Matt Beaudoin of Mystic Knotwork Named Connecticut's 2020 Small Business Person of the Year

Matt Beaudoin of Mystic Knotwork Named Connecticut's 2020 Small Business Person of the Year

Leading what is described as the first and oldest knot shop in the nation, Mystic Knotwork’s President & CEO Matthew Beaudoin has been named as the Connecticut’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U. S. Small Business Administration. The award coincides with 2020 Small Business Week, being celebrated this week in September.

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CT Employers Anticipate Overall Employment Growth 4th Quarter, Led by Hartford Region; New Haven 1 of 3 Regions in U.S. Anticipating Employment Reduction

CT Employers Anticipate Overall Employment Growth 4th Quarter, Led by Hartford Region; New Haven 1 of 3 Regions in U.S. Anticipating Employment Reduction

Employers in the U.S. – including Connecticut - report improved hiring plans for Q4 following the ten year low reported in Q3 according to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey of more than 8,700 U.S. employers. Connecticut employers plan to hire at a slower pace with an Employment Outlook of 6%.

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CT's Paid Family Leave Program Nears, Launches New Explanatory Website

CT's Paid Family Leave Program Nears, Launches New Explanatory Website

Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Paid Leave Authority have announced the launch of a new website – CTPaidLeave.org – with the goal of supporting all Connecticut residents to understand their roles, rights, and responsibilities based on Connecticut’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), described as the most comprehensive in the nation.

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CT Company's Bedside Portable MRI Seen as Medical Care Breakthrough in Yale-New Haven Study

CT Company's Bedside Portable MRI Seen as Medical Care Breakthrough in Yale-New Haven Study

A study just-published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Neurology demonstrates for the first time the feasibility of a Guilford company’s industry-changing portable low-field magnetic resonance image (MRI) device at the bedside, rather than a conventional imaging suite, in critical care settings.

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Marketing Competition for Teenage Girls A Success of Connecticut’s COVID Summer

Marketing Competition for Teenage Girls A Success of Connecticut’s COVID Summer

One of the bright spots in an otherwise unsettling summer for a few dozen Connecticut 6th -12th grade girls was the time spent participating in a virtual marketing competition known as Camp Erio. The focus was on deeloping a business idea or product that must work to solve the problem and/or improve the lives of people being negatively effected by this problem. The results: impressive.

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Connecticut Has Presence in National Inventors Hall of Fame, Including Some Less-Than-Household Names

Connecticut Has Presence in National Inventors Hall of Fame, Including Some Less-Than-Household Names

The National Inventors Hall of Fame has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. During those 47 years, 17 inventors with Connecticut connections have been inducted. Some are household names, others less so.

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ECSU Dean to Receive STEM Achievement Award from Connecticut Science Center

ECSU Dean to Receive STEM Achievement Award from Connecticut Science Center

The Connecticut Science Center has named Carmen Cid, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University, recipient of its 2020 STEM Achievement Award. The 2020 Petit Family Foundation Women in Science Leadership Award will go to Jacquelynn Garofano, the Margaret Ingels Engineering Development Program Manager at Raytheon Technologies.

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Governor’s Innovation Fellowship Ready for Launch in Stamford with 18 Recent College Graduates

Governor’s Innovation Fellowship Ready for Launch in Stamford with 18 Recent College Graduates

The Governor's Innovation Fellowship (GIF), administered by StamfordNext and supported by CTNext, has announced the first cohort of fellows for the program, scheduled to begin this month. Sixteen companies in Stamford will be providing positions for 18 recent college graduates, urged to “Become the next generation of great leaders in Connecticut.”

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