Month: December 2022

The Norwalk Health Department urges the community to protect their health and help stop the spread of germs this winter

Recently, the Norwalk Health Department provided the community with recommendations on how to take health precautions and mitigate the spread of several serious viruses that are on the rise across Connecticut and around the country. As the cold weather begins, the Health Department encourages the community to help prevent the spread of flu, respiratory syncytial…

Governor Lamont highlights Connecticut’s contributions to NASA’s Artemis moon exploration program

Forty-Four Connecticut Companies are Suppliers to the Groundbreaking Mission including one from Norwalk Governor Ned Lamont highlighted the prominent role that 44 businesses in Connecticut are playing in NASA’s world-renowned Artemis I mission, which sent an unmanned spacecraft on an unprecedented trip around the moon. The spacecraft splashed down Sunday, December 11, 2022, after 25…

Erika K. Wesley Joins Westport Country Playhouse as Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

Newly created position is underwritten in part by a Connecticut Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant administered by CT Humanities Westport Country Playhouse has named Erika K. Wesley to a new, full-time position titled director of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). She will provide strategic and operational leadership of all EDI policies, programs, training, and practices…

WCSU seeks student applicants for research fellowships in biology

DANBURY, CT – Undergraduate students interested in pursuing research in the field of biology are invited to submit applications to the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program to be offered in 2023 by the Department of Biology at Western Connecticut State University. Applications are now being accepted from undergraduate students at any higher education institution…