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Principle Wealth’s ‘Micro-Internships’ Give Students Exposure to Wealth Management

By offering a one-week, paid internship, students can get exposure without having to disrupt their academic schedule or bypass other work opportunities.

May 13, 2026 | Claire Hall

a group of UConn students pose during Commencement 2026.

Commencement Speaker Toni Boucher: Resilience, Enthusiasm, Determination Key to Thriving in Unpredictable Times

“I see the future leaders who will propel Connecticut forward, who will make this university a technology juggernaut that attracts top talent and investment, who will make UConn the undisputed innovation leader of our state,’’

May 11, 2026 | Claire Hall

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Real Estate Alum Nicholas Morizio Donates $1 Million for Scholarships

Morizio credits UConn for helping him find his path in life

May 7, 2026 | Claire Hall

Alumni
UConn alum David Abeles sits in a golf cart next to Rory McIlroy.

TaylorMade Golf CEO David Abeles ‘93 Says Success Comes from Strategy, Passion, and the Right Corporate Culture

'At UConn I had wonderful, incredible classmates and professors. I remember some of my classes like they were yesterday'

May 5, 2026 | Claire Hall

Alumni Athletics
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UConn Establishes Endowed Accounting Professorship with KPMG

Professorship strengthens faculty leadership and academic excellence in accounting

April 30, 2026 | Claire Hall

Two female graduates are seen hugging each other as they celebrate finally being done their education. They are dressed in formal black gowns and have caps on.

New UConn-Dartmouth Study: Racial Diversity in Higher Ed Leads to Higher Salaries for Grads

Researchers examined more than 6,000 cohorts of MBA and law students over several decades and found that having even one additional minority student among a cohort of 100 students increased starting salaries cumulatively across the cohort by up to $30,000

April 29, 2026 | Claire Hall

UConn Voices
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UConn Welcomes Five Exceptional Leaders Into Business Hall of Fame

Honored guests tell students: Lean on your UConn pack

April 28, 2026 | Claire Hall

Alumni
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Innovation Quest Selects Five Top Startups, Ranging from Manufacturing Innovation to New Hair-Care Option

The student entrepreneurs impressed the judges with both the quality of their ideas and their dedication to bringing them to market

April 23, 2026 | Claire Hall

Entrepreneurship Research & Discovery
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UConn Business Students Claim ‘Double Victories’ at QuantumUP! Event

Transportation efficiency was the area tackled by both teams from the MSBAPM program

April 16, 2026 | Claire Hall

UConn alumna Toni (Iannuzzi) Boucher stands with her father and brother in this family photo.

Business Woman, Legislator, Philanthropist and Alumna Toni Boucher Describes Her Journey from Poverty to the American Dream

Boucher, one of the School of Business’ most important alumni benefactors and the undergraduate commencement speaker this spring, has long been a champion of entrepreneurship, student opportunity, and the power of a business education to change lives.

April 14, 2026 | Claire Hall

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Professor Robert Day Named Interim Dean of Business School as University Renews Search For Permanent Leader

From an academic viewpoint, Day said he is excited about enhancing artificial intelligence education in business, continuing to grow experiential learning, and expanding access for the growing number of students interested in business. He is committed to student retention, recruiting domestically and abroad, and supporting innovative programs on the regional campuses.

April 8, 2026 | Claire Hall

UConn Grad students Trishan Kundu and Vitosavero Avila Wibisono pose for a photo with an executive from Principal Insurance at the InsurTech NY University Competition.

UConn Grad Students Win InsurTech NY Challenge By Offering Practical Solutions to Insurance-Provider Woes

“Experiences like this are exactly what we strive to create for our students—a chance to take what they’ve learned in the classroom, step into a real-world challenge, and show the world what UConn talent looks like,’’ said Laurissa Berk, director of Global and Experiential Education at the School of Business. “This team came in with a phenomenal, industry-informed idea, and they absolutely delivered.’’

April 2, 2026 | Claire Hall

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UConn Researcher: How People Communicate About Shared Decisions Can Shape the Outcome, Satisfaction

'What you say when making a consumer decision can affect how you feel not only about your choice, but also about your relationship and your partner'

April 1, 2026 | Claire Hall

Research & Discovery
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Deloitte Foundation Awards $25,000 Doctoral Fellowship to UConn Ph.D. Candidate Tuan Doan

“Tuan stands out as one of the most impressive Ph.D. students I have worked with,’’ said professor Ying Zhou, co-chair of Doan’s dissertation committee.

March 27, 2026 | Claire Hall

A young man in a UConn t-shirt sits next to a heavy punching bag.

Two-Time National Champion Boxer, Business Student Aidan Jubb: ‘When the Final Bell Rings…You’re Like, ‘Is It Already Over?’’’

Editor's Note: Congratulations to senior Aidan Jubb, who won his third National Collegiate Boxing Association championship title earlier this month during competition in Charlotte, N.C. Jubb said the win was a great way to cap off his UConn boxing career.

March 25, 2026 | Claire Hall

Athletics Entrepreneurship
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Management Professor John E. Mathieu Reaches Rare Scholarly Milestone

Mathieu’s work has influenced Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Armed Services, and public agencies including NASA, the FAA, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

March 24, 2026 | Claire Hall

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With DNA Research Advancing Quickly, Can Laws and Policies Keep Pace?

These ideas will be explored during the next event in the Equity Now Speaker Series, which will be held on April 3rd, 2026 at 11am (virtual).

March 23, 2026 | Claire Hall

Finance student Vibeke Iyer '27 asks a question during the Finance Society's trip to Wall Street last week.

