The University of Hartford’s Barney School of Business welcomed two new inductees into its Board of Visitors Alumni Hall of Fame.
Thomas O. Barnes Sr. (class of 1972), board chairman of the Barnes Group Inc. in Bristol, and Roger R. Klene (class of 1990), retired president and CEO of Mott Corp. in Farmington, were selected from more than 18,000 Barney alumni.
Barnes and Klene both are former members of the University of Hartford’s Board of Regents. The Barney School now has 14 members in its hall of fame.
UConn Health’s Graveley Named to NIH Advisory Panel
West Hartford resident Brenton Graveley has been invited to serve a four-year term on the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health.
Graveley is a professor of genetics and genome sciences at UConn Health.
The appointment at NIH will better align UConn’s genomics efforts with the funding interests of the NIH and vice versa.
Webster Banker Named Co-Chair of Governor’s Prevention Partnership Board
Webster Bank’s Chief Marketing Officer Dawn C. Morris has been named board co-chair of the Governor’s Prevention Partnership.
Morris will serve alongside Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. As a nonprofit, public-private organization, The Partnership provides mentoring for Connecticut’s youth.
National Science Foundation awards UConn $300K
The National Science Foundation has awarded UConn $300,000 to become an I-Corps Site and create the Accelerate UConn program, which will try to foster entrepreneurship by creating businesses out of technology developed at the school.
UConn will use the money over three years to expand its roster of innovators and entrepreneurs who will work to develop products that create economic growth and benefit humanity. The program will be co-developed by Jeff Seemann, vice president for research, and Timothy Folta, faculty director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
