Major in Inside Higher Ed, Gallagher in Hartford Courant, Cianci in Hartford Business Journal, and More

William Major, associate professor of English in Hillyer College, had an essay, titled "When Words Don't Matter," about his literature class’ reaction to a passage written by Frederick Douglass, published in the Tuesday, Feb. 14, edition of Insider High Ed.com. Click here to read his essay.

Hartford Hawks men’s basketball coach John Gallagher gave Hartford Courant reporter Mike Anthony a rare insider’s look at his approach to building a winning basketball program and culture. The result was a major feature story in the Sunday, Feb. 12, issue of the Courant that was two-and-a-half pages long and included several photographs. Click here to see the article.

The list of newly tenured faculty at the University was posted on Inside Higher Ed.com on Friday, Feb. 10. Click here to see the posting.

The Wednesday, Feb. 8, edition of the Voices newspaper in Woodbury featured an article about the “Lest We Forget” exhibition in the University’s Mortensen Library and local painter who created the artwork, Robert Templeton. The article also included a photograph of Templeton in front of painting of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

William Cianci, executive director of the Construction Institute at the University, did a question-and-answer interview about future trends in the construction industry with the Hartford Business Journal for its Monday, Feb. 13, issue. Click here to read the interview.

Susan Nolte, an alumna of the University’s Entrepreneurial Center, and the company she developed a business plan for while attending the Center, were featured in West Hartford Patch.com on Tuesday, Feb. 14. Launched in 2008, the May Cookie Co. sells her mixes in Whole Food stores on both the East and West Coasts. To read about her company, click here.