Student-Run Finance Society’s NYC Conference Delivers Exceptional Returns

“Events like these highlight what makes UConn alumni stand out in the finance world—a strong sense of community, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine willingness to support the next generation’’—Alumnus Chris Walker ’19 of Morgan Stanley

March 11, 2026 | Claire Hall

Two teams of UConn MBA candidates are among an elite group of students advancing in the highly competitive National Ethics Case Competition. The teams—that tackled ethics in the pharmaceutical industry and in artificial intelligence—are among the 10 percent of entrants to move to Round 2 in the competition. Only 37 teams in total were selected from the more than 300 who entered. “This project was very ambitious for them. They all have important jobs with big responsibilities in defense, hospital tech, administration and more,’’ said business law professor Stephen Hudspeth, who encouraged his graduate students to participate. “The UConn School of Business is heavily committed to ethics. As a school we care about it enormously. We think our students should be well prepared to address a competition like this,’’ he said. In Round One, the teams had to create a trade association focused on ethical principles, define its scope and objectives, and compare how their guidance would relate to a profit-maximization strategy. Subhead: Turning Ethical Ideas Into Executive Decision-Making in Pharmaceuticals “This experience has reinforced for me that the hardest ethical decisions are rarely ‘right vs. wrong.’ They are tradeoffs between competing duties that all matter, made under real constraints like patient access, evidence integrity, and long-term viability,’’ said Kwenyerechi “Promise’’ Onuorah. Her teammates included Ryan Emerson, Josie-Ryan-Small and Willian Tellini. “What challenged me most was translating ethical ideals into an executive-level decision process that a board could actually use,’’ she said. “Building the four-stage approval funnel and the viability gate in the Round One submission forced me to be explicit about who benefits, who bears the costs, and what safeguards and accountability are needed so an initiative is both ethically defensible and sustainable over time.’’ The team’s submission presented an ethical decision framework for U.S. pharmaceutical companies to evaluate ethical initiatives that may reduce short-term profits while protecting long-term legitimacy and innovation capacity, she said. Using a four-stage approval funnel, the guide addresses five recurring industry dilemmas and issues clear recommendations, including requiring full clinical transparency and results reporting, encouraging tiered pricing and green manufacturing, and limiting neglected disease R&D and emergency IP sharing to structured safeguards or compensation. The competition judges deemed the paper among the Top Four and it will be published in a national journey after the competition ends. The other three top teams hailed from Cornell, Notre Dame and Utah. The four papers were selected based on “the depth of reasoning, clarity, and a strong engagement with complex ethical questions.’’ Subhead: Another Team Addressed Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Another UConn team also impressed the judges and is moving on to the next level of competition. “Our group selected AI as our industry because it is becoming the defining technology of our generation,’’ said Navdeep Singh. “The gap between the speed of AI development and lack of regulatory guardrails is where the consequential decisions, or lack thereof, are being made right now. We wanted to be in that space and try to create a framework that could be applied to real-world companies.’’ Singh’s teammates included Zayne Olsen, Brandon Kramp and Vanna Patel. “In Round One, our team created an Industry Guide to Ethical Business Practice. We focused on two of the industry's pressing concerns: the environmental impact of AI data centers, which are projected to cost the U.S. more than $20 billion annually, and the displacement of workers whose jobs are being automated away faster than retraining programs can keep up,’’ Singh said. Like their peers on the pharmaceuticals team, they discovered that ethical decision-making in business is rarely a straightforward and simple choice between right and wrong. “The framework we created gave AI companies a structured, principled way to evaluate social initiatives and business decisions using the values of integrity, trust, accountability, transparency, fairness, respect, rule of law, and viability,’’ he said. Subhead: Top Team Will Be Awarded $120,000 The National Ethics Case Competition is led by Texas A&M University in partnership with the Daniels Fund. Bill Daniels was a pioneer of cable TV and a visionary who believed in the power and responsibility of individuals to improve the world. The competition, open to undergraduate and graduate students, awards substantial prizes, including a first-place award of $120,000 divided between the team, the university, and the advisor. In Round 2, the teams are required to create a hypothetical situation for a company and its senior leadership that raises serious ethical concerns with intense ambiguity as to its resolution, building on their original paper. The two UConn teams have already submitted their proposal for Round 2 and are awaiting the results. If they move forward, they will compete in Rounds 3 and 4 in-person in Washington D.C. This is only the second time the competition was open to teams nationwide. A third team, composed of Jessica Ulbrich, Danielle Churchill, Lylliam Sekkat and Thomas Thorndike, addressed ethics in the food and beverage industry. Although they didn’t move on to the next round, their presentation was very strong, said Hudspeth, who described all 12 student participants as exceptional. “They’re really sophisticated and able students,’’ he said. “I loved the cohesiveness of the teams. They all worked exceptionally well together. The students across the MBA program are bright, wonderful, and such a pleasure to teach. You’ll never have a better group of students. They are the cream of the crop!’’

UConn MBA Students Among the Elite in National Ethics Case Competition

‘They Are the Cream of the Crop!’

March 6, 2026 | Claire Hall

A team of finance students from the Stamford campus took first place in the CFA Research Challenge last week. Pictured from left are: Dylan Haig, Philip Ochocinski, Hunter Baillargeon, Richard Opper, and Rushit Chauhan, all members of the Class of 2026.

Stamford Finance Students Wow Judges, Take Home Trophy in Regional CFA Competition

The first round of competition featured 24 college teams from the Stamford-Hartford-Providence region.

March 4, 2026 | Claire Hall