Yearly Archives: 2016

IBM Provides Boot Camp at SCSU on Data Analytics

IBM and Southern recently teamed up to offer a “boot camp” for about 70 university students and faculty members in the use of IBM Watson...

Kelp! Where are You?

In 2008, Sean Grace was helping one of his graduate students with her thesis on kelp growth in Long Island Sound. Back then, finding...

Urban Ed Fellows Provide Summer Books for Local Youth

Children at New Haven’s Strong School each received a book to call their own and read this summer, courtesy of a fundraising drive organized...

Science Students Seeking Ways to Hasten TB Test Results

While many college students are enjoying summer recess, a team of science undergraduates from Southern is hitting the lab on a mission to find...

In the News – June 2016

The New Haven Register ran a front page profile June 13 on Jonathan Wharton, assistant professor of political science, focusing on his new role...

Surfin’ Safari

The surfboard is such a part of American popular culture it is almost folkloric. Think “Surfin’ Safari,” The Beach Boys, “Beach Blanket Bingo,” Gidget,...

In the News – May 2016

The Connecticut Post posted an online article on May 27 about Southern's M.S. and 6th year certificate in reading programs earning accreditation from the...

Southern Student Earns Degree After 45-Year Hiatus

At the time, he was struggling with classes as he was working full time to support his wife and children. “I knew I could...

A Tale of Two Graduates

Mother’s Day is coming late for Elizabeth Reyes, who will celebrate not one but two Southern graduations on May 20: her own and that...

Graduating Scholar Almost Didn’t Go to College

In the spring of 2013, a string of her college applications had been rejected. By her own admission, she was not a very good...

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