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YPD strike on the horizon?
The Yale police union has voted 51 – 0 to authorize a strike — as contract negotiations have hit an impasse over pay, drug testing, disability benefits, and timeframes for civilian complaints.
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by | Jun 6, 2025 1:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Dr. Sandra Bulmer.
Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) will be getting a new interim president, who will replace the school’s current interim president in July.
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High Street to remain a street, for now.
Yale has paused its planned conversion of High Street between Elm and Chapel into a pedestrian- and cyclist-only plaza — as it also pumps the brakes on other new-construction projects amid federal funding uncertainty under the Trump administration.
by | Jun 3, 2025 4:42 pm | Comments (7)
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Aspiring entrepreneur Makayla Martin ...
... at Tuesday's City Hall presser for the new Pennington Fellows.
Not so long ago, Highville senior Makayla Martin found herself standing atop construction scaffolding, gazing down at the the nails she’d hammered into a frame that would soon become a house for a neighbor in her city.
She was volunteering at Habitat for Humanity to qualify for a burgeoning local scholarship for historically Black colleges — a scaffold, of sorts, for the future she’ll build for herself next year at Howard University.
by | May 22, 2025 9:18 pm | Comments (20)
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Yale Prez McInnis at April inauguration.
Yale President Maurie McInnis sent out a university-wide email Thursday afternoon decrying a proposed 21 percent tax on Yale’s endowment that passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier in the day.
by | May 20, 2025 3:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Derek Faulkner, Rachel Jeffrey, Josh Hays, Alina Tran, and Dana Cody ...
... looking to grow a more resilient chestnut tree.
The long empty and frequently flooding Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) grassy field adjacent to the Ethnic Heritage Center at 270 Fitch St. is empty no longer.
Tuesday morning it was planted with eight little seeds that students and staff hope will grow into mighty chestnut trees as part of a new “demonstration orchard.”
by | May 13, 2025 8:23 pm | Comments (13)
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At Tuesday's hunger strike.
(Updated) A group of six Yale University affiliates abstained from eating for a fourth day Tuesday as part of a hunger strike in support of Palestinians at risk of famine in Gaza.
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Yale won’t be posting any new job openings between May 23 and June 30 — due to a long-planned shift to a new electronic hiring platform, according to university leaders.
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by | May 2, 2025 12:05 pm | Comments (9)
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Sam Moyn, M. Gessen, and Zack Beauchamp at Thursday's conference.
It takes perhaps a retired Reform rabbi to see beyond the agonized Talmudic pilpul, that is, the fine distinction-making between antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Yet a major take-away for retired Yale Jewish Chaplain Rabbi Jim Ponet from the two-day conference at Yale this week on “Antisemitism and the Crisis of Liberalism” was precisely that.
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by | Apr 23, 2025 2:58 pm | Comments (2)
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U.S. Sen. Paul at Tuesday's YPU debate.
Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul broke with Republican President Donald Trump during a Tuesday night speech at Yale — where he criticized the president’s tariffs for their “potential of destroying the American economy.”
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Beinecke Plaza at around 9 p.m. ...
... and after Tuesday protest had ended, at 11:30 p.m.
(Updated) Pro-Palestine demonstrators abandoned their eight-tent encampment at Yale’s Beinecke Plaza late Tuesday night — with promises to protest in East Rock Wednesday, when Israel’s controversial far-right national security minister plans to visit New Haven.
by | Apr 17, 2025 3:27 pm | Comments (6)
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Blumenthal: Visa revocations have been "horrific."
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal marked Thursday’s “day of action” for higher education by sending a letter to senior Trump administration officials demanding information about at least 53 international students across Connecticut who have had their visas revoked.
Blumenthal, Mayor Justin Elicker and 20 orange-clad members of Local 33, Yale’s graduate student union, also gathered on the second floor of City Hall to decry those visa revocations, which the senator described as an “attack on higher education.”
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All eyes (and phone cameras) on newly inaugurated Yale Prez McInnis.
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Meanwhile, pro-Palestine student protesters remained masked amid fears of legal retaliation.
Yale has “endured,” said newly inaugurated university President Maurie McInnis, through “the breeze of public criticism” over the course of centuries.
