Grant Crawford of Cheshire, a professor of mechanical engineering at Quinnipiac University, recently received the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Ralph Coats Roe Award.
The award, which includes a $10,000 honorarium, recognizes a mechanical engineering educator who is known for outstanding teaching and leadership in the classroom and who has made notable professional contributions.
“In his more than 35 years of service as a mechanical engineering faculty member and administrator, his numerous leadership roles in multiple professional societies and his active duty service as an officer in the U.S. Army, Grant has provided exemplary leadership and distinguished service to his colleges, the nation and to mankind,” said Lynn Byers, chair of engineering, director of the mechanical engineering program and a professor of mechanical engineering at Quinnipiac.
Crawford served in the U.S. Army for nearly 30 years before coming to Quinnipiac in 2014.
Crawford holds a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas, an MS in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in mechanical engineering (aerospace) from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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New Haven biopharmaceutical developer Rallybio LLC has named Rachael Alford to lead the company’s Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) operations. In this role Alford will oversee process development, analytical and formulation development, and manufacturing and supply chain of Rallybio’s product candidates. Alford most recently was vice president of global process development at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, where she led both biologic and small-molecule process development across the lifecycle, analytical and formulation development, device development, tech transfer and clinical tech services. Before joining Alexion, Alford was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale. She holds a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry and a B.Sc in chemistry from Imperial College, London.
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Robert Cox
In response to the new commercial realities of the COVID-19 crisis, the law firm of Halloran Sage has established three new practice areas to assist buyers, sellers, brokers, investors and alternative lenders. The Restructuring, Reorganization and Bankruptcy practice is intended to help businesses use all legal tools to restructure and reposition themselves for growth. The Acquisition and Disposition of Distressed Entities and Debt Instruments practice is available to bargain hunters or sellers seeking to position themselves in high-stakes deals. Alternative lender platforms are represented through the firm’s new Alternative Lender Practice Group. All three of the practice areas will be chaired by attorney Robert Cox, who is based in New Haven and has represented middle market companies and financial institutions across Connecticut for some 40 years.
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Lee Colon of the Bronx, N.Y., a graduate student in the interactive media communications program at Quinnipiac University, recently became the school’s first student to receive a fellowship award from the Hearst Corp. The fellowship, which focuses on multimedia journalism, consists of two 12-month rotations at Hearst’s top metro papers. The program has produced dozens of journalists now working at Hearst newspapers and other media organizations around the country. Colon earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English from Quinnipiac in 2019 and is scheduled to complete her master’s degree in 2020.
