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SHAWN Project studies women’s issues 

SHAWN Project studies women’s issues 

SHAWN Project members (left to right) Sabrine Yaser, Grace Beyerl, Jenny Malcein, Sedona Worth, Samantha Morrison, Emily Ziemba, Mellody Massaquoi and Prof. Amy Smoyer A university coalition is working to create a more diverse research community, including opportunities for undergraduate students.   Stop HIV/AIDS Women’s Network’s research is centered around women who use drugs, have been incarcerated or are...

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Reach for the Stars

Reach for the Stars

https://youtu.be/9mC5ryGKsTw The beginning process of star formation as projected in a show at the Planetarium in Morrill Hall. Studying planets, stars and galaxies are opportunities open to students on campus. The departments of Physics and Earth Science are collaborating on a proposal to offer a future minor, which currently is in draft form. In addition, Southern features a...

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Student ‘serves and protects’ Hartford

Student ‘serves and protects’ Hartford

https://youtu.be/Z-Xx6uhv83U Yarimar Inoa-Caraballo, senior, sociology major. Yarimar Inoa-Caraballo swaps her student backpack at night for her police uniform.  Along with her badge and cap, she adds her gun and utility belt with handcuffs, pepper spray, baton and flashlight.  Caraballo, a Hartford police officer, is tackling the nightshifts, five to six days a week, “to serve and protect” the...

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Southern Connecticut Skate University 

Southern Connecticut Skate University 

https://youtu.be/butBCpfzRSo Mason Boeger, freshman, studio art major, with his skateboard. They are seen skating down the stairway at Buley Library, zooming past students on the way to classes and hanging around campus with their boards.  It seems as if skaters on campus are on the rise.   Gabriel Blessing, freshman, finance and accounting major, says he has a passion...

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Rock It at the Roller Derby

https://youtu.be/9xMe26aBCEQ There are two minutes on the clock. The skaters are jamming and blocking while trying to make their way around the track. It’s a typical bout of roller derby for the Iron Angels at Roller Magic in Waterbury.  Southern student Mary Pelkey, known as Claire Voyant for the Iron Angels, has been skating with the team for...

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Serving with the Air National Guard

Giuseppe Rositani packs parachutes, life rafts and prepares oxygen masks for the airplanes as part of his duties in the Connecticut Air National Guard.   Rositani is stationed at 103rd Airlift Wing, a unit of the Connecticut Air National Guard based in Windsor Locks. “I work in aircrew flight equipment. Anything that goes into safety on a plane, I...

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Getting Into Character Through Cosplay

Getting Into Character Through Cosplay

From superheroes to anime characters, cosplayers use makeup, wigs, clothes, props, masks and more to become these people. “You can make that stuff from basically just cardboard. It isn’t as expensive as it looks like,” says Jacob Davila, senior psychology major. “You start to really figure out how to break down certain pieces, what parts of a character’s...

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Developing Film & Video Skills

Developing Film & Video Skills

Wilson Valois working behind the camera. Wilson Valois has been creating and editing videos on YouTube since he was 12 years old.  Valois , a senior communication major, is focusing his studies on the film, television and production concentration in the department. “I was first going to be a graphic design major, but then I really just enjoyed...

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Student nurses offer clinic in Peru

Student nurses offer clinic in Peru

Students that went abroad in front of Machu Picchu with Dr. Krol. Nursing students, who are facing a career of serving the public, are taking their campus education to people in need of health care in the villages of the South American country of Peru. The trip abroad was conducted in late fall as a mission to learn...

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