New Haven — When Imari Troche’s son Nathan was born three years ago, she knew how to change his diaper and feed him. But much beyond that was a struggle. Shortly after Nathan’s birth, Marta Santana began visiting Troche and Nathan in their home nearly every week. Those visits have changed everything in the young […]

Last year, a visit with Dr. William Petit persuaded Sen. Edith Prague, D-Columbia, to block the repeal  of the death penalty.This year, Prague had another visitor: James Tillman. Tillman, of East Hartford, spent more than 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit before he was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2006. He […]

Jo Handelsman remembers the moment she realized something was seriously wrong with the way science was taught. She was an undergraduate at Cornell University in her junior year, sitting in a biology lecture with an unusually good professor. “It suddenly occurred to me that every idea I had memorized or learned or thought I understood […]