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With the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreading, doctors say now is not the time to self-diagnose. They suggest if you feel sick, to get tested.

With COVID-19 cases on the rise in Connecticut and the CDC recommending people in most of Connecticut wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status, some universities in the state are updating their mask policies. Wesleyan University announced Thursday that it is mandating the wearing of masks in all university buildings, regardless of a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status. Effective immediately,...

A small light blue house in a West Haven neighborhood looks like any other on the street. But inside the home owned by the University of New Haven are two life-sized dolls with gunshot wound markers, and a dozen high school students learning how to document a crime scene. The teens in UNH’s Crime Scene Investigation Academy found beer...

Some high school students are attending a crime scene investigation summer camp run by the University of New Haven to give them some real-world experience in the field of forensic investigation.

COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in the U.S. are on the rise as the highly contagious delta variant spreads, driven by the least vaccinated parts of the country. And while no vaccine is perfect, meaning fully vaccinated people occasionally will get infected, those so-called breakthrough cases are rare and usually are mild. They are also expected. The advice from medical experts is...

The training involves teaching rats to identify scents associated with decomposition.

Gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in their home early Wednesday. The attack comes after a series of anti-government protests and violence around the country.

The University of New Haven is working on a project to train rats to help with rescues.

The program is for refugee and immigrant women, offering them culinary training, the opportunity to learn English, obtain their Servsafe food handling certification, develop their financial and digital literacy, and prepare them for the workforce.

Women represent 52% of the student population of the University of New Haven but only about 20% of engineering students. The university wants to change that.

Education as we know it has had to evolve because of the pandemic, so why not make other changes to help students of today become more successful in the future? A new University of New Haven initiative aims to support students of all backgrounds so that a more diverse group of people can thrive in engineering careers. “We have a…

Exactly one year ago the University of New Haven suddenly announced in-person classes were temporarily canceled and dorms would be closing amid growing COVID-19 concerns. On March 9, 2020, students and faculty did not know they’d eventually switch to virtual classes and not return to the campus for five months. “It was very surreal at the time. It still is,”…

One year ago today NBC Connecticut spoke with infectious disease expert Dr. Virginia Bieluch about the novel coronavirus. Today we spoke again to reflect on a year of the pandemic.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Connecticut is declining. Karl Minges, University of New Haven’s Health Administration and Policy chair, explains why.

The University of New Haven is investigating whether any of its students were involved in the events in the US Capitol riot last week after receiving complaints about social media posts. In a letter to the community, university President Steven Kaplan condemned the violence and said that school officials would be investigating social media posts that have been reported to…

Steven D’Antuono, Acting Director of the FBI Washington Field Office, confirmed that the FBI has received over 100,000 pieces of digital evidence to help identify the domestic terrorists who infiltrated the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and asked the public to provide any additional photos, videos or leads pertaining to the riot at www.fbi.gov/uscapitol. D’Antuono also urged individuals who participated...

The University of New Haven is canceling all in-person classes and moving all instruction online through the remainder of the week due to concerns about new COVID-19 cases on campus. In a letter sent to students Monday, school officials said all classes will move online as of Tuesday, October 13 through Saturday, October 17. There will be no classes on…

The University of New Haven is quarantining one of its residence halls after multiple students tested positive for COVID-19, school officials said Tuesday. UNH officials said they’ve seen seven confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, and five of them are students who live in Winchester Hall. As a precaution, they will quarantine all 222 students who live in the…

In just a few weeks, students from all over the world will return to five colleges and universities around New Haven. City officials say they’ve been planning for the influx as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on. It starts with the three institutions in the city, each with a COVID-19 planning team and a point of contact that is in...

A task force of staff members at Quinnipiac University is preparing for students to return this fall.