Newscast: 03/02/2021

Melanie Careri and Luca Triant are on the desk this week with plenty of COVID updates on campus and in Hamden. Olivia Kettell spoke to students and Dr. Hill about the mask mandate being lifted for indoor spaces on campus. Luca provides the latest COVID numbers on campus and has information on the newly placed fines for unboosted students.

Jess Brij-Raj spoke to different women in STEM for women’s history month. Hannah Mirsky spoke to SGA Vice President Chris Longchamp about a new car-service, M-7, that is available for students on campus. Hephzibah Rajan sat down with Chief Experience Officer Tom Ellet to learn about his latest plan to let students run their own businesses on campus.

After a short weather update from Jess, Hephzibah recaps what professors and students discussed at the teach-in about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine held on Tuesday. Matthew Jaroncyk is in the studio with the latest international news, including the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the latest results of a study conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

After the break, Alyssa Murphy joins us with news from Capitol Hill where President Biden addressed a range of topics from Ukraine to improving cancer research during the annual State of the Union. Jon Surratt has the latest on Quinnipiac’s women’s and men’s ice-hockey and women’s basketball.