Public Safety is tracking a significant snowfall that will be arriving in our area late Sunday morning (Jan. 25). It will snow heavily throughout the day and evening eventually tapering off Monday (Jan. 26) with 10-14 inches expected statewide. A sleet and freezing rain mix is also possible along the shore. Temperatures will be in the teens and twenties.
Due to this significant winter storm and the extensive campus clean-up operations that will need to take place, all in-person day and evening classes scheduled for Monday, January 26, 2026 have been cancelled. All scheduled in-person classes will transition to being held online or remotely. Additional information on the virtual format for each class will be provided by your instructor.
Faculty have been asked to prepare for Online or Remote sessions in the event of in-person meeting cancellations. These options will be determined by the Faculty member and all questions should be directed to the Faculty teaching each course section. Faculty also have been asked to be very understanding and accommodating of the individual situations of their students who may have difficulty managing these alternative online or remote class meetings on short notice.
Please note that only essential employees, as previously determined by their respective department leaders, should report to campus. All other employees should fulfill the requirements of their role remotely.
Campus operations for residential students, unless otherwise noted, will operate as scheduled, though hours may be modified or changed based on the conditions. Separate messages will be sent from the Peterson Library, the Beckerman Recreation Center, and Dining Services regarding any changes to their normal hours of operation. The Bergami Center for Science, Technology, and Innovation will remain open for residential students to use for study space and to participate in online classes.
Off-campus students that live in the City of West Haven should abide by the city’s parking ban during inclement weather to avoid having their vehicle tagged and towed. Please check the City of West Haven’s website for further information on their snow parking ban.
The Charger Blog
My time as a student at the University has prepared me for my remote internship with SafeAbroad this summer. The experience is enabling me to help keep others safe as I build the skills I will need to excel in a professional environment.
July 15, 2021
I chose to apply for my internship at SafeAbroad, a leader in security consulting and risk analysis for international education, in part, because they provide students with so much experience working as an intelligence analyst. The experience isn’t only for criminal justice students, as there are many national security majors, and even psychology majors completing internships. There are projects for everyone.
SafeAbroad conducts crisis simulations, crisis predictions, and risk mapping, among other things. Because I did so much mapping and predicting in my classes because of my concentration in crime analysis, I think I’m very well prepared when it comes to working with mapping software. I can’t wait to see what we do and what we will accomplish going forward.
The company is focused on keeping students – and all people – safe and aware, which is something I’ve always wanted to do. I expect to gain knowledge that will not only set me apart from all other applicants, but also to gain experience that will give me the upper hand in a professional environment. I’m hoping SafeAbroad makes me more competitive for future career opportunities, as I have big dreams and I want to achieve them. I want to gain the skills I will eventually use in my career.
One of my projects has been to fix the current dashboards the internship uses to show and visualize all data. I chose to work on this project because I have background information in data visuals and creating charts and maps from scratch.
The biggest difference between doing it in class and at my internship is that we use two completely different platforms to create and analyze our data. In school we use a program called Rstudio, which is almost like Excel spreadsheets, but I find them to be a little cleaner and easier to use. At my internship we use PowerBI – premade maps for Excel sheets, so the base of your maps and visuals are already made.
On the dashboard I recently worked on, there was a pie chart to show how frequently a country was having incidents. It was very hard to read. I decided to use a heat map instead to show how often a country has incidents, and I represented the data by color. I used a sequential color scheme starting with a light color to represent one incident and a darker color when more incidents occurred. If I didn’t have the prior knowledge of the right formatting and color scheme, I would not know what to do.
I hope to eventually put out my own travel advisories and make proper predictions as to what will happen in different countries. I hope I get to have a firsthand look at how to work with intelligence, and what can be done with it.
My goal is to end up in any of the “three letter agencies,” and I think being an intelligence analyst intern will definitely help prepare me for my career. This opportunity enables me to gain this experience as a junior, which is invaluable.
Genesis Feliciano ’22, a criminal justice major, is completing an internship at SafeAbroad as part of the University’s Bergami Summer Internship Program.
University News
New University-wide council will advance strategic partnerships, immersive student opportunities, and innovative research, supporting the University’s strategic plan the development of its pioneering Center for Innovation and Applied Technology.
The Charger Blog
Entrepreneur David Sussman, Pompea College of Business Advisory Board Member and chief visionary officer of The Family Security Plan®, is collaborating with University of New Haven students, faculty, and staff to create a program and app that helps Chargers support each other to achieve academic, personal, and professional goals. It’s called Uccountability.
University News
Vice President for Innovation and Applied Technology Paul Lavoie will serve on the Board of Directors and as America’s Chief Manufacturing Officer for the newly launched American Manufacturing Futures Institute.