Connecticut Humanities (CTH), the state’s affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and counterpart to the state’s Office of the Arts, will be providing grants to fifty nonprofits in Connecticut totaling $1.5 million, in support of their efforts to sustain operations despite the significant adverse financial impact of the pandemic.
Read MoreSeven women in the accounting profession are being honored this week by the Connecticut Society of CPA’s (CTCPA), the second year that the organization has shined a spotlight on women making their mark in leadership and management in private firms, large corporations or non-profit organizations in Connecticut.
Read MorePeople in Connecticut and across the country are increasingly being told to function from home instead of in-person, but they “don’t have the one essential utility – broadband service” … defined as ”fast, reliable internet service.”
Read MoreThe Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization focused on health care safety and quality, has released its annual Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which show that seven Connecticut hospitals earned an “A” grade.
Read MoreWhen schools shut down in March, teacher education programs were left scrambling. Eastern Connecticut State University’s highly regarded Early Childhood Education (CECE) filled the void, in Connecticut and beyond, when teachers were without placements where they could observe children in real time.
Read MoreThe daughter of immigrants to Connecticut from Kenya and the daughter of Afghan refugees who immigrated to Connecticut have accomplished in back-to-back years what no student of Connecticut’s state universities has ever done.
Read MoreConnecticut Humanities (CTH) has received $55,485 from The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts to support content development and expanded access for Teach It, CTH’s online resource which provides educators and students with inquiry-based activities, primary source documents, and links for further exploration. The funds will allow development of 36 new topics in the statewide program.
Read MoreConnecticut is one of a growing number of states, school districts and schools nationwide that has implemented the National Center for School Mental Health's School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation System (SHAPE), according to a recent newsletter published by program partner Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI).
Read MoreThe Yale School of Public Health has been on a roll during the past few months, even as it was encountering a noisy bump in the road. The good news: Dr. Anthony Fauci, will give the 2021 commencement address. Marcella Nunez-Smith will serve in the incoming Biden Administration, leading a new COVID-19 task force on equity issues. But there’s more swirling about.
Read MoreAn initiative launched in Connecticut is taking direct aim at opening up the way in which critical research is funded, with the most elusive of illnesses – cancer – clearly in its sights. It is innovative crowd-funding, designed to fill the funding gap that has proven to be a hurdle that many biotech cancer research initiatives – despite how promising they may be - just can’t get beyond.
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