Hartford Business Journal – When UConn math department administrators were thinking about revamping their courses about seven years ago, they asked professor Amit Savkar to look into why so many freshmen dropped out, withdrew or failed math classes.
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7 Big Data Stocks Fighting Coronavirus On and Off the Charts
Investor Place – With the rout in the stock market, investors are looking for things that will bounce back quickly. One obvious place to go looking is in the big data stocks. Coming into 2020, these companies were delivering stellar results. And now, the coronavirus serves as a potential catalyst to help them recover quickly.
Google updates policy to prevent discrimination in housing, job and credit ads
Modern Formals mobile store proves popular with customers
UConn Innovation Fund Provides Early-Stage Funding to Two Additional Startups
UConn fund awards $200K in seed funding for two startups
UConn Innovation Fund Invests in Two More University Startups
First cohort of 15 startups get set for Vimson Group & New Lab’s Prospect Mining Studio
International Mining – Back in October 2019, leading Indian mining conglomerate, Vimson Group and innovation hub, New Lab, announced a partnership to establish Prospect Mining Studio, a venture studio program bringing together entrepreneurs and industry experts to address the biggest challenges facing the mineral and natural resource mining sector. The focus is on enhancing sustainability and closed-loop production, environmental sensing, worker performance and safety, mineral extraction and energy efficiency, and data optimisation.
UConn Students, Alum Shine As Part of ‘The Ventilator Project’
UConn Today – A pair of UConn students and a recent graduate are part of a Boston-based effort that is trying to bring an emergency ventilator to market as quickly as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Noah Pacik-Nelson ’20 (ENG) now serves as the lead engineer for The Ventilator Project, an all-volunteer organization.