Students Use High-Tech Analytics to Optimize Plant Growth

November 9, 2018

Adjunct professor Ryan O’Connor consults students enrolled in an Internet of Things course that uses emerging technology to improve plant life at UConn’s Spring Valley Farm. Students, from left, are Nicole Hamilton '19 (BUS), Tara Watrous '19 (CLAS), and Radhika Kanaskar '18 (BUS).
Adjunct professor Ryan O’Connor consults students enrolled in an Internet of Things course that uses emerging technology to improve plant life at UConn’s Spring Valley Farm. Students, from left, are Nicole Hamilton ’19 (BUS), Tara Watrous ’19 (CLAS), and Radhika Kanaskar ’18 (BUS). (Claire Hall/UConn School of Business)

On select Tuesday nights, senior Radhika Kanaskar pops on warm boots and a heavy coat, and prepares for her management information systems class at UConn’s Spring Valley Farm.Continue Reading

2018 Voya Financial Colloquium Draws Top Scholars

Guest Speakers visited UConn for the 2018 Voya Colloquium. Pictured left to right, Page Moreau, Elie Ofek, and Markus Giesler.
Guest Speakers visited UConn for the 2018 Voya Colloquium. Pictured left to right, Page Moreau, Elie Ofek, and Markus Giesler. (Devin Basdekian / UConn School of Business)

The Marketing Department hosted the 8th annual Voya Financial Colloquium on Oct. 26, where three world renowned scholars, Markus Giesler, Page Moreau, and Elie Ofek, presented their research on creativity and innovation in marketing. Continue Reading

Stemler Participates in CTNext’s Entrepreneurship Retreat

Wesleyan University – Steve Stemler, associate professor of psychology, participated in the High Value Talents and Innovators’ Entrepreneurship Retreat Oct. 26-27 on campus. The new industry-academic initiative, supported by the CTNext Higher Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund works to increase entrepreneurial education and output among the state’s top researchers. The event was sponsored by Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

Inaugural Entrepreneurship & Innovation Expo Draws Many

October 30, 2018

A student experiments with virtual reality technology at the Fall Entrepreneurship & Innovation Expo.
A student experiments with virtual reality technology at the Fall Entrepreneurship & Innovation Expo. (Nathan Oldham / UConn School of Business)

Nursing students Jasmeen Mohammed and Katlin DiPietro couldn’t wait to tell visitors at the Fall Entrepreneurship & Innovation Expo about their project designed to calm elderly patients when they’re in the hospital.Continue Reading