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Two Ambitious UConn Grad Students Win Top Prizes in National Insurance Competition Focused on Pet-Care Policies

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UConn Today – Two UConn graduate students took home the first-place and runner-up awards in the ACORD Student Challenge, an insurance-industry competition that drew dozens of participants from across the country.

Manasa Ramaka, a graduate student in the Business Analytics and Project Management (BAPM) program, took first place and accepted the $5,000 grand prize. Rutendo Mahanzu, a graduate student enrolled in the Financial and Enterprise Risk Management (FERM) program, shared the runner-up prize with a student from Georgia Tech, and took home a $2,000 award.

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UConn Real Estate Students Take Top Prize in ‘Future of Housing’ Competition at Boston College

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UConn Today – UConn Real Estate students took first-place in a national ‘future of housing’ competition, presenting a detailed proposal for a 42-unit residential building, with a commercial kitchen and computer center, that would allow residents to participate in workforce development and cooking and nutritional courses.

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Alumna Kenzie Blowers ’25 Works as Allocation Expert at HomeGoods Headquarters

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UConn Today – Call it fate, serendipity, or just plain good luck, but alumna Mackenzie “Kenzie’’ Blowers ’25 had a stroke of career fortune during her second year as a UConn student.

Blowers was assigned to the second floor of Belden Hall and her RA was Danielle Harrington ‘24. Harrington had created a poster for students to get to know a bit about her, and she included her experience as an intern at The TJX Companies.

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UConn Business Students Place in Top Three at BU Case Competition

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UConn Today – A dream team with great chemistry, months of brainstorming, research and practice, and a well-executed presentation helped five UConn Case Club teammates finish in the Top 3 in the prestigious Boston University Questrom 50K Sustainability Case Competition.

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School of Business Announces New One-Year MBA Program, Cutting the Time to Completion in Half

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UConn Today – The School of Business is launching a new One-Year MBA program, a fast-track alternative that offers the same rigor, coursework, and faculty instruction as the two existing MBA paths, but can be completed in about half the time.

The 42-credit One-Year MBA program will begin this summer. The School currently serves 750 MBA students, enrolled in either a completely online MBA program or a flexible, hybrid alternative.

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UConn’s Entrepreneurship Ranking Climbs in 2026 Princeton Review Findings

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UConn Today – UConn’s reputation as an entrepreneurship academic powerhouse climbed significantly in the 2026 rankings released Nov. 12 by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur.

The results were based on 40 data points including academic offerings, faculty credentials, experiential learning, mentorship, and more.

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Risk Management Experts Highlight the Need for Young Talent During Two-Day Business Event

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UConn Today – The School of Business hosted its first ‘Risk Manager on Campus Event,’ a two-day program to encourage students to consider careers in the growing fields of risk management and insurance.

The event included panel discussions, classroom visits, and an opportunity for students to network with some top leadership in the field. Many of the speakers highlighted the risk industry’s need for young talent.

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Professor: Supply Chain Management Can Strengthen Connecticut’s Vital Manufacturing Sector

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UConn Today – Connecticut’s manufacturing sector remains a powerful economic engine, supporting thousands of jobs and driving innovation in aerospace, defense, health care, and beyond.

Last year, the state’s manufacturers generated more than $34 billion in output, approximately 12% of the state’s gross state product. Connecticut is home to more than 4,500 manufacturing companies and more than 153,000 people work in the industry in our state, according to the latest data.

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Professor Berger-Walliser Tells Magazine that a Love of the Arts Can Pair Well with a Career in Business

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UConn Today – Professor Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, head of the Marketing Department, was featured in the quarterly issue of the International Child Art Foundation’s ChildArt Magazine.

In the interview Berger-Walliser, an associate professor of business law in the School of Business, talked about growing up in a small town in Germany and loving music from a very young age.

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