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After All Things

Back to school

By Sabrina Garone
Published August 28, 2023 at 4:22 PM EDT
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SUNY Chancellor John King joins Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis for a tour of the campus.
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SUNY Chancellor John King joins Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis for a tour of the campus.

It’s the first day of school for students at New York public universities, but there’s still time to enroll in community college for this fall. A UConn research center will focus on protecting the state’s energy grid. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) returns from a trip to Ukraine. And more Connecticut towns are finding PFAS in their water supplies.

Hear more from Ebong Udoma on this week's episode of Long Story Short, a collaborative podcast from WSHU and the CT Mirror — available online and wherever you get your podcasts.

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Sabrina Garone
Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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