The 2020 Connecticut Book Awards, a program of the Connecticut Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Library of Congress and a core program of Connecticut Humanities, will be held virtually at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, 2020. The awards honor the best books written in the past year that have specific ties to the state.
Read MoreThe National Inventors Hall of Fame has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. During those 47 years, 17 inventors with Connecticut connections have been inducted. Some are household names, others less so.
Read MoreA Connecticut-headquartered biopharmaceutical company and a Connecticut hospital are key participants in what is potentially the most comprehensive and promising research effort into finding an effective treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease - which has stubbornly eluded researchers.
Read MoreNational nonprofit organization the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, Citi Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the Wells Fargo Foundation, has announced that more than 50 city and county partner governments across the country – including New Haven and Hartford - are set to offer financial counseling and financial navigation services for their local residents in need.
Read MoreConnecticut’s 54.8% voter turnout in 2018 for the “midterm” elections ranked the state tied for 11th in the nation.
Read MoreThe Governor's Innovation Fellowship (GIF), administered by StamfordNext and supported by CTNext, has announced the first cohort of fellows for the program, scheduled to begin this month. Sixteen companies in Stamford will be providing positions for 18 recent college graduates, urged to “Become the next generation of great leaders in Connecticut.”
Read MoreAs Connecticut prepares to merge its 12 community colleges into one institution with 12 campuses, a new analysis suggests that the current configuration of the community college system is already one of the nation’s best.
Read MoreThree dozen Connecticut companies are featured in the 2020 edition of the Inc. 5,000 – the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America, compiled by Inc. magazine and issued this month.
Read MoreEven with the pandemic forcing students to stay at home, girls from throughout Connecticut – including Farmington, Hartford, Stamford, and Greenwich – and beyond are becoming CEOs and driving real social change in the process.
Read MoreA year ago, when the legislature held a public hearing on a proposal concerning “utility response times for restoration of electric service and utility minimum staffing levels,” Eversource Energy opposed it as unnecessary.
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