{"id":6145,"date":"2011-04-20T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2011-04-20T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:09:35","slug":"industryacademic-network-event-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/04\/industryacademic-network-event-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry\/Academic Network Event This Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/smaller-DSC_0077.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6166 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"smaller-DSC_0077\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/smaller-DSC_0077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/a>UConn is sponsoring an <em><strong>Innovation Connection <\/strong><\/em>function from 3-6\u00a0p.m.\u00a0Thursday, April 21 at the Storrs campus, featuring a panel discussion on the topic of innovation followed by tours of the Chemistry Building and a networking event. The program is open to industry professionals, venture capitalists, faculty and students who are interested in exploring collaborative opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s <em>Connection<\/em> function\u00a0is hosted by\u00a0Mun Choi, Dean of the School of Engineering; Jeremy Teitelbaum, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Steven Suib, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry; and Michael McPhee, President and CEO of McPhee Electric.<\/p>\n<p>The networking event will take place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.uconn.edu\/index.php\/map\/locations\/11\">Chemistry Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion, hosted by Mr. McPhee, will focus on economic development, collaboration and entrepreneurship. Dr.\u00a0Teitelbaum will moderate the conversation. The panel includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Dino, Northeast Utilities Scholar in Technological Entrepreneurship Associate Professor, Management<\/li>\n<li>Deb Santy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctinnovations.com\/funding\/sbir\/sbir.php\">Connecticut SBIR Program Director<\/a>, Connecticut Innovations<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Bouley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerac.com\/\">Nerac,<\/a> Entrepreneur<\/li>\n<li>Howard Orr, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktiinc.com\/\">KTI, Inc., <\/a>Entrepreneur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.engr.uconn.edu\/pdfs\/event-97-03-29-2011-21-April-Flier.pdf\">event flier<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.engr.uconn.edu\/rsvp\/index.php?rsvpId=751\">RSVP<\/a> required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn is sponsoring an Innovation Connection function from 3-6 p.m. Thursday, April 21 at the Storrs campus, featuring a panel discussion on the topic of innovation followed by tours of the Chemistry Building and a networking event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 20:03:18","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\/6145","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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}