For nearly 100 years, Quinnipiac University has called New Haven County home. And with our 3 campuses located in the towns of Hamden and North Haven, we take our responsibility to be a good community member and neighbor seriously. We are committed to doing our part to enhance and enrich the quality of life for our students and the residents in our local communities through open communication, collaboration and positive action.
An ongoing partnership based in meaningful, inclusive programming brought Special Olympics Connecticut athletes to Quinnipiac’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine to be trained as expert patients and standardized patients.
Robyn Swanson ‘94 has been recognized for her unwavering commitment to empowering women through reshaping today’s business and finance world as a recipient of this year's Hartford Business Journal’s 2025 Women in Business Awards.
M&T Bank has awarded a critical $125,000 grant to ensure the ConnCORP and Quinnipiac Community Entrepreneurship Academy and Clinic continues its impactful work over the next two years. Established in 2022, the ConnCORP/Quinnipiac partnership has fostered business growth for 55 area entrepreneurs with minority-owned or women-owned small business, to date.
The Center for Interprofessional Healthcare Education (IPE) Health Clinic provided care to the Middletown community this past semester, while also providing health science students an opportunity to utilize their skills learned in the classroom in a real world scenario.
As champions of community service, our students volunteer throughout Connecticut, from assisting with Ronald McDonald House projects and raising money for charities to motivating school children in the region with Read Aloud days to beautifying neighborhoods. Our health professions students provide free clinics, our law students perform legal services and our accounting students help with tax preparation for residents in need. The university enriches the community with cultural opportunities, athletics and entertainment options that attract thousands annually.
Quinnipiac students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to learn more about local businesses, receive samples and buy merchandise from dozens of local businesses on Quinnipiac's Mount Carmel Campus Quad on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Learn more about resources for local businesses and non-profits
Connecticut Girl Scouts participated in a summer entrepreneurship program on Friday, August 11, 2023 in the Innovation Hub in the Lender School of Business Center on the Mount Carmel Campus. Learn more about supporting area non-profits
Quinnipiac students from physical therapy, physician assistant, and other health sciences programs coordinated a field day for campers at the YMCA in Hamden on July 28, 2023. Campers participated in activities led by Quinnipiac students. Learn more about opportunities for children and families
Quinnipiac University Community Entrepreneurship Academy and Clinic (CEAC) which provides business accelerator resources to minority, women and veteran-owned small businesses working with ConnCORP held its first pitch competition and graduation ceremony Thursday, May 25, 2023 at ConnCORP headquarters in Hamden, Connecticut. Learn more about the entrepreneurship academy
Quinnipiac hosted the event Women of Color Professional Development Series Presents: Sip and Shop – A Pop-Up Shop and Networking Event Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs of Color, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 in the Rocky Top Student Center on the York Hill Campus. The event highlighted small businesses owned and operated by women of color in the Quinnipiac and Greater New Haven community. Learn more about resources for local businesses
Quinnipiac hosted a Fall Prevention Awareness Day on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Professor Emeritus George Parikh and his wife Josephine speak with second year occupational therapy student Breanna Ciardullo about risk factors for falls along the indoor Bobcat Stride path at the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences on the university's North Haven Campus. Learn more about resources for older adults
Students drop off food donations Friday, May 13, 2022, in the Commons Residence Hall on the Mount Carmel Campus during Quinnipiac’s annual Be Kind, Leave Your Food Behind food drive. Learn more about resources for non-profits
Caroline Laffin (in pink), a third-grader of Montowese Elementary School in North Haven, poses for a picture in front of her artwork displayed at the “Kaleidoscope of Creativity” in the School of Education on the Quinnipiac University North Haven campus on April 13, 2022. Learn more about resources for children and families
Quinnipiac occupational therapy students led a three-week class about cell phone photography at the North Haven Senior Center. Seniors who participated in the class shared their photographs with the group and the OT student-teachers during a celebration on Monday, July 26, 2021, at the center. Learn more about resources for older adults
Quinnipiac students plant flowers outside the Stetson Branch Library in New Haven for the Big Event, a day of community outreach and volunteer service around the greater Hamden area on Saturday, April 6, 2019. Learn more about resources for non-profits
Baby Day Observation and Play. Quinnipiac University School of Health Sciences occupational therapy student Allison Zuccaro, right, interacts with 13-month-old Penelope Fidanza as she is held by Clinical Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Valerie E. Beckert Strange on top of an exercise ball during Baby Day Observation and Play in the Movement Lab at the North Haven Campus on Friday, November 2, 2018.
Quinnipiac University hosts Camp No Limits, an annual 3-day camp that supports children affected by limb loss and their families. In 2015, Quinnipiac became the first and only institution of higher education in the country to host Camp No Limits. Learn more about Camp No Limits
Ridge Road Elementary School second grade student Isaiah Lamb, 7, plays on the school’s new playground after a ribbon cutting ceremony in North Haven, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Learn more about resources for children and families
Junior Achievement volunteer and management student Coralie Joseph ’19 introduces second-grade students to the world of business and entrepreneurship at Cook Hill Elementary School in Wallingford for the annual Quinnipiac School of Business Community Service Day Friday, April 5, 2019.
Social work student Amanda Panniello MSW ’19 co-facilitates the Lion's Low Vision Center monthly Low Vision Support Group Thursday, February 21, 2019 on Quinnipiac’s North Haven Campus. Staffed by social work and occupational therapy students and faculty, the center offers evaluation and recommendations for patients with vision impairments. Learn more about the Lion's Low Vision Center
Quinnipiac sorority Kappa Delta hosts its annual fundraising event, Shamrock the Rope Competition, for Prevent Child Abuse America and local affiliate The Children’s Center of Hamden in Burt Kahn Court on Sunday, February 24, 2019.
Resident assistants Sean Cowles ’20, left, and Max Fortier ’20, MBA ’21, co-organized a student event writing letters of love and hope Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, to go in care packages with toys and art supplies to send to the children at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Quinnipiac business faculty led Lunch & Learn on project management with the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce at the Rocky Top Student Center at the York Hill Campus on Thursday, December 6, 2018. Learn more about resources for local businesses and restaurants
Physical therapy students, from left, Jessica Stearn ’20 and Steven McCormack ’19 help patient Scott Scialabba with his treatment at EQUIP (Quinnipiac University Interprofessional Practice) Rehabilitation Clinic, a student-run organization located on the North Haven Campus founded in 2012 to serve patients' PT and OT needs who are uninsured or underinsured in the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Learn more about EQUIP
Occupational therapy student Kristen Flammini leads a rehabilitative course for seniors at EQUIP (Quinnipiac University Interprofessional Practice) Rehabilitation Clinic on the North Haven Campus. Learn more about EQUIP
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