by | Jan 20, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (3)
A German biomedical research institute is putting down roots in New Haven, with newly announced plans to move into a local lab space later this year as it partners with a biopharmaceutical company to study “immunology and tissue engineering.”
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by | Nov 16, 2022 2:18 pm | Comments (17)
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Yale's Peabody Museum, still closed for renovations, set to open in 2024.
A new lab and classroom building that will be nearly as large as Yale’s football stadium — at least in terms of square footage — is in the works for East Rock’s “Science Hill,” while a new hub for Yale’s performing arts is planned for a university-owned downtown corner.
Those are two of Yale’s largest new development projects slated for the years ahead, as announced in a recent building update sent out by one of the local Ivy Leaguer’s top officials.
by | Sep 28, 2022 9:26 am | Comments (22)
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Capt. Dell, who led probe into deaths of Maggie and Buttons.
A police captain has been assigned to supervise New Haven’s animal shelter — and remind the city’s animal control officer the difference between a dead cat and a live one.
by | Sep 16, 2022 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
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At Wednesday's press conference for the Elm City Bioscience Center.
City officials and bioscience-business boosters cut the ribbon for a newly opened lab and research building located in converted former offices downtown.
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by | Jul 14, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (3)
Covid-19 cases have shot back up over the past two weeks, to a level about 11 percent of the peak experienced back in January.
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by | Jun 10, 2022 10:34 am | Comments (3)
Arvinas summer interns at Thursday's event.
Samantha Tice is getting a chance this summer she’d been waiting for — to break into New Haven’s booming bioscience industry.
“I’ve always had a natural interest in science and I wanted to do something impactful,” Samantha Tice, a Masters student at the University of New Haven said. Now, an internship doing oncology research and testing drug interactions at Arvinas is providing her with the perfect opportunity to break into the bioscience industry.
Continue reading ‘170 Student Interns Kick Off Bioscience Summer’
by | May 30, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (1)
Aldo Salazar.
Aldo Salazar was sweating bullets while running his usual five-mile route from his place around Orange Street downtown to East Rock Park and back, before heading to a lab where he’s working on a different kind of circuit.
by | May 23, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (3)
Brisa Mendoza.
As downtown streets closed Monday to make way for a thousand parading Yale graduates, Brisa Mendoza was posted at the center of the brick Broadway center island reading Daughters of Sparta and taking it all in before starting her shift at The Yale Bookstore.
by | May 16, 2022 12:01 pm | Comments (5)
Metropolitan Business Academy 11th-grader Neiel Ventura at DAE.
High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has set her sights on a career goal in technology and has cultivated the skills to support it — and built her own website designed to sell sneakers.
by | Apr 6, 2022 5:06 pm | Comments (0)
If a new subvariant were to have created a new Covid-19 outbreak, it probably would have shown up by now in the wastewater — and it hasn’t, according to the man who checks.
Continue reading ‘Wastewater Numbers Suggest No New Covid Surge’
by | Feb 18, 2022 10:04 am | Comments (1)
Beonce Fraser learns about SPRINT intern program at Thursday's fair.
Business and marketing student Beonce Fraser, 20, didn’t consider working in the bioscience industry until she learned about a search for summer marketing interns in the field.
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by | Feb 14, 2022 1:12 pm | Comments (10)
Bearer of good news: Wastewater analyst Jordan Peccia reporting latest figures Monday on WNHH FM.
New Haven’s Covid-19 rate has by one measure dropped about 96 percent since the height of the Omicron wave and is continuing to fall.
Might it be time to retire mask mandates for now?
by and | Feb 8, 2022 3:58 pm | Comments (5)
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Jordan Peccia stopping on morning run from the harbor.
The word on Water Street Tuesday was … water.
Waste water, to be exact. In the puddles outside of Cody’s Diner, where Yale Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering Jordan Peccia was getting his morning feta cheese fix. And in the sewage helping Peccia put out the good word that the Covid-19 Omicron variant is continuing to fade.
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by | Feb 5, 2022 6:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Imam Saladin Hasan at Saturday's rally: "We are pro-help."
“You don’t set up trauma sites in communities that are already traumatized.”
