Creating a Better World

May 6, 2015

Social Enterprise Conference
Pictured L to R: School of Business Dean John Elliott and Jeff Brown, EVP at Newman’s Own Foundation.

Mission-Focused Businesses Subject of Recent Conference

Business partners Spencer Curry and Kieran Foran go to work at their FRESH Farm Aquaponics business in South Glastonbury every day, believing they’re one step closer to solving world hunger.

When Justin Nash was a Captain in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, his soldiers looked to him for guidance. Now a civilian, he’s using those leadership traits at Til Duty is Done, an organization he created which seeks to provide housing, employment training and career opportunities for returning veterans. Til Duty is Done, Nash said, gives him a renewed sense of purpose.Continue Reading

UConn Graduates First Majors in Chinese

UConn Today – This May, UConn will graduate its first students with majors in Chinese. “It’s an important major to have at such a large university, and the language and cultural elements are critical,” says Chinese and accounting double major Marc Schuman ’15. “To be able to travel, live somewhere else, and be in the position of the immigrant gives you a lot of perspective.”

‘Accelerate UConn’ Begins

May 5, 2015

New Program Prepares to Welcome Inaugural Teams of Inventors

The University of Connecticut is launching a new program, called Accelerate UConn, which will encourage and fund student and faculty teams interested in developing technology-focused start-up companies.

The program is made possible by a $100,000, one-year grant from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), that may be extended for two additional years.Continue Reading

$300,000 NSF Grant

UConn Receives a $300,000 NSF Grant Toward Student, Faculty Research

By Molly Stadnicki.  This article originally appeared in The Daily Campus.

The University of Connecticut was recently recognized as a National Science Foundation I-Corps Site (NSF) and will receive a grant of $300,000 distributed over the next three years.

NSF’s I-Corps program focuses on fostering entrepreneurship that will lead to the development of technological advancements. Institutions recognized by this program are those that incorporate teams that are committed to strengthening local innovations.Continue Reading

Instructor of the Year

Congratulations to our Instructor of the Year, Stephen Pedneault

Congratulations to Stephen Pedneault, who received the MSA Instructor of the Year award.  Steve teaches our Forensic Accounting and Securities Fraud course (ACCT 5546) and has been with the program since 2008.  Stephen is the principal of Forensic Accounting Services, LLC, a local CPA firm in Glastonbury, Connecticut specializing only in forensic accounting, fraud investigations, and litigation support matters.  Congratulations Stephen!

Alumna Named Ninth Hispanic-American Dean

Quinnipiac University Chair of Management Named New Dean of SUNY Plattsburgh’s School of Business and Economics – Becomes Ninth Hispanic-American Dean of U.S. Business Schools

Hartford Courant – The Ph.D. Project, an award-winning program to create a more diverse corporate America, is proud to announce that Project participant,  Dr. Rowena Ortiz-Walters ’96 (CLAS), ’05 Ph.D. has been appointed Dean of SUNY Plattsburgh’s School of Business and Economics.

SOX 404 Research Study

May 4, 2015

SOX 404 Failing to Achieve Its Purpose, Says Study

Accounting Today – The requirements in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for outside audits of internal control may actually be penalizing companies that reveal problems with their controls, according to a new study.

Real Estate: The Practical Approach

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Dave Reilly, former CEO of Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, one of the most prestigious firms of its kind in the world, instructs UConn students in a course he initiated, called “Real Estate: A Practical Approach.”

International Real Estate Moguls Share High-Stakes Tactics with UConn Protégé

As the CEO of one of the largest real estate advisory firms in the world, David J. Reilly has plenty to keep him busy.

His company, Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, is immersed in the development of the much-anticipated Fan Pier—an upscale, 21-acre office, retail, residential and restaurant complex along Boston Harbor.

But despite his many commitments, the man at the helm of a $44 billion, Hartford-based real-estate empire, along with three members of the company’s executive team, devotes one evening a week to teach a realistic, challenging and pragmatic course to UConn real estate students.Continue Reading