The State of Connecticut is awarding $9 million in grants to six municipalities for infrastructure upgrades aimed at modernizing and rehabilitating housing for low and moderate-income individuals.
Read MoreHartford Seminary is now Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. The name change, announced Wednesday, comes as the institution’s emphasis has broadened, particularly in recent years, and against a backdrop of a renewed worldwide emphasis on building common ground among different peoples and communities of belief.
Read MoreThe UConn Center on Aging is now the home of a prestigious Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center grant, fitting for a flagship university in a state with the nation’s 7th oldest population. There are only 14 other “Pepper Centers” of excellence nationwide, named in honor of the late U.S. senator who championed research and education aimed at helping older adults maintain their independence.
Read MoreConnecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) is furthering its support of student well-being and mental health by joining JED Campus, a nationwide program of The Jed Foundation (JED), designed to help schools evaluate and strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems.
Read MoreMarking International Day of the Girl on October 11, Connecticut-based non-profit Girls With Impact, which offers programming including the nation’s only live, online mini-MBA for young women, unveiled a new initiative calling on leaders in business and media to share their most important advice for success with the next generation.
Read MoreMore than 225 business leaders learned about limitless opportunities in the drone industry at the Annual Meeting of ManufactureCT held just days before the start of Manufacturing Month in October. The featured speaker launched a drone manufacturing business in Connecticut that has attracted attention well beyond the state’s borders.
Read MoreThe University of Connecticut proudly proclaimed its 10th straight year among the nation’s Top 25 public universities last month, “safeguarding and building on its strengths over the last decade as a pacesetter in student success and academic excellence,” the university pointed out. Nationally, the outsized attention paid to rankings by higher ed institutions is raising concern.
Read MoreThe Gothic Revival-style house on Forest Street in Hartford that Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in and enjoyed from 1873 to her death in 1896 has meant many different things in its time as a historic artifact. Distinct, though not mutually exclusive, these assorted meanings point to the usefulness of history. Particularly now.
Read MoreApplications will be accepted online at ctwbdc.org through Sept.28 for The Women’s Business Development Council’s (WBDC) Equity Match Grant Program for women-owned businesses in Connecticut.
Read MoreLongtime Greenwich resident Indra Nooyi, a former President and CEO of PepsiCo, stepped down this past week as co-chair of AdvanceCT, an economic development advocate for the State of Connecticut, as her new book, My Life in Full, is being published, with a focus on the imperative to increase the ranks of women at the highest levels of corporations.
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