Since 1982, the Eli Whitney Students Program (EWSP) has offered students with “non-traditional” backgrounds — but who possess exceptional potential, determination, and maturity — an opportunity to ...
Kwadwo Adae at work on the Bouchet mural. Credit: Ainissa Ramirez file photo Robert Lucas: “My main point is rethinking Eli Whitney.” Should Whitney Avenue hold onto the name of the cotton-gin ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A Yale University business student is proposing renaming Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. The student, Robert Lucas, said the legacy of Eli Whitney should be studied ...
click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied on ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A Yale University business student is proposing renaming Whitney Avenue in New Haven. Robert Lucas, an MBA student, said the legacy of Eli Whitney should be studied, not ...
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Lake Whitney Dam: Ready to be improved for “the next 160 years.” Credit: RWA photo The Lake Whitney Dam on the border of New Haven and Hamden has been going strong since 1860, when Eli Whitney and the ...