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Ebony Horsewomen and UConn Join Forces to Provide Education and Outreach Submitted by Pat Kelly, Ebony Horsewomen, Inc., on 2009-12-03.   The Ebony Horsewomen, Inc., development team leader of the proposed Connecticut Equestrian and Exhibition Center , welcomes the support and partnership of the University of Connecticut, College of Agriculture ...

A power outage in the area of Williams Street has left 1,003 customers without power.

Is that a book you're reading? The one causing you to turn somersaults at some newly realized literary intersection? The one where the bicycle built for two, carrying Caribbean and Latin magical realism, ran a red light and smashed into a bus full of urban/hip-hop kids being driven by Holden Caulfield and chaperoned by Ignatius Reilly? If that ...

Kelly Parlin, a freshman at Connecticut College, played the trumpet in "Across America," a Connecticut College Concert Band, Traditional Jazz and Jazz Ensemble concert, October 21 in the Cummings Arts Center.

The family of the 20-year-old Connecticut College student who died March 7 when a van she was riding in was struck head-on by an alleged drunken driver has sued the Mohegan Sun nightclubs where the driver had been drinking.

Not all interesting news and observation arrives under big headlines. Sometimes things get overlooked, slip between the cracks, go unnoticed.

Edward Fisher, a sophomore at Connecticut College, served as assistant lead electrician for the Theater Department's production of "The Tempest," a Shakespearian play about an exiled magical duke in the college's Tansill Theater recently.

Connecticut College Professor Andrew Pessin at his office in the Blaustein Humanities Center at the college in New London.

By 2035, the numbers of elderly and disabled people nationwide needing the services of home care workers will surpass the available pool of workers by 35 million unless steps are begun now to make the job more attractive.

If you're a superstitious person then today could be a very bad day. Not only is it Friday the 13th, but today also marks the rare occurrence of three Friday the 13ths in a single year.

SeattlePI : Take triskaidekaphobia, or fear of 13s, and combine it with a Friday , a generally well-regarded day of the week, and you get Paraskevidekatriaphobics, a deep fear of Friday the 13th.

Students from schools across New England will come to Tufts' campus tomorrow to experience a new kind of environmental symposium, one featuring peer-to-peer learning focused not just on the perils of climate change but also on how to create social movements around environmental issues.

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.