Connecticut is home to countless inventors, but the innovators drawing the highest praise--from the likes of the Ellen DeGeneres Show, CBS's Cyberchase and ZOOM in recent years--are the pint-sized variety. On Saturday, May 1, 650 youthful inventors will file into Gampel Pavilion armed with display boards, inventor's logs, and working models of inventions they designed and built.

The University of Connecticut's School of Engineering has announced the hiring of a Connecticut business leader to assist the university in forging relationships with technology-related companies throughout the state. Robin Ann Bienemann will work with the university's leadership to develop and implement strategies to connect these companies with the resources at UConn.

A faculty team that includes Douglas Cooper (PI), professor of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering -- and co-PIs Kazem Kazerounian, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Initiatives, Mun Y. Choi, Dean of Engineering and professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Ruth Washington, associate professor-in-residence of Molecular & Cell Biology

The School of Engineering will hold commencement ceremonies for graduating undergraduates on Sunday, May 9 in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been reappointed to a second five-year term as the Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering.