New Initiative Urges Business Leaders to Share Advice with Next Gen Girls

New Initiative Urges Business Leaders to Share Advice with Next Gen Girls

Marking 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.

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CT Celebrates Manufacturing Month Highlighting Drone Technology and More

CT Celebrates Manufacturing Month Highlighting Drone Technology and More

More 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.

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UConn Nationally Ranked Again, As Some Question Preoccupation with Rankings in U.S.

UConn Nationally Ranked Again, As Some Question Preoccupation with Rankings in U.S.

The 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.

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Stowe’s Hartford Home A Story of the Ages and the Usefulness of History

Stowe’s Hartford Home A Story of the Ages and the Usefulness of History

The 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.

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