Connecticut College News

It's hard to get a steady gig in New York. When you've had one for more than four decades, it's worth celebrating.

These genetically modified axolotls glow green under a blue light. They belong to Marc Zimmer, professor of chemistry at Connecticut College, who is an expert on green fluorescent protein .

It's doubtful that anyone in the country, maybe even the world, knows more about "Christmas Carol" movies than Fred Guida.

An international jury representing nine countries selected critically acclaimed Chinese poet Duo Duo as the 2010 laureate of the $50,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international magazine, World Literature Today.

George Jagger is probably not quite the hipster that Claire Gaudiani had in mind, when the Connecticut College president was predicting a downtown renaissance that would make New London a "hip little city." But 86-year-old Jagger is indeed what the doctor ordered for making the downtown a more interesting and dynamic place, a transplant from the ...

Green fluorescent protein lights up an axolotl under ultra violet light. Credit: Justin Rosenberg, Connecticut College Geneticists can engineer mice and fish to have fluorescent proteins that light up certain parts of their bodies.

The state's attorney office has made an offer to resolve the case of a Navy sailor accused of causing the crash that killed a Connecticut College Student Elizabeth Durante in March.

The coming month may prove to be the homecoming Philadelphia-born painter Barkley L. Hendricks has long deserved.

Colleges are like the cookie monster. They seek and devour every resource in sight, with few constraints and even less restraint.

When choreographer Rebecca Pappas presents her haunting dance piece "Monster" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Yud gallery, she'll be adding some "rough" to the diamond-shaped structure.

Connecticut College students, including Susanna Matthews, front left, a senior, and Catherine Monahan, second from left, a sophomore, gather with faculty members on Tempel Green at the college for a candlelight vigil in support of"The Laramie Project 10 Years Later - An Epilogue," a play that explores life in Laramie, Wyo., 10 years after Matthew ...

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut isn't taking the David Letterman scandal lightly.

A crumbling 10th-century tower still standing tall amidst a stark 21st-century housing development with a satellite dish balanced on the edge of a dormer in the background, a dog standing perfectly still on a wall in the foreground.

MAIL ORDER AT CORNELL, said a headline in the New York Herald Tribune last week.

Did you know there is a coalition of food-related stakeholders throughout Greater New London who have partnered to assess and determine the viability of a local food system? Such a system would provide as much locally produced food to the area as possible and increase that capacity over time.

Two-time Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy will be the special guest speaker at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 10th Annual Eugene O'Neill Celebration.

Classic Hits 98.7 WNLC is hosting Ocean Beach Rocks! to benefit the Barnaba Institute on Thursday, Oct.

Emily Tate Rudolph, 72, of Grantham, New Hampshire, formerly of New Canaan and West Norwalk, died Sept.

As early as last January, Robert Richter heard rumors that the Tectonic Theater Project was considering a follow-up to their widely acclaimed "Laramie Project" - a production dealing the with the aftermath of the 1998 Laramie, Wyoming, hate-crime murder of 22-year-old gay student Matthew Shepard.

Ben Telep had to abruptly change his college plans after his mother lost her job.