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Eastern's Pre-College Summer returns with more offerings for high schoolers
Eastern Connecticut State University is excited to welcome high school students to campus this July for its second annual Pre-College Summer. Following a successful inaugural run in 2023, the residential summer program is returning with additional sess...
Jan 17, 2024, 7:53am EST
Historian publishes 'Polish American Voices,' recounting 400 years of immigrant history
Eastern Connecticut State University Professor Emerita Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann's new book, "Polish American Voices: A Documentary History, 1608-2020," compiles 145 documents of Polish American immigrants and their descendants, telling more than 400 ...
Jan 11, 2024, 2:08pm EST
Westbook academic publishes dictionary of horror stories
Wolfmen, witches, vampires and zombies loom in tales told by humans for more than 6,000 years. That history is chronicled in a new book by a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University titled "Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature." "I've a...
Jan 9, 2024, 1:59pm EST
Eastern professor publishes dictionary of horror stories
Wolfmen, witches, vampires and zombies loom in tales told by humans for more than 6,000 years. That history is chronicled in a new book by a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University titled "Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature." "I've a...
Jan 9, 2024, 1:56pm EST
Women's basketball to hold annual breast cancer awareness game
Eastern Connecticut State University's women's basketball team will host its annual breast cancer awareness game on Jan. 27 in the Geissler Gymnasium against the University of Southern Maine. With a fundraising goal of $7,500, donations will benefit th...
Jan 8, 2024, 9:19am EST
Biologists confirm local lore that Nantucket's deer boom stems from two Michigan does
Most of the deer on Nantucket Island, which has one of the densest deer populations in the Northeast, likely descend from two does that were introduced to the island from Michigan in 1926. This conclusion is found in a new research paper in "Northeaste...
Dec 18, 2023, 2:26pm EST
Biologists confirm local lore that Nantucket's deer boom stems from two Michigan does
Most of the deer on Nantucket Island, which has one of the densest deer populations in the Northeast, likely descend from two does that were introduced to the island from Michigan in 1926. This conclusion is found in a new research paper in "Northeaste...
Dec 18, 2023, 2:19pm EST
Eastern community engagement awarded $65K grant for youth development
The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) at Eastern Connecticut State University will receive $65,000 for advancing youth development as part of a state pilot program to reinvest in communities that were hardest hit by the war on drugs. The grant com...
Dec 14, 2023, 10:23am EST
Eastern's advanced graduate programs move fully online this spring
Four accelerated online graduate programs designed to meet the needs of working professionals will begin at Eastern Connecticut State University in the Spring 2024 semester, with master's degrees offered in Accounting, Management, Special Education and...
Dec 7, 2023, 9:41am EST
$500k grant aims to increase STEM diversity and retention
Minority students applying to Eastern Connecticut State University in 2024 who plan to major in the sciences or mathematics will be recruited for a new STEM mentoring program funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The Louis Stokes Allian...
Nov 28, 2023, 1:01pm EST