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Inside and (below) outside the lab office building at 115 Munson.
A Branford-based biotech company plans to move to New Haven, after signing a lease for a 9,800 square-foot lab and office space in in the former Winchester Arms factory in Science Park.
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Want to gerrymander, or un-gerrymander, a voting district? Try using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Want to draw the route for a snow plow that will avoid school buses? Look to your GIS. Want to notify a neighborhood about the location of a construction site? GIS again.
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by | Oct 19, 2020 10:33 am | Comments (0)
The Covid-19 pandemic forced Norwalk city employees, like those in the private sector, to work from home. Unlike other workers though, city employees have access to reams of sensitive information: tax records, HIPAA-protected health data, profiles of school children, arrest records and body camera footage.
With all of this information at risk, preventing a data breach is much more important than finding its cure, according to Connecticut cybersecurity experts.
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Emerging “Winstanleyville,” clockwise from top left: Temple Medical, 100 College, the planned new 101 College, 300 George.
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Carter Winstanley: Key player in city’s life sciences cluster.
Developer Carter Winstanley continued buying up swaths of the downtown business district — plunking down $21 million to purchase the nine-story Temple Medical Center and a portion of the accompanying garage.
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Superintendent Iline Tracey with assistant superintendent of curriculum, Ivelise Velazquez.
New Haven elementary schoolers will start off the school year with a home science experiment: What happens when they try to move a tissue with their breath while wearing a mask?
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A warning, and call to action, as tech giants prepare to testify before Congress.
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Blumenthal alongside researchers.
Yale School of Medicine needs some Heroes Act help from Congress — in order to fund the development of a Covid-19 vaccine that leaves no group of people behind.
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Teachers, parents paras protest in Hartford Thursday.
Sarah Miller’s backseat looked like it belonged to both a mom and traffic guard and on Thursday she was both. Eight bright orange, scuffed-up traffic cones were stacked on top of a well-worn car seat.
Miller, a mother of two, is an organizer with the New Haven Public School Advocates. She was on her way to the state Capitol to help lead a protest against an in-person reopening this fall, which she said will put her children and many others’ health at risk.
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The planned new 101 College St. biotower.
The city pulled in a $3 million state grant to help cover some of the infrastructure development costs associated with the planned new $100 million bioscience lab tower to be built at 101 College St.
Continue reading ‘City Lands $3M State Grant For 101 College Biotower’
by | Jul 9, 2020 3:31 pm | Comments (5)
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U.S Sen. Richard Blumenthal demonstrates “low-tech” ways to stay safe against mosquitos and ticks.
Scientists from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Thursday announced Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) may make a return this year and advised residents to take precautions outdoors.
Continue reading ‘Scientists Warn About Reemerging EEE, Lyme’
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Josie Jacob-Dolan’s project: working on a process that converts greenhouse gases themselves into energy.
What are doctors looking at in an MRI? Can researchers put an elephant in one? Are renewable versions of methanol as powerful in cars as gasoline?
Teens posed these questions to Yale University graduate students during what has become a weekly online series called Exploring Science.
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Seventy-five Engineering and Science University Magnet School students walked the stage at Lighthouse Point Park to receive their diplomas in the last of six drive-by high school graduations held over two days.
Continue reading ‘ESUMS Graduates 75, Celebrates Close Bonds’
by | May 29, 2020 9:25 am | Comments (1)
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The zoning district in question covers the border between Downtown and the Hill.
Committee alders gave a unanimous thumbs up to a proposed zoning change designed to pave the way for a greener city.
Continue reading ‘Green Standards For Big Buildings Advance’
by | May 28, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (15)
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Brian Wingate: “Only New Haven can do this in a pandemnic.”
Plans for a new 10-story, 500,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower to be built atop the former Route 34 corridor advanced with enthusiastic community support and a tweak to include Hill and Dwight residents in the benefits.
by | Apr 20, 2020 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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The IQVIA COVID Active Research Experience portal.
Researchers are short on organized information about what Covid-19 feels like for different patients, so the local bioanalytics firm IQVIA has launched a site to collect that information from volunteers.
by | Mar 23, 2020 4:32 pm | Comments (0)
Durland Fish Monday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
Maybe COVID-19 will lead to a cure for a condition that’s plaguing our ability to tackle pandemics — politicians’ allergies to scientific expertise.
Continue reading ‘Epidemic Doc: Science Should Guide Politicians’
by | Mar 11, 2020 3:13 pm | Comments (0)
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Krause (front and center) with her lab team at Yale.
Diane Krause was supposed to be making frantic arrangements right now to welcome 500 scientists, students, and state leaders to New Haven to share knowledge with and about the city’s booming bioscience scene.
Continue reading ‘COVID-19 Keeps Away 500 STEMmers, For Now’
by | Jan 23, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (26)
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Stored, unavailable science kits.
Elementary school teachers had to skip most science experiments planned so far this year — an unforeseen consequence of budget pressures that led the district to consolidate its buildings.
by | Nov 21, 2019 5:02 pm | Comments (3)
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The water was gushing, the sheet of steel inserted. And the newest engine of New Haven’s innovation economy was ready to roll.
by | Nov 18, 2019 9:11 am | Comments (0)
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Jeremiah maneuvers the robot during its visit to Stetson on Saturday.
Jeremiah, a 12-year-old regular at Dixwell’s Stetson branch library, often comes for the art books. When he walked in on Saturday, he was greeted by a whirring, zippy, four-wheeled robot and the team of high-schoolers who built it — and discovered a new reason to show up.
by | Oct 23, 2019 3:03 pm | Comments (13)
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Public Health Commissioner Renee Coleman-Mitchell.
An unsafe number of kindergarteners at six local elementary schools have been going to class without immunizations for measles.
by | Oct 11, 2019 12:53 pm | Comments (0)
Sophie Edelstein’s hip and leg surgeries got her interested in biomedical research — and set her on a path.
Continue reading ‘After Surgeries, Cross Student Found A Calling’
by | Oct 10, 2019 4:53 pm | Comments (11)
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Ricky Evans with Justin Elicker, Darryl Brackeen, and Chris Murphy Thursday at Ricky D’s Rib Shack.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy swung by Science Park to endorse a new generation of economic development — and political leadership — in a city booming with biotech business talent.
by | Sep 4, 2019 2:36 pm | Comments (1)
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Karen Kaplan, Ned Lamont, Jack Gaffney, and the hole Gaffney just smashed.
Gov. Ned Lamont held a yellow sledgehammer Wednesday morning at Hamden High, but he did not swing it. Rather, as governors do, he delegated that job to one of the 35 Hamden High students who aim to graduate high school with an associate’s degree in the new Hamden Engineering Careers Academy (HECA).
Continue reading ‘Lamont Hammers Open Hamden High STEM Program’
by | May 29, 2019 3:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Pablo Cruz, 8, Vinny LaRocca and Lucas Nichols, 13, navigating the Axis touchscreen remote interface.
Vinny LaRoca pressed buttons on a remote, and to the delight of second-grader Pablo Cruz, a $37,000 robotic arm got the message: It picked up a small plastic bottle of Irish moss.