Science/ Medical

Dinosaur World Evolves

by | Mar 11, 2024 5:24 pm | Comments (4)

Mohamad Hafez's "Eternal Cities: Excavating the Present and Unpacking the Past" in the reopening Peabody.

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Welcome back: A look down at the beloved brontosaurus skeleton inside the renovated Peabody.

I had a chance Monday to reunite with my childhood friend, a 65-foot-long brontosaurus, at a press preview of Yale Peabody Museum’s long-awaited reopening. I worried the once impressive prehistoric creature would seem small and feeble to me now that I’d reached my intimidating final height of five feet four inches. 

When I arrived, I found out that the 150-million-year-old fossil has evolved more than I over the last decade, sprouting 27 more tail vertebrae, a new front rib and an uplifted, wagging tail.

The museum, too, has evolved, as the public will find out later this month.

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Career Paths Opened At ConnCAT

by | Sep 13, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (1)

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BioLaunch head trainer and lab operations manager Brionna Davis-Reyes sharing the magic of electrophoresis.

The opportunities must have sounded too good to be true for Alfred Washington, Elizabeth Cropper, and Shayne Miller. 

But there they were, as part of an open house hosted by the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).

Washington, a trainee on the cusp of an internship at a New Haven biotech company, was discussing the separation of protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. Cropper, an instructor, was demonstrating blood draws in the phlebotomy lab. And Shayne Miller, a Culinary Arts Academy grad, was offering guests a cup of green tea lemongrass ice cream artfully wedged with a sesame seed cookie that he had earlier created.

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Lab Builder Buys "10th Sq." Corner For $10M+

by | Mar 14, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (16)

Rendering of a new lab-and-office building ...

... to be built by Ancora at SW corner of ex-Coliseum site.

A North Carolina-based real estate developer has purchased the southwest corner of the ex-Coliseum site for over $10.6 million — furthering an already-city-approved plan to build up that part of the property into a new 11-story lab and office building.

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Yale Chemical Safety Building Plan Advances

by | Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am | Comments (0)

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Yale's current Chemical Safety Building at 350 Edwards: To be demolished, according to Yale's Science Hill development plans.

Alders granted a needed parking-related approval for Yale’s proposal to knock down and construct a new chemical safety building off of Prospect and Edwards Streets — as the university moves ahead in the early stages of a broader plan for building up Science Hill. 

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$200K Bioscience Scholarship Fund Launched

by | Jan 31, 2023 5:09 pm | Comments (4)

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Laila Mohammed (right) with Gateway CEO William Brown Tuesday.

101 College: Bioscience labs, jobs, scholarship $ coming.

As a new lab and office tower continues to rise at 101 College St., Career High School senior Laila Mohammed has her sights set on growing science-career prospects of her own — thanks to a new $200,000 scholarship fund for public school students like her who live near the development and who pursue a higher-ed degree in bioscience or STEM.

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Yale Eyes Big Builds For Science, Drama

by | Nov 16, 2022 2:18 pm | Comments (17)

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Yale's Peabody Museum, still closed for renovations, set to open in 2024.

A new lab and classroom building that will be nearly as large as Yale’s football stadium — at least in terms of square footage — is in the works for East Rock’s Science Hill,” while a new hub for Yale’s performing arts is planned for a university-owned downtown corner.

Those are two of Yale’s largest new development projects slated for the years ahead, as announced in a recent building update sent out by one of the local Ivy Leaguer’s top officials.

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170 Student Interns Kick Off Bioscience Summer

by | Jun 10, 2022 10:34 am | Comments (3)

Arvinas summer interns at Thursday's event.

Samantha Tice is getting a chance this summer she’d been waiting for — to break into New Haven’s booming bioscience industry.

I’ve always had a natural interest in science and I wanted to do something impactful,” Samantha Tice, a Masters student at the University of New Haven said. Now, an internship doing oncology research and testing drug interactions at Arvinas is providing her with the perfect opportunity to break into the bioscience industry.

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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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(Waste)Water St. Report: Omicron Still Fading

by and | Feb 8, 2022 3:58 pm | Comments (5)

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Jordan Peccia stopping on morning run from the harbor.

The word on Water Street Tuesday was … water.

Waste water, to be exact. In the puddles outside of Cody’s Diner, where Yale Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering Jordan Peccia was getting his morning feta cheese fix. And in the sewage helping Peccia put out the good word that the Covid-19 Omicron variant is continuing to fade.

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