{"id":220473,"date":"2024-10-25T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=220473"},"modified":"2024-10-25T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:37:51","slug":"uconn-people-october-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/10\/uconn-people-october-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; October 30, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Achievement <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>C\u00e9sar Abad\u00eda Barrero<\/strong>, associate professor of anthropology, was awarded the 2024 Alejandro \u00c1ngel Escobar National Prize in Social and Human Sciences in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, on Wednesday, Oct. 2. He received the honor for his research detailed in the book \u201cHealth in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital.\u201d The book investigates the effects of private sector involvement in Colombia\u2019s health system during the 1990s. The Alejandro \u00c1ngel Escobar Foundation presents the National Science and Solidarity Awards annually to recognize the most innovative and socially impactful scientific work by Colombian scientists and organizations dedicated to solidarity causes.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Torti, <\/strong>77, of Hanover, N.H., the former vice president for health affairs at UConn Health and dean of the School of Medicine, on Oct. 14.<\/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-220473","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":"2026-04-22 05:41:47","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\/220473","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=220473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220474,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220473\/revisions\/220474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220473"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=220473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=220473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}