Stamford Innovation Week: Cultivating Unexpected Opportunities for Growth

August 31, 2018

Spoke– The region’s most enterprising minds will gather at venues across the city September 13-23, 2018, for Stamford Innovation Week (SIW), an event series designed to connect entrepreneurs, tech talent and investors to create unexpected opportunities for growth.

Stamford Innovation Week launches Sept. 13

August 30, 2018

Stamford Advocate– Entrepreneurs from across the region will gather in Stamford from Sept. 13 to Sept. 23 for Stamford Innovation Week, an event series designed to connect entrepreneurs, tech talent and investors.

Sierra Club Ranks UConn a Green Campus Leader Again

August 27, 2018

UConn Today– UConn has once again been rated among the top 10 in Sierra Club’s “Cool Schools” rankings. UConn placed third overall, an accomplishment that Richard Miller, director of UConn’s Office of Environmental Policy, says is something that has distinguished UConn as a leader among its peers.

UHART, UCONN SET TO LAUNCH INSURTECH CURRICULUM

Innovation Destination Hartford– This piece originally appeared in HartfordBusiness.com August 22, 2018.

Timothy Folta, professor of management, leads a class at the Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford. (Photo courtesy: Peter Morenus/University of Connecticut.)

Q&A talks with UConn School of Business professor Timothy Folta and University of Hartford Barney School of Business clinical instructor Ken Goldstein about the schools’ joint InsurTech program.

Special Class – Prof. Chinmoy Ghosh of University of Connecticut

August 24, 2018

Karnavati University– Dr. Chinmoy Ghosh, Gladstein Professor of Business and Innovation and Head of the Department of Finance at the School of Business, University of Connecticut, USA, took a long session with the Summer-9 students (2017-2019 batch) of UWSB, Kolkata on Friday, 17th August 2018.

Peter R. van Dernoot ’57: Hope Springs from Tragedy

A participant gets "a close up look at cancer" in the program at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Oncology in Lawrence, Kansas. (Peter R. van Dernoot)
A participant gets “a close up look at cancer” in the program at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Oncology in Lawrence, Kansas. (Peter R. van Dernoot)

The gut-wrenching day that Alice and Peter R. van Dernoot ’57 told their two children that their mother had lung cancer is forever etched in Peter’s mind. Continue Reading