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ECSU Foundation awards more than $500K in 2020-21
The ECSU Foundation, Inc., Eastern Connecticut State University's philanthropic arm, has awarded more than $500,000 in scholarships to more than 450 students in the 2020-21 academic year. Created and sustained by the generous donations of alumni and fr...
Jan 8, 2021, 10:04am EST

Ramsey native emerges as national media expert on presidential politics
Ramsey-native Tom Balcerski, a history professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, has become a frequent contributor in the national conversation on presidential politics this election season. A presidential historian, his expertise and opinion ...
Jan 7, 2021, 10:24am EST

Eastern's Balcerski emerges as media expert on presidential politics
Eastern Connecticut State University History Professor Tom Balcerski has become a frequent contributor in the national conversation on presidential politics this election season. A presidential historian, his expertise and opinion has been highly sough...
Jan 6, 2021, 11:12am EST

College students ponder WooSox relocation, win second place in problem-solving COVID-19 competition
A team of three sport and leisure management students at Eastern Connecticut State University won second place among 40 competitors at this fall's Pioneer Institute Nichols College Case Competition, which challenged students to develop solutions on how...
Jan 4, 2021, 4:16pm EST

Eastern professor from Mansfield presents on the science of dissemination and implementation
Megan Stanton of Mansfield, assistant professor of social work at Eastern Connecticut State University and an expert on the science of dissemination and implementation, says there is a notorious lag between the development of evidence-based medical pra...
Jan 4, 2021, 4:07pm EST

Eastern's early childhood education center fills 'virtual' void for teacher prep programs
The Center for Early Childhood Education (CECE) at Eastern Connecticut State University has emerged as an invaluable resource for the early childhood education field during the COVID-19 pandemic. As teacher preparation programs have shifted online, ins...
Dec 22, 2020, 2:51pm EST

Local resident, Eastern professor edits book on innovative folk musician
Old Lyme resident Teresa Balough, music lecturer at Eastern Connecticut State University, is co-editor of the recently published book "Distant Dreams: The Correspondence of Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, 1946-1960." Published by Lyrebird Press at Th...
Dec 18, 2020, 2:29pm EST

Eastern professor runs in memory of slain student Alyssiah Wiley
For the past seven years, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, sociology professor and department chair at Eastern Connecticut State University, has run in the Hot Chocolate Challenge for Safe Passage in Northhampton, MA, an event designed to raise public awareness o...
Dec 17, 2020, 11:42am EST

Eastern students raise funds for scholarships in Haiti
For the third year in a row, Eastern Connecticut State University students enrolled in French Professor Michelle Bacholle's "Perspectives on Women's Issues" class engaged in a fundraising drive to provide scholarships for girls to get an education at t...
Dec 17, 2020, 11:27am EST
Eastern musicians persevere through trying semester and changing industry
No industry has adapted to COVID-19 quite like the performing arts. With venues shuttered and musicians quarantined, an experience once universally live and in-person now streams virtually to a dispersed audience who watch via computer screens and cell...
Dec 15, 2020, 1:48pm EST