lord James Cavendish; Mr. Tunstal; and Enslaved Servant, ca. 1708
“Nothing is known about the boy on the right, who has just finished pouring Madeira (a sweet, fortified wine) into the glasses on the table… the silver collar and padlock around his neck indicate that he is enslaved.”
So begins the curator’s comment for a portrait of Elihu Yale, one of three paintings in Yale University’s collection that depicts a slave attending to Elihu the slavemaster.
DeBorah Davis Scholarship winner Sam Koroma and his mother.
When Sam Koroma moved from Sierra Leone to the United States, he did not expect ever again to participate in community service. He had gleaned from U.S. television shows and movies that his future home has no poverty.
Southern Connecticut State University, Gateway Community College, and other state colleges and universities are planning to resume in-person classes this fall, according to the state higher education system’s president.
December will be a “quiet period” on Yale’s campus now that the university has decided to push entirely online the last week of classes, reading period, and final exam period for the coming fall semester.
Seniors Daniela Flores (left) and Ciara Ortiz Diaz.
Pandemic-related travel limitations helped two star New Haven high schoolers pick Yale over other Ivy League as the next stop in their academic careers.
Leslie Asanga was on a mission as he popped out of a rented Mitsubishi Wednesday — to help seniors and other vulnerable people get their medicine without risk of contracting Covid-19.
Author Neil Proto went to Yale’s library to start researching the life of A. Bartlett Giamatti, the 39-year-old Italian-American with New Haven roots who became the Ivy League university’s first non-Anglo-Saxon president.
He came across a statement that stunned him — and steered him in an unpredictable direction.
On Wednesday, Harvard announced it would not take $8.6 million it had originally planned to spend in federal emergency relief to cover losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Princeton and Stanford made similar announcements.
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Mom Aisha K. Staggers and daughter Amaya Elle Kelly.
The class of 2020 will forever remember this year as the one where everything in their world was turned on its ear and they were forced to learn early in life that normalcy can often be mistaken for complacency. At least that is what I observe in watching how the coronavirus is affecting my daughter, who is a member of that class at Hamden High School.
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Guard members unloading medical supplies at SCSU.
The National Guard has begun work on a temporary “surge” hospital on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) to help ease the potential health-care crisis in town once the Covid-19 spread peaks.
At the same time he immediately agreed to help the city house firefighters and cops in student dorms amid the Covid-19 outbreak, University of New Haven President Steven Kaplan was wrestling with tough financial financial decisions on campus.
Elicker at presser: Yale snubbed “neighbor” in time of need.
Mayor Justin Elicker announced the second New Haven death from Covid-19 and thanked University of New Haven for stepping in after Yale refused to make dormitory rooms available to cops and firefighters for isolation.
The mayor also urged parents to keep children off playgrounds.
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Quinnipiac’s Mount Carmel campus, just after classes were canceled for the remainder of the semester.
As businesses and organizations across the country cut back on staffing because of the economic havoc wrought by the Covid-19 virus, Quinnipiac University notified faculty and staff Monday afternoon that their salaries will take a hit from the virus.
Yale has repurposed a complex in its Payne-Whitney Gym into a subacute-care facility for university community members who have contracted covid-19 but don’t need to go to the hospital.
The beds are in place in the now-closed gym’s spacious Lanman Center, which in non-conavirus-shutdown days houses basketball, volleyball, and badminton competitions.
Connecticut’s state college and university system has decided to cancel in-person classes through “at least” the end of the semester along with commencement exercises.
Classes will take place online at least through the spring.
Yale has decided to direct students on spring break to stay home and take their courses online through the rest of the semester because of the spread of COVID-19.
It is also directing all “non-essential” employees to stay off campus and work remotely.
