It was a big year for the President’s Citation Selection Committee. Not only did the committee receive a record number of nominations, but this year’s class of President’s Citation Award winners was the largest to date at 10 students.
The award is given to graduating seniors who are nominated by members of...
Four of CCSU’s top students were among those selected for the 2017 Henry Barnard Distinguished Student Awards. Wyatt Bosworth, Nicole Dean, Jonathan Fisch, and Emily Gregonis were recognized at the 19th annual dinner and reception held on April 4 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington, Connecticut. The Barnard Awards honor...
If you happen to catch students and faculty playing in a sandbox in Copernicus Hall any time soon, don’t be alarmed. The physical sandbox is only part of the equation. When you add a 3D camera, a projector, and some software, that sandbox becomes a small world in which geologic concepts come to life. The device is known as an...
Her colleagues will say that Maria Alvarez loved three things: students, her work in the CCSU Registrar’s office, and volunteering at her local food pantry. Alvarez, who worked for the university for 32 years, died just before Christmas in 2015, but her legacy of love carries on at the new food pantry named after her. Located...
Thanks to a group of CCSU Music Education students, Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” now includes a part for Boomwhacker. Armed with the multi-toned plastic tubes, the students recently taught a more percussive style of the famous portion of the composer’s Ninth Symphony to sixth-grade classes at...
It is a rare 16-year-old who decides what she wants from life and then makes it happen. Sue Ann Collins ’75 BA Mathematics did just that. Growing up in small-town Maine in the 1960s, she excelled in math, but Collins’ parents were not college-educated and knew nothing about the kind of education that might shape...
