Student Studies Electoral College, Reform Ideas
Until recently, the subject of the Electoral College only caught the attention of American citizens every four years – a time when people are reminded that it is the number of electoral votes, and not...
View ArticleStudy: Long-Term Use of Statins Increases Risk of Diabetes
Individuals who use statins for more than two years have an increased risk of developing diabetes compared with those who do not use the cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to a study by a Southern...
View ArticlePhoto Finish
Jefferine Jean-Jacques, ’18, has a way with a viewfinder — a gift that’s led the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to recognize her photographs among the best student work in the nation. In...
View ArticleHlavac Named Associate Dean
Following a national search, Dr. Craig Hlavac has been appointed as the associate dean for the liberal arts in the School of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Wesley O’Brien led a search committee in conducting...
View ArticleA New Pathway to Career Leadership Opportunities
Public utilities management is a field with an abundance of well-paying jobs and a soon-to-be-crucial deficit of managerial and technological staff. Utilities are major employers in Connecticut and...
View ArticleTeacher Takes Top Prize
With graduation fast approaching, Alice Obas, then a senior at Williams College, was considering an important question in addition to planning her next phase of life: who, among her former teachers at...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Program Again Named One of Best in the Country
The website LendEDU has released its annual Top 50 Financial Literacy Programs report, and Southern made the list for the third year in a row. After analyzing colleges and universities based on...
View ArticleRecent Graduate “Fell in Love with Southern”
As a high schooler, Haroon Chaudhry saw college like this: You go to class, you graduate, and you are done. “That’s all I expected,” he says, “to just do it.” Four years ago, Chaudhry was accepted to...
View ArticleWelcoming the Class of 2023: A Photo Gallery
Student Photographer Jason Edwards, ’21, captured the camaraderie and fun spirit of New Student Orientation 2019 in a lively photo gallery: “Welcoming the Class of 2023 to Southern Connecticut State...
View ArticleStanding Ovation
Jacob Santos, ’19, graduated in May with dual degrees — business administration with a concentration in accounting and theatre. Today, his education continues in both subjects thanks a prestigious...
View ArticleMSW Grad Hopes to Help Shape School Policy
When Southern student Cameron Hotchkiss, a graduate student in social work, interned with Cheshire’s Human Services Department — whose targeted clients are elementary, middle school, and high school...
View ArticleFootball Alum and Super Bowl Champ Andruzzi Receives His SCSU Degree
Southern football alum and Super Bowl champion Joe Andruzzi arrived on campus on July 22 with a goal in mind. Twenty-three years after completing his playing career with the Owls, Andruzzi came back to...
View ArticleBusiness Students Intern with Yale New Haven Health
For the first time, Yale New Haven Health has hired eight SCSU School of Business students as summer interns: Charlotte McMillan, Justin Paolillo, Sarah Thompson, Michael Agyeman, Amber Schultz, Taylor...
View ArticleFaculty Stars: Braxton Carrigan
Deliver to: Dr. Braxton Carrigan Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Dear Professor, You have been my inexhaustibly patient informal advisor. You entertain my half-baked math questions. You...
View ArticleDean’s List for Spring 2019
Undergraduate students qualify for the Dean’s List by completing 12+ credits in the fall or spring and earning a semester GPA of 3.5 or better. Congratulations to our 2019 Dean’s List recipients!...
View ArticleFulbright Scholar Based in the Netherlands
Alanna Wagher, ’16, M.S. ’18, is a gifted scholar. She graduated summa cum laude from Southern with a bachelor’s degree in communications disorders — then excelled in the university’s highly regarded...
View ArticleCommemorating the 400th
August 1, 2019, marked the month of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in America 400 years ago. Journalism Professor Frank Harris III has created a website to commemorate the first Africans...
View Article“Telling the Truth” About Racism
New Haven’s Daily Nutmeg website has kicked off its Summer Reading Month series with a profile of English Professor Tim Parrish, a founder of the university’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing...
View ArticleRN to BSN Student Named Yale’s 2019 Magnet Nurse of the Year
Described by her mentors as exemplifying Florence Nightingale’s vision of nursing, Karen Reyes Benzi, RN, was named Yale New Haven Hospital’s 2019 Magnet Nurse of the Year on July 3 for her outstanding...
View ArticleFaculty Stars: Meredith Sinclair
Deliver to: Dr. Meredith Sinclair Assistant Professor of English Department of English Dear Professor, Thank you for devoting countless hours to advising your students, formally and informally, and...
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