About Us
Our Purpose
Foster Innovations that Ignite Student Success
Our Values
Advancing Student Success Beyond Degree Completion
Responding to the Needs of the Business Community
Supporting Personal and Professional Growth of our Team
Our Actions
Building Capacity by helping align academic programs based on industry needs from Middle – Graduate school
Advancing Community awareness and access to opportunities in STEM and Emerging Tech
Facilitating Opportunities in research and innovation, including experiential learning programs for students and educators
Individualized Consulting for students, schools, community colleges and universities in CT
Save the date! Emerging Technologies Forum is scheduled for Friday, October 23, 2026 at 101 College St, New Haven CT.
Our History
2013
Yale and SCSU, led by Professor Christine Broadbridge, secure an NSF MRSEC grant for Material Initiative for STEM Education (MISE) that enabled education and outreach programming for HS and undergraduate students as well as middle – high school teachers. As part of this grant, numerous research experiences for students and teachers were supported as well as a partnership among Platt Technical High School, ManufactureCT, and SCSU that launched the Materials and Manufacturing Summer Teachers Institute (MMSTI). MMSTI began as a three-day workshop designed to acquaint science teachers with real-life applications of STEM skills in the current manufacturing environment.
2015
The Bioscience Academic and Career Pathway (BioPath) program was established as a result of the land development agreement that brought Alexion and more STEM companies to New Haven. Since then, we have had a growing role contributing to Connecticut’s workforce development by helping prepare the next generation of researchers, technicians, and scientists. This partnership with the city of New Haven created a successful program that is now housed within the SCSU Innovation Hub.
2015
SCSU’s Academic Science Building opens and the Office of STEM Innovation and Leadership is created within SCSU’s cross-institutional new Division of Research and Innovation.
2022
STEM-IL rebrands as the SCSU Innovation Hub.
2023
IRWECA is launched, a partnership with the CT Department of Education and a broader version of MMSTI; supporting educators across the spectrum and throughout the state.
Yale and SCSU, led by Professor Christine Broadbridge, secure an NSF MRSEC grant for Material Initiative for STEM Education (MISE) that enabled education and outreach programming for HS and undergraduate students as well as middle – high school teachers. As part of this grant, numerous research experiences for students and teachers were supported as well as a partnership among Platt Technical High School, ManufactureCT, and SCSU that launched the Materials and Manufacturing Summer Teachers Institute (MMSTI). MMSTI began as a three-day workshop designed to acquaint science teachers with real-life applications of STEM skills in the current manufacturing environment.
The Bioscience Academic and Career Pathway (BioPath) program was established as a result of the land development agreement that brought Alexion and more STEM companies to New Haven. Since then, we have had a growing role contributing to Connecticut’s workforce development by helping prepare the next generation of researchers, technicians, and scientists. This partnership with the city of New Haven created a successful program that is now housed within the SCSU Innovation Hub.
SCSU’s Academic Science Building opens and the Office of STEM Innovation and Leadership is created within SCSU’s cross-institutional new Division of Research and Innovation.
The first annual Bioscience Careers Forum is held at Jackson Laboratory.
The first annual Connecting Students and Professionals of Color conference is held at SCSU.
STEM-IL rebrands as the SCSU Innovation Hub.
IRWECA is launched, a partnership with the CT Department of Education and a broader version of MMSTI; supporting educators across the spectrum and throughout the state.
Innovation News
2026 EPIIC Survey Results
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Division of Research and Innovation, the Innovation Hub, the Office…
July 8, 2026
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New Lab-Office Dev Advances — Buoyed By Quantum
Esme Lombard thinks that New Haven might be on its way to becoming the next Silicon Valley… Adele Haeg NH…
July 2, 2026
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CT is trying to kickstart a quantum computing sector
The state is pouring millions into the emerging quantum industry in the hopes of unlocking new economic growth — and…
June 21, 2026
Read moreOur Team
Dr. Christine Broadbridge
Executive Director, Research & Innovation, SCSU
Peter Dimoulas
Program Administrator, Research and Innovation, SCSU
Nina Musco
Project Coordinator, Research & Innovation, SCSU
Derek Faulkner
Special Projects Coordinator, Research & Innovation, SCSU
Sage Maier
Graduate Assistant