Entrepreneurship

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Getting Cozy: UConn Entrepreneur Focuses on Mindful Productivity as Werth Institute Program Continues Engaging First-Year Women

'Take every opportunity you’re given and just make sure that you’re loving what you’re doing, that you want to be here, that you want to learn'

Three College of Engineering researchers examine a water sensor in their lab at UConn.

Smart Water Sensors Help Preserve Clean Water Supplies

A College of Engineering research team is developing smart sensors for monitoring municipal wastewater, soil and other treatments with more accuracy and stability than existing sensor technology

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Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship on Display in Farmington

Summer Research Day celebrates accomplishments of UConn student researchers in the TIP Innovation Fellowship and Health Research programs

Class of 2027 UConn dental student Marcus A. Costa talking to investors about his healthy chewing gum invention. (Photo by Lauren Woods)

UConn Health Innovators Pitch Inventions to Industry and Investors

Inaugural ‘Innovation Catalyst’ event empowers innovators at UConn Health to transform their exciting research ideas into ventures

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Veterans’ Entrepreneurship Program: ‘Just Come and We Will Change Your Life’

The UConn program for veterans will surpass 300 graduates with this year's cohort

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UConn Entrepreneur Aims to Revolutionize Men’s Health Care

Reza Amin’s Bastion Health creates virtual, confidential, progressive approach to medical screening to help save lives

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Beautiful Moments: SFA Alum Brings Smiles to Bridal Couples with Live Event Painting

When Erin Leigh Boughamer '94 (SFA) left UConn three decades ago with a degree in graphic design from the School of Fine Arts, event painting hadn’t yet become part of bridal vocabulary. To ask her back then if she foresaw herself with a wardrobe of dressy pantsuits, each with at least a little dollop of acrylic paint on them, she’d have said no way

Tech Park Industrial Partnerships Panel

How to Partner With Industry (by Really Trying)

Successful UConn researchers offer Insight on fruitful collaboration with private industry

Members of the BittBridge team met in Stamford on Wednesday. Pictured from left: Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO, Yuma and DCG; Dmitrii Tuzov, Faeze Safari, and Jon Rohardjo, UConn graduate students; Professor Dave Wanik, BittBridge advisor; alumnus Evan Malanga '10, Chief Revenue Officer at Yuma; and Lindsay Stone, Director of Program Management at Yuma.

UConn Among First to Offer Experiential Learning in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence

Stamford-based Yuma experts to mentor students as they strive to solve business challenges

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Their Final Class Project? A Beer-Tasting Showdown

‘Battle of the Brews’ saw two student teams develop their own beers, from hops to marketing