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How Laurel Vlock Documented The Unthinkable

by | Feb 29, 2024 11:50 am | Comments (4)

The life and work of Laurel Fox Vlock (pictured), a TV journalist who founded New Haven’s Holocaust video archives, will take center stage at an event Sunday. Hosted by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, the event — the second annual Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program — begins at the New Haven Museum (114 Whitney Ave.) at 2 p.m. Click here for more details. Read on to learn how Vlock’s work broke new ground and resonates more than ever today.

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God & The Internet Meet At Albertus Magnus

by | Nov 6, 2023 8:42 am | Comments (0)

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Professor Schmidt with Edward Dunar, head of Albertus's Eckhart Center.

Ever have a long email exchange end in a sudden stoppage? You send a heartfelt one and there is no answer. Nothing. Nada. An empty slot on the screen. Well, maybe that feeling of sudden absence after an enveloping presence” of the Other might not be altogether unlike the way Adam and Eve felt when God cut off their account and expelled them from the Garden of Eden.

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WNHU Celebrates 50 Years On Air

by | Jun 5, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (3)

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WNHU's Jess Finn, Bruce Barber, and J.J. Dionisio.

This past weekend saw 88.7 FM WNHU, the award-winning venerable radio station of the University of New Haven, kicking off a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary with three days of alumni events that included a banquet, panel discussions, on-air reunions, and a shared hopefulness about the future of college radio. 

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New Site Spotlights Wrongful Convictions

by | May 8, 2023 1:28 pm | Comments (12)

From the home page of "Holding Me Captive."

Journalism professor Sarah Stillman and criminal justice reform activist James Jeter.

A local criminal justice reformer and a Yale journalism professor have teamed up to call attention to wrongful convictions in New Haven — and the systemic police patterns behind them — in a newly published online anthology of investigative reporting.

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High Schoolers Crack The Code

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.

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