The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) has named Clare Leinweber its next executive director. Beginning in mid-summer, Leinweber will lead Tsai CITY in its mission to inspire and support students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to address real-world problems.
Leinweber joins Yale from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she led the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship center. In this role, she directed co-curricular innovation programs for Penn undergraduate and graduate students in Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Leinweber holds a master’s degree in human development and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, both from the University of Chicago. She also holds a graduate certificate in management from the Wharton School and a master’s degree in public health from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Robert Cottrell of Monroe, clinical assistant professor of biomedical sciences and the program director of pathologist assistant studies at Quinnipiac University, has been elected to a four-year term beginning Sept. 27 as an American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants (AAPA) representative on the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science (NAACLS) board of directors.
Cottrell earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Quinnipiac. His appointment reflects distinguished achievements in service to students, patients, community, the profession and the AAPA.
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