{"id":211240,"date":"2024-03-18T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=211240"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:01:32","slug":"uconn-people-march-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/03\/uconn-people-march-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; March 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Honors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Raman Bahal<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and <strong>Thanh Nguyen<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, were among 124 emerging academic entrepreneurs in the United States named as 2024 Senior Members National Academy of Inventors.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Theresa Digiulio<\/strong>, 80, of Coventry, Conn., a former attending veterinarian consultant, on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judy Freet<\/strong>, 70, of Canton, Conn., a former nurse manager at UConn Health, on March 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Hill<\/strong>, 75, of Storrs, Conn., a retired professor in pathobiology, on March 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Leonard<\/strong>, 38, of Newington, Conn., an employee in dining services and a custodian, on March 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Arthur Phinney<\/strong>, 97, of Chappaquiddick, Mass., who was active in UConn Health in its initial stages, on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pamela Rapacz<\/strong>, 81, of Wethersfield, Conn., a former researcher at UConn Health, on March 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Tait<\/strong>, 91, of Montpelier, Vt., a former professor at UConn Law, on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary T\u0151k\u00e9s<\/strong>, 90, of Mansfield Center, Conn., an early employee of a biotechnology researcher center, on March 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Vinisko<\/strong>, 75, of Torrington, Conn., a 20-year police officer at UConn Health, on March 3.<\/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,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-211240","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":"2026-07-02 10:44:38","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\/211240","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=211240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211241,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211240\/revisions\/211241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211240"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=211240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=211240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}