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A top research and entrepreneurship official at UConn thinks the Constitution State has the opportunity to jump to the forefront of the cannabis industry's startup scene. Abhijit (Jit) Banerjee, UConn's associate vice president for research, innovation and entrepreneurship, said he thinks state funding for a limited-time incubator for UConn staff and faculty working in the cannabis space could yield innovative companies in the emerging legal marijuana market.

State investment has been crucial to UConn’s growth and continued success.

University of Connecticut President Thomas Katsouleas plans to resign his position by June 30, according to a letter he submitted to the school’s board of trustees chair in March. Sources say his relationship with UConn’s Board of Trustees has deteriorated but called his resignation voluntary. The conflict had several causes, sources said, beginning with an unexpected announcement at his inauguration to provide free tuition for lower-income households. More recently, he announced the univer...

University of Connecticut President Thomas Katsouleas plans to resign his position by June 30, according to a letter he submitted to the school’s board of trustees chair in March. "For reasons we have discussed at length over time, I have made the difficult decision to resign my position as President of the University of Connecticut," Katsouleas wrote in the March 13 letter addressed to UConn Board of Regents Chair Dan Toscano. "I appreciate your understanding of my decision." The university ...

UConn TIP Receives Premiere InBIA Randall Whaley Award and Prize UConn TIP has received a prestigious recognition from the International Business Innovation Association. Nicole Wagner, CEO of UConn TIP company LambdaVision, works in the lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo) Copy Link The UConn Technology Incubation Program (TIP) has received the Randall M. Whaley Award from the International Business Innovation Association (I...

A pilot coop program at UConn’s Stamford campus this fall will train students interested in entrepreneurship how to develop new products, while hopefully creating intellectual property like prototypes and patents. Students working for the program will take one or two semesters off from academic work to live on UConn’s Stamford campus, where they will be paid as full-time employees by the university’s Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Image Tara Watrous If it’s success...

A small Farmington biotech is looking to scale up after securing a patent for a novel pain treatment using a derivative of ketamine.  MediSynergics, a company led by two former Pfizer drug researchers, operates out of a lab on the UConn Health campus as part of UConn’s Technology Incubation Program (TIP) program.  The new patented compound shows promise as an alternative to opioid medications, said MediSynergics CEO Dennis M. Godek. “There’s a great need for new pain medications,” God...

New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI/PRNewswire): Indian Women Institutional League India (IWIL India), is the leading advocate for incubating, accelerating and empowering more than 20,000 aspiring young women, MSMEs and entrepreneurs across 25 cities. Forging ahead with the motive, IWIL India launched the decades largest Tech Design Conference - Tech Supergirl this week to empower, incubate and accelerate women in the technological space in India and to make them become self-reliant and capable en...

04/22/21 A new private 5G network at the University of Connecticuts Stamford campus will advance academic programs and expand entrepreneurial activities in the Stamford Data Science Initiative. The university is working with AT&T to roll out the companys 5G millimeter wave and multi-access edge compute (MEC) technology, which enables near real-time, ultra-high bandwidth and ultra-low latency access for latency-dependent mobile applications, according to a news announcement. The collaboration is...

UConn and AT&T Collaborate to Bring Private 5G Network to Stamford Lab UConn Stamford one of the first elite campuses in the Northeast region to advance academic programs with 5G+ and multi-access edge compute technology News provided by Share this article DALLAS, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Whats the news? The University of Connecticut (UConn) and AT&T* are working together to advance entrepreneurship, innovation, and data science using AT&T 5G+ millimeter wave and Multi-access Edge Compu...