Imam Saladin Hasan offered those words Saturday to a crowd of roughly 100 Newhallville residents and neighbors protesting the APT Foundation’s planned move of a methadone clinic to a former middle school building on Dixwell Avenue.
by | Jan 6, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (11)
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The former Quinnipiack Club at 221 Church St. (left), now owned by Biohaven, which has its headquarters right next door at 215 Church St. (right).
In a reflection of the changing makeup of New Haven’s business sector, a locally based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company has purchased the historic Quinnipiack Club building on Church Street for $4.1 million.
by | Dec 24, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (20)
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn atop a "detectable warning pad" designed to help blind pedestrians cross Kensington Street.
Giovanni Zinn is ending a busy 2021 with a new bridge to show off, not to mention speed humps and cycletracks and raised intersections all over town.
by | Nov 24, 2021 8:15 am | Comments (1)
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Les Sinnock leads students through the mobile lab, aimed at introducing them to high-tech manufacturing.
Huddled around a high-intensity microscope, Mauro-Sheridan eighth-grader Lauren Sellers and 12 of her classmates gasped as the tiny Abraham Lincoln statue etched into the penny came into full view.
Continue reading ‘“Cool Science” Pulls Up To Mauro-Sheridan’
by | Jun 23, 2021 8:17 pm | Comments (2)
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Craig Crews at center cuts the ribbon Wednesday surrounded by Chamber of Commerce prez Garrett Sheehan and Mayor Justin Elicker.
By cutting a ribbon to signal the opening of a newly renovated laboratory and office space in Science Park, Dr. Craig Crews added his company to the ongoing quest to turn New Haven into a thriving biotechnology center.
Continue reading ‘Biotech Start-Up Halda Therapeutics Opens SciPark HQ’
by | May 19, 2021 5:00 pm | Comments (38)
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Edible Couture’s Tisha Hudson: Too “complicated” to pivot yet.
Mask Liberation Day arrived — but you wouldn’t have known it on some city sidewalks or at local businesses like Rayon Market.
by | May 12, 2021 1:38 pm | Comments (0)
That big “Alexion” sign at the top of the 100 College St. tower?
It may soon read “AstraZeneca” instead, as the Cambridge-based drugmaker took one big step closer to a $39 billion takeover of the Boston-based biopharmaceutical company — with plans to keep Alexion’s 500 local workers in place. For now.
by | May 10, 2021 12:21 pm | Comments (13)
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At least two laptops needed at a time.
“Are there any volunteers at home who want to do this problem?” said New Haven Academy biology teacher David Herndon, addressing the portion of his class tuned in via computer. “Don’t all jump at once.”
His in-person students giggled.
Herndon switched his attention back to the physical classroom — and, like high school teachers all over New Haven, navigated a new normal of teaching two types of classes at once: Remote, and in-person.
by | Apr 21, 2021 2:41 pm | Comments (15)
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Updated construction schedule for 101 College.
Construction should begin in June on a planned new 10-story, 500,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower slated to be built atop the former Route 34 Connector downtown.
Continue reading ‘101 College Construction Start Set For June’
by | Feb 24, 2021 5:50 pm | Comments (5)
Chasing the brain: Yale neuroscience team at work.
Pumped: Inaugural neuroscience institute chief Nicholas Turk-Browne appearing Wednesday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
Inside a College Street tower, a soon-to-open institute will set inquiring minds to explore questions with implications for how human beings live in the future. Like:
• When are we responsible for our actions?
• What can the human brain do that machines can’t?
• How should we co-exist with machines?
• How can we best teach our kids?
• How do we come up with ideas?
• And … what’s the pope’s phone number?
Continue reading ‘Big Brains Prepare To Probe Big Questions’
by | Dec 23, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (3)
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Inventor Robinson with his cosmic AI elf (above at right and below).
Whether or not it snows Friday in the Elm City, Elf City is covered: It will definitely snow there. And all the kids will get presents.
How do I know that? I heard it directly from the world’s first artificially intelligent Christmas elf.
by | Dec 15, 2020 3:38 pm | Comments (9)
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First doses administered Tuesday afternoon to five YNHH employees.
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Man of the hour: Omari Bright drops off the goods Tuesday morning.
A hopeful new chapter in the Covid-19 pandemic began Tuesday afternoon as a dose of the vaccine that Onyema Ogbuagu worked on went into his arm.