Digest (9 issues), Jan 2005 - Dec 2005

Includes Jan, Mar-Jul, Oct and Dec.

January 2005 Digest: Dec 10, 2004: WCSU opens door for foreign students; Marla Sliwa to discuss slavery in Africa; Dec 12: Girl Scouts turns to WestConn for marketing plan; Dec 14: State oks $2M for WestConn upgrades; Dec 15: Sen. Cappiello and Rep Frey help secure funding for WCSU and Holy Trinity Orthodox Church; Dec 16: Prof. Emeritus David Detzer discusses his book "Donneybrook" about the First Battle of Bull Run; Dec 31: WestConn offers MFA in Professional Writing; Dec 31: WestConn planning inaugural events to honor its new President.

March 2005: Jan 21: Danbury gives approval for school on Osborne Street; Jan 27: WestConn students to perform "Psycho Beach Part" comedy; Feb 4: Feb: 11: WestConn play "For Colored Girls" lifts spirits of performers; Feb 12: WestConn and Chinese New Year; Feb 16: Governor Rell earmarks $69.3 million for WestConn Arts Center; Feb 21: School building projects to begin this year.

April 2005 Digest: Feb 18: Anthony Pajk and Branson honored by WestConn; Mar 3,4: WestConn stages "The Difference From Here" a raw drama by playwright Neil LaBute; Mar 3: Prof Tom Philbrick expert in Latin American river weeds finds new species; Mar 6: George Coleman new Hord Foundation leader; Mar 14: Work to begin on $18 million student center on Westside Campus; Mar 20: Prof Theodora Pinou leads study of turtles.

May 2005 Digest: Apr 2: WestConn variety show; Apr 6: WCSU Childcare Caberet; Apr 7: WCSU events to honor new president; Apr 11: Postcard exhibit shows images of Danbury's past; Apr 13: WestConn begins work on student center; Apr 13: Magnet School attracts attention; Apr 16: WestConn installs new president.

June 2005 Digest: Apr 15, 27: 10th Annual WCSU April Jazz Festival to feature Lovano Nonet; Apr 24: Prof Anam Govardhan teaches "responsible" English classes; May 3: WestConn students learn from the past; May 4,10,15: Jane Goodall to speak at WestConn May 8; May 5: WestConn professor Theodora Pinou leads turtle research on Crete; May 12: WestConn student president takes charge; May 13: "Blue Window" production by Theatre Arts Department; May 13: WestConn planning new parking area; May 25: WestConn in line for $3.7M grant.

July 2005 Digest: May 27: Dr. Jack S. C. Fong receives President's Medal at WCSU Commencement; Jun 25: Students research lake conditions; Jul 7: WestConn senior, Chris Hennessy, gets top marketing award.

October 2005 Digest: Jul 16,27: WestConn to offer week of literature; Jul 21: Growing nursing program gets temporary new home; Jul 20: Candlewood Lake Authority July News; Jul 28: Charles Ives' pipe organ to find home at WestConn; Jul 29: WestConn students perform a free, psychedelic version of Twelfth Night; Aug 9: New WestConn science facility; Aug 16: Construction forces Nature Preserve to shift entrance; Aug 18: Skitch Henderson to help WestConn programs; Aug 18: Director Emily Gallagher puts a new spin on "Three Little Pigs;" Aug 19: WestConn parking.

December 2005 Digest: Oct 24: WestConn students help Pakistan quake victims; Oct 26,28: WestConn to host eminent domain debate; Oct 30: James Mellett, WestConn Lecture Series, defends idea of evolution; Oct 31: WestConn's rebuilt Steinway; Nov 2,3,4,6: Skitch Henderson dies; Nov 4: Silo Gallery and WestConn MFA artis highlight "The Farm;" Nov 4: Musical "Nine" at WCSU reviewed; Nov 17: Campus research park on hold; Nov 27: Lewis Zurlo architectural records donated to Haas Library.