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The Effects of Cancelled Leisure Activities
In a recent article in The New London Day, Lee deLisle, a professor in the Department of Recreation, Tourism, & Sport Management, discusses the impact that COVID-19 has had on our favorite leisure...
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10 Mental Health Tips to Cope with Social Distancing
Social distancing and the closing of typical meeting places are designed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus). Public health officials believe these steps can be effective tools...
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Uncharted Waters for Athletes
Athletic Director and mayor of Manchester, Conn., Jay Moran talks about the challenges of dealing with the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic. A column about Athletic Director Jay Moran in the...
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Art Faculty Receive Awards from State Office of the Arts
Three members of the Art Department faculty have received grants to support their work through the Artist Fellowship Program of the Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA). Art Professor Thuan Vu, a...
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The Pandemic and the Presidential Election
With a pandemic sweeping the globe, it can be easy to forget that the United States is in a presidential election year. Jennifer Hopper, associate professor of political science, was interviewed...
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Grad Awarded Fellowship for Foreign Service
Congratulations to Collin Walsh, ’08, who was awarded a highly prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship for 2020. Designed to prepare outstanding young people for Foreign Service...
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Hollywood and Pandemics
You’ve probably said it to yourself more than once during the past few weeks: “I feel like I’m living in a movie.” The coronavirus pandemic has turned people’s lives upside down, and the daily news...
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HHS Alumni on the Ground with COVID-19: Andrew Toce, ’14
Andrew Toce, ’14, LPC, ADS, works in his own private counseling practice, with a focus on sports psychology. Read our interview with him and learn how he is continuing his work amidst the COVID-19...
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Living in the Age of Coronavirus
Journalism Professor Frank Harris III, an award-winning columnist for the Hartford Courant, speculated about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in a recent op-ed, “We don’t know where the...
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Easing Pets’ Stress During the Pandemic
Sally Sizer, who works as a secretary for the Department of Recreation, Tourism and Sport Management at Southern and a professional dog trainer, offers five quick tips on pet care during the...
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Solar Southern
Solar power provides approximately eight percent of the electricity used at Southern — thanks to two multifaceted solar installations on opposite sides of campus. Combined they produce almost 2...
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Dealing with Grief in an Uncertain Time
The New Haven Independent ran an article, “SCSU Prof, Students Work Through The Covid Grief” (March 31, 2020), about Frank LaDore, director of Transfer Student Services, who teaches the Death, Dying...
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Field House Becomes Field Hospital
Trucks with hospital beds and medical equipment pulled up outside Moore Fieldhouse on March 31, 2020, as the National Guard began the assembly of a 300-bed “Connecticut Medical Station” inside the...
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Coping Strategies for Elders who Feel Socially Isolated
Jack Gesino, an associate professor of social work at Southern who specializes in elder care, said that social isolation and loneliness can alter a person’s genetic response to disease even in normal...
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Answering the Call for Help
Members of the Southern community step up to donate masks, gloves, food, supplies and more Suzanne Huminski hadn’t looked at her sewing machine in 17 years, but when she heard that area hospitals were...
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Helping those Fighting Covid-19
David Denino, ’75, M.S. ’76, trained as a Red Cross crisis responder following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Today, he’s supporting those fighting coronavirus-19 in...
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Owls Smash School Records in Prestigious Math Competition
Southern reached an historical apex recently in the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition – commonly known as the Putnam Exam – where its math team competed against many of the top...
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Can “Safe Store” Protocols Slow the Spread of Virus?
New “Safe Store” rules took effect in Connecticut recently in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus in grocery stores and others of the few remaining public spaces open to groups of people....
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Probing the Nature of COVID-19
Sarah Crawford, professor of biology and a virologist, was interviewed recently on WICC radio (600 AM) about the makeup and behavior of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The interview took place during the...
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Alumni Lens: Life in Spain During the Pandemic
Spain — one of the nations most affected by the coronavirus pandemic — began a government-ordered nationwide lockdown on March 14, 2020. Southern graduate Victoria Conde, ’17, a native of Madrid, is...
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