UConn Today – Alumna Mary Laschinger is one of only 24 women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. To be clear: That is 24 out of 500.Continue Reading
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Alum Dan Toscano Named Board of Trustees Chair
UConn Today – Dan Toscano, a UConn alum and active supporter of a wide range of university initiatives, has been named the next Board of Trustees chairman.Continue Reading
What Can Real-Time Data Analytics Do for Higher Education?
Puris CEO Tyler Lorenzen on the push for pea protein in meat…
Responding to the Times
Report: Sackler family would give up Purdue in $10-$12 billion settlement
Using facial recognition technology for… hailstorms?
UConn president’s goals: expand research and entrepreneurship, mitigate pension liability
Hartford Business Journal – The University of Connecticut’s new president, Thomas C. Katsouleas, got his marching orders Wednesday — a wide-ranging list of goals from working with the corporate community on workforce development to taking steps to mitigate the effect of the state’s burdensome unfunded pension liability.
Dan Haar: Recession coming; how will Connecticut fare?
The Value of the So-Called ‘Token’ Woman
UConn Today – Women who break into traditional male bastions—engineering teams, construction crews, tech startups, trading rooms, corporate boards, combat units—sometimes get tagged with the pejorative “token,” suggesting that their inclusion had more to do with appearances than aptitude. But what happens when a woman’s ideas are actually heard and enacted by her male teammates?