May 08
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Jolina Li won’t need to look for a job when she graduates this year with her bachelor’s degree in finance. The 23-year-old entrepreneur and UConn senior has already created one for herself as the founder of YumZing.com, an online startup business. And now, she’s among several students receiving a major boost through a new UConn competition to foster exactly that kind of ambition and innovation.
Li’s team and three others were named the inaugural winners of Innovation Quest (IQ), which launched this year at UConn as an expansion of a competition that started almost a decade ago at California Polytechnic State University. Click here to read the full article.
May 08
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May 1, 2012: To silence her stubborn hiccups during the summer of 2010, Mallory Kievman tried swallowing saltwater, making herself gag, eating a spoonful of sugar, sipping pickle juice and drinking a glass of water upside-down. Nearly two years and 100 attempted folk remedies later, the 13-year-old is preparing to lead a team of M.B.A. students from the University of Connecticut in building a company that can bring her invention — Hiccupops, or hiccup-stopping lollipops — to market this summer.
The University of Connecticut’s Innovation Accelerator plans to dispatch a group of graduate business students this summer to help push Hiccupops out into the world. The students will work from late May through August and get paid for their labor by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a university hub that hosts the Innovation Accelerator program. The center’s executive director, Christopher Levesque, will be their mentor.
So far, Mallory has presented her product at a state economic summit and at the Xcellr8 Innovation Cell, a networking group. In January, she joined a group of Startup America entrepreneurs ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Click here to read the full article.
Source: The New York Times
May 02
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April 26, 2012: University of Connecticut Avery Point officially opened new science labs Thursday aimed at helping startup companies, something the lead organizer called a major step in the school’s economic outreach.
Five new laboratories on the Groton campus will be available for lease by startups accepted into the University’s Technology Incubation Program at a rate of $20 per square foot, per year, with a $2 increase per square foot in each subsequent year. Four are chemistry labs, and the fifth is a biology facility. The largest is a 490-square-foot chemistry room.
Click here to read the full article. (Source: Norwich Bulletin)
