{"id":209473,"date":"2024-02-05T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=209473"},"modified":"2024-02-07T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:42:34","slug":"uconn-people-february-7-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/02\/uconn-people-february-7-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; February 7, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Awards<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Devra Dang<\/strong>, clinical professor of pharmacy practice, has been awarded Campus Compact\u2019s Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. The award, presented in partnership with Brown University\u2019s Swearer Center, recognizes senior faculty who practice exemplary engaged scholarship through teaching and research.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Michael Invernale<\/strong>, a senior licensing manager in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Technology Commercialization Services, has been named a recipient of the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Howard Bremer Scholarship, sponsored by the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Association of University Technology Managers.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The scholarship supports future generations of technology transfer professionals who demonstrate exemplary levels of creativity and innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zeljko Mirkovic<\/strong>, an associate research professor at the Werth Institute, won the \u201cBest Sports Film\u201d and \u201cBest Biographical Documentary\u201d at the New Cinema Festival at the Brazilian Film Academy award for his documentary \u201cNiki Pilic-The Legend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Achievement<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Morrissey, <\/strong>marketing specialist and project manager in University Communications, earned his Master\u2019s of Business Administration from UConn, completing requirements in December. He earned his undergraduate degree in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bud Gavitt, <\/strong>89, of Westerly, R.I., a retired agricultural editor\/writer for nearly 31 years, on Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. William Hewett<\/strong>, 88, a former member of the UConn Health medical staff, on Feb. 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antoinette Hulse<\/strong>, 80, of Norwich, Conn., a retired employee of the William Benton Museum of Art, on Jan. 31<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Lehman<\/strong>, 90, of Glastonbury, Conn., a former faculty member at the School of Medicine, on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to submit a passing, retirement, notable birthday, achievement or a family event of a UConn employee or retiree for consideration, please email to work@uconn.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-209473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 06:23:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209572,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209473\/revisions\/209572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209473"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=209473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=209473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}