Kingan Named Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Michael Kingan has been named Southern’s new vice president for institutional advancement, effective July 9, 2018. He will oversee Development, Integrated Communications & Marketing, and Alumni...
View ArticleFood For Thought: Tackling Food Insecurity in the New Haven Area
About a quarter of New Haven residents don’t have enough food or enough money to buy food, and most people who can’t afford food don’t go hungry for just a day or a week — they experience food...
View ArticleBusiness Dining
Andrew Chu, ’10, MBA ’13, is energized by the lightning-fast pace of a restaurant startup. “If I went to a 9 to 5 desk job, I would be incredibly bored,” says Chu, director of operations for Junzi...
View ArticleLetter from Paris
A group of students, accompanied by Assistant Professor of French Luke Eilderts and Professor of Art History Camille Serchuk, recently returned from this summer’s International Field Study in Paris,...
View ArticlePhysics Adjunct Explores the Birth of Stars
Dana Casetti, an adjunct faculty member in the Physics Department, was featured on the front page of the New Haven Register (July 15, 2018) for her participation in two global projects in astrophysics....
View ArticleVivian Shipley and the Power of Poetry
English Professor and Connecticut State University Professor Vivian Shipley, an acclaimed prize-winning poet, was featured in an article in the Hartford Courant, discussing her work and career and her...
View ArticleDigging In for the Summer at Connecticut’s Oldest House
Anthropology students this summer have been exploring what lies underground on the property of the oldest house in Connecticut – the Henry Whitfield House State Museum in Guilford. Under the direction...
View ArticlePostcards from Italy
World Languages and Literatures Professor Pina Palma and Associate Professor of Photography Jeremy Chandler recently returned from the rich cultural region of Tuscany in Italy with a group of students...
View ArticleThe Leader
As a high school football star from northern New Jersey, Rick Capozzi, ’83, was being actively recruited by several NCAA Division I universities when he broke his back playing in an all-star game at...
View ArticleSTEM Teachers Come to Campus to “Gear Up”
Twenty-seven STEM teachers were on campus recently for the sixth annual Materials and Manufacturers Summer Teachers’ Institute, a school-to-career initiative that targets STEM skills instruction in the...
View ArticleSouthern and Shakespeare In the Park
Elm Shakespeare Company returns to New Haven’s Edgerton Park this summer with one of the Bard’s less performed plays, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Celebrating its 23rd season, Elm Shakespeare is Southern’s...
View ArticleWise Owls
Julia Rotella, ’17, excelled in honors-level courses at Masuk High School in Monroe, Conn., and had her pick of potential colleges. Drawing on her long-held interest in business — Rotella sold items on...
View ArticleFly Guys
You know your college business course is a standout when it inspires you to launch an actual business. So it was for Jack Dowe, ’17, and Gabriel Geist, ’17, who on April 12, 2017, exited Management 450...
View ArticleDean’s List for Spring 2018
Students at Southern are recognized for their high academic achievement by being placed on the dean’s list of their respective schools. In order for undergraduate students to qualify for the dean’s...
View ArticleStudents Can Earn Bachelor’s, Master’s Degree Combo in 5 Years
Undergraduate students at Southern soon will have the ability to complete their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a combined five years in several majors as part of a package of new accelerated...
View ArticleSolar Panels to Save $60,000 a Year
If you haven’t walked down Farnham Avenue lately, you should! A brand new solar array is under construction in parking lot 9 next to Brownell Hall. The array, comprised of more than 3,000 individual...
View ArticleSCSU Awarded 5-year, $3.7M Grant to Address Health Disparities in New Haven
Southern has been awarded a 5-year federal grant of up to $3.68 million from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in an effort to improve the health of vulnerable populations in New Haven. The...
View ArticleCity Owls
During the worst days of his childhood, Adam Christoferson, ’10, turned to music as both his anchor and escape hatch. As a kid, he recalls living with his mom, who had schizophrenia, in a...
View ArticlePresidential Historian, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Doris Kearns Goodwin to...
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. She will talk about her newest book, Leadership in...
View ArticleStudent Sculpture Reflects on Gun Debate
Southern art and sculpture students and faculty have collaborated on “Silence the Violence,” a three-dimensional work referencing the national debate about 3D printed guns. Their socially engaged work...
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