Outside, that “breeze” seemed more like a storm — from frosts over federal funding at peer institutions to the thundering chants of pro-Palestine protesters across the street.
by | Apr 4, 2025 10:46 am | Comments (5)
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Chemistry prof Nilay Hazari at WNHH FM.
In a Prospect Street chemistry lab, Nilay Hazari and his colleagues found a new way to help green the planet.
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Lisette Vega: Diversity helps make America great.
Lisette Vega arrived at a “Hispanic Business Excellence” celebration with a vision of starting her own international trade business one day — and an ear open for advice.
by | Feb 25, 2025 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Human brains at work: AI deployers Colleen Bielitz and Tom Goldenberg at WNHH FM.
Colleen Bielitz noticed something missing from the Otter AI summary of a discussion she had with colleagues: the “juiciest” comment one of them had made.
Thankfully Bielitz is a human being. She was able to think for herself about what she heard — and what seemed to matter most.
by | Feb 20, 2025 4:01 pm | Comments (35)
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City, state, and Yale leaders brainstorm "inclusive growth" over breakfast.
Over 150 Yale and New Haven leaders gathered amid sparkling lamps and plant walls at Hotel Marcel to start thinking about what a plan for tackling poverty and economic exclusion might someday look like.
by | Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am | Comments (1)
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Present at the ceremony, from left: Denise Morris, , VP Inclusion & Belonging, Employee & Labor Relations, Yale New Haven Health; Christopher O’Connor, CEO, Yale New Haven Health; Katherine Heilpern, President, Yale New Haven Hospital, Elissa Matthews; Kaeleigh Graham-Purdy; Janiya Greene, G. Brown Gervil; Raymond Lomax, Jr.; Ena Williams, Chief Nursing Executive, Yale New Haven Health; Jorge Rodriguez, Executive VP, Chief Ambulatory Officer, Yale New Haven Health; Pamela Sutton-Wallace, President, Yale New Haven Health and Melissa Turner, SR VP, Chief Human Resources Officer, Yale New Haven Health.
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) marked President’s Day by honoring five high school seniors who will receive $1,000 to help pay for their first-year college books.
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by | Dec 19, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (24)
5 demolished buildings to be repurposed as brick mural, on ground floor of new Yale drama building at Crown & York.
Yale won a key city approval for its plans to construct a new seven-story drama school and Yale Repertory Theater building — at a downtown corner where the university intends to demolish five existing buildings, and then incorporate the brick wreckage into a new mural.
by | Dec 2, 2024 8:20 am | Comments (34)
Yale's proposed dramatic arts building, circa 2029 ...
... to be located at York and Crown.
All the world’s a stage — for Yale, which plans to construct a new seven-story, 188,000 square-foot building for its drama school and the Yale Repertory Theater, to be located at the northwest corner of Crown and York streets.
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Sasa Harriott: "My fight was not over yet."
The crowd listened, rapt, as Sasa Harriott told them about her lowest point.
by | Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (6)
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The Whalley Ave. jail, as viewed from Hudson St.
Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.
Those stats and “un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.
by | Oct 2, 2024 12:37 pm | Comments (20)
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Don't look now, but this stretch of High St ...
... will soon be turned by Yale into a pedestrian utopia.
More lighting, moveable tables and chairs, a stormwater teaching garden, and an eco-friendlier “community plaza” open to pedestrians and bikes but not cars — except during Yale move-in and move-out days.
All of that is on tap for a portion of High Street, as Yale planners unveiled early-stage designs for how a city-owned downtown block will be transformed by summer 2026.
by | Sep 30, 2024 7:20 pm | Comments (36)
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Notice the "Q" lapel: Yale Associate VP Rich Jacob, at center, at Monday's Upper Science Hill groundbreaking with new Yale prez Maurie McInnis and Gov. Ned Lamont.
McInnis and Lamont kick up some dirt with Mayor Justin Elicker and Provost Scott Strobel.
A mystery letter “Q” lapel pin whispered a dream about New Haven’s future at a groundbreaking Monday afternoon for a project that will transform Yale’s campus at the border of the East Rock neighborhood.
by | Sep 25, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (1)
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Frankie Roman, Casey Gargano, and Patricia Melton at New Haven Promise.
Like the young people it helps develop into successful college students and adults, New Haven Promise has entered its teens full of growth of possibility.