The Stags of Fairfield University will have some professional company this year. Major League Lacrosse has announced that the league’s newest franchise, the Connecticut Hammerheads, will host their games on Conway Field at Rafferty Stadium, which was built in 2015 on the Fairfield University Campus. Play for the 2020 season begins in late May.
Read MoreCT Humanities recently awarded $199,174 to nine Connecticut organizations to support capacity building, program implementation, planning, and partnerships. The locations of the organizations receiving grants included Bridgeport, Hartford, Litchfield, Middletown, New Canaan, New Haven, Norwalk and West Hartford.
Read MorePuerto Rican and Latino students at public high schools throughout Connecticut will have the opportunity to learn more about their ethnic history and culture as soon as 2021 thanks to legislation passed in 2019 with strong bipartisan support.
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Connecticut-based Americares has announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer Christine Squires will be the relief and development organization’s next president and chief executive officer.
Read MoreThe University of Connecticut is breaking new ground in Connecticut as the first college or university in the state to offer a four-year bachelor’s degree in American Sign Language. Students can begin declaring the ASL major on May 1.
Read MoreAt the junction of winter’s snow and the increasing intensity of the football season during the crucial run to the playoffs, have you ever attended or watched a football game and wondered how the stadium gleams so clear and pristine amid the surrounding piles and crusts of brown-tinged, half-melted snow and ice?
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In honor of the 100th anniversary year of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which not only gave women the right to vote, but ensured their access to the political process and opened doors for them to achieve their educational, economic, and civic goals, the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (CWHF) and the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) have collaborated, with the support of CT Humanities, to develop a new banner exhibit, entitled "Rise Up, Sisters!"
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he University of New Haven has more alumni from the nation of India (749) than the state of Texas (709). That’s just one of many facts and figures featured on a new website launched at the start of the new year to coincide with the year-long celebration of the University’s Centennial Year.
Read MoreCollege classes will be in session at historic venues throughout the city in the coming months as part of Capital Community College’s Hartford Heritage Project. The Bushnell, Old State House, and various sites that exemplify history and the arts will host place-based courses.
Read MoreBoston’s Logan International is far and away New England’s largest and busiest airport, by every measure. The battle for number two appears to be skewing even more strongly towards Connecticut’s BDL.
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