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Participants of all levels can pay to join teams of 20 with a drummer on each boat to keep up the cadence,
he New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s Lash/ Voynich Project has won three national awards from three different organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Award and the Alison M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University.
and a sweep or steers-person. Dragon Boats are provided. More information regarding participation, volunteer opportunities and guidelines can be found on their website, dragonboatregatta.canaldock.org
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The NHSO is currently going through a 2-year process involving Hannah Lash, Composer-in-Residence, who has written a complete Symphony based on a Voynich Manuscript located in
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This award is provided to an individual in honor of the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court; Marshall honored individual commitment in civil rights word and action. The BLSA puts a spotlight on a person involved in law, education, or politics who truly shows Marshall’s dedication to helping society through human rights, civil rights and civil liberties.
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Princeton Review chose Quinnipiac as the best game design school based
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on a survey in 2015 of 150 institutions around the world that offer game design coursework, including the U.S., Canada, and various countries abroad.
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oses for Autism, located at Pinchbeck Rose Farm in Guilford, has provided career training since 2009 for Autistic students of transition age by growing and then distributing freshly cut flowers. Now continuing the flower trend, the Roses for Autism organization is launching its newest
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Yale’s Beinecke Library.
ichael Bolton Charities Inc. recently made a $3,500 grant to the Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence Services to expand their music therapy program for victims of domestic violence and their children. Moms learn to sing lullabies to their babies and families have sing-alongs.
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The review made the institutions report on a 40-question survey about various aspects of their offerings and ultimately weighed on the school’s academics, career services, facilities, and technology.
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As a civil rights activist and educator, White has held leadership roles in many organizations, including the New Haven Federation of Teachers.
ccording to the Princeton Review’s recently published Top 50 undergraduate schools offering game design programs for 2016, Quinnipiac University took the top spot in Connecticut.
With around 40 million smokers in the country, smokers can use herbal tea as a replacement for their habit; an alternative.
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n Feb. 25, Lula White of New Haven, a former Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement, received the Quinnipiac University Black Law Student Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award.
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Since 2010, the company has sold over 30,000 boxes of their Quit Tea in the U.S. and about four to six boxes are used to quit smoking. The success rate is between 17 percent and 32 percent of smokers who used the tea have now quit smoking.
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he Quit Company LCC or ‘Quit Co’ based in Greenwich, has data from multiple surveys to support the premise that drinking herbal tea might be able to help individuals to quit smoking.
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n Saturday, June 4 2016, Canal Dock Boathouse, Inc. will host New Haven’s first Dragon Boat Regatta at Long Wharf Pier. With the noble goal of river and waterway recapture for New Haven’s wetlands, the event will coincide with the Food Truck Festival, also on Long Wharf.
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Each of the Symphony’s four movements will be performed by the NHSO across two seasons. The first was recently performed in Oct. 2015 and May 19, 2016 will be the second. The third and fourth will premiere next season. perfume, Ardent Rose.
From now until Mother’s Day, the perfume will sell at the discounted price of $39.99
Located at the UCDVS safe houses, the music therapy program will now be held and offered twice a week. Founded in 1993, the Michael Bolton Charities, Inc.’s mission is “to support organizations that emphasize teaching children and women a way to escape, on their own, the patterns and consequences of abuse, poverty and ignorance.”
in honor of the mothers who have sacrificed and are sacrificing for their children. After May 8, the price will increase to $60 per bottle. This perfume is created for a charitable cause and any sale made from the perfume will help support programs at the Roses for Autism greenhouse, a Sensory Garden development, and an expansion for their scholarship program. NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM