New Haven will have to wait slightly longer than expected before the opening of Shake Shack’s first Elm City location. The restaurant is tentatively scheduled to open in early September, said Steve Gubbins, the superintendent of the construction site at 986 Chapel Street that will soon house the burger joint, on Monday afternoon. That opening »
Two Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies faculty have been granted named professorships, the environment school announced in a press release on Friday. Xuhui Lee, whose research focuses on the “exchanges of radiation, heat, water, and trace gases between vegetation and the atmosphere,” will become the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Meteorology. John Wargo »
Yale is currently on track to meet the goals outlined in its 2010-2013 Sustainability Strategic Plan, according to an annual progress report released Monday by the Office of Sustainability. The report tracks progress made during the 2011 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2011. (Click here to read the report in full.) The University »
Mark Bomford grew up in a farming community in Canada. Now he’s coming to oversee an American farm as director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, the University announced in a press release earlier this week. A native of the Canadian Great Plains, Bomford comes to Yale from the University of British Columbia. During his »
Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s picks to run the Connecticut departments of Correction and Social Services are facing legislative confirmation hearings, the Associated Press reported. The Connecticut General Assembly’s Executive and Legislative Nomination Committee has planned a public hearing for April 19. During the hearing, Leo Arnone, the nominee to run Connecticut’s prisons agency, and Roderick »