CNN– Reducing the cost of medical care, rather than health insurance, is so often underemphasized or even absent from discussions of reforming the health care system. And yet lowering costs of medical care is essential for broadening access to care, reducing insurance premiums and ultimately ensuring better health.
Author: Melissa Ferrigno
UConn Student Entrepreneurs
Litchfield County Struggles With Population Decline
Fodor Inducted to UConn Hall of Fame
Telegram.com– The University of Connecticut School of Business inducted investor and entrepreneur John R. Fodor into its hall of fame.
Mr. Fodor recently retired as executive vice president of Capital Group/American Funds, a mutual fund investment company. He also serves on the UConn business school dean’s advisory cabinet and has lectured at the school.
MEM Students Tour Dymotek’s Manufacturing Facility
UConn Management and Engineering for Manufacturing – MEM students and faculty visited Dymotek, a molding and assembling facility in Ellington, Conn. Norman Forest, CEO of the company welcomed everyone, and his staff guided our students throughout the plant.
Nursing Students Tackle Real-World Healthcare Needs
UConn Today – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome can strike fear in the heart of a new parent – something Olivia Briggs ’17 (NUR) knows well. When her nephew was a newborn, her sister obsessively bounced in and out of his room to make sure he was still breathing, she recalls. Not long before, a friend of her sister’s lost her baby to SIDS, the cause of 4,000 sleeping-related deaths annually in the United States, according to the American SIDS Institute.
2017 Best & Brightest: Romanna (Roma) Romaniv, University of Connecticut
11 MBAs With the Highest Return for Grads Earning $100,000-Plus
U.S. News – MBA grads from these business schools have at least a 240 percent average return, U.S. News data show.
The Social & Academic Case for Living in a Learning Community
Poets & Quants for Undergrads– As a freshman business major at the University of Connecticut, Elizabeth Perry has already hobnobbed with the dean of the business school, helped organize a case competition for Target and attended speed-networking events that have helped her forge valuable connections in the business world. Those types of experiences would have been out of her reach had she not checked off a box on the housing application for UConn’s Business Connections Learning Community back when she was a senior in high school.
Study on Naugatuck Greenway Notes Potential Economic Impact
The Register Citizen– The final version of a study on the potential impact of the Naugatuck River Greenway was released last week by the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments and it predicts strong economic benefits and as many as 2.6 million visits by 2031.