{"id":238740,"date":"2025-12-05T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=238740"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:24:22","slug":"uconn-people-december-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/12\/uconn-people-december-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; December 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Achievement<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., K.C.S.L<\/strong> received the highest honor of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists &#8211; the Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award \u2013 at its recent annual meeting. The award is a lifetime achievement honor that recognizes an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences with a lasting impact.<\/p>\n<p><em>News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John O\u2019Leary<\/strong>, an employee in the Office of the Bursar, has been selected to present his research detailing the story about the survival of a World War II-era Mercedes-Benz at the American Historical Association Conference this January in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Bradbury<\/strong>, 86, of Berlin, Conn., a retired member of the UConn Health police department, on Nov. 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Kelleher<\/strong>, 94, of Bristol, Conn., a retired nurse at UConn Health, on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert King<\/strong>., Sr, 81, of Windham, Conn., a retired employee, on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joan Sandstrom<\/strong>, 94, of Boothbay, Maine, a retired secretary to the chairman of Department of Psychiatry at UConn Health, on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Weston<\/strong>, 68, of Coventry, Conn., and Crystal River, Fla., a retired 40-year employee of the Division of Athletics who was the Team Travel Manager, on Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-238740","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":"2026-07-04 03:47:55","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\/238740","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=238740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238925,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238740\/revisions\/238925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238740"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=238740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=238740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}