UConn Today Before Sun Products Corp. hired UConn chemistry major Casey Camire as a summer intern, students studying engineering typically dominated the internship application pool. Many companies, like Trumbull, Conn.-based Sun Products, which develops and markets household cleaning supplies, typically look first for chemical engineering college students when recruiting for their internship programs. But chemistry […]
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
Cutting-edge technologies, innovative partnerships, and bold leadership took center stage April 10, during UConn’s Second Annual Celebration of Innovation event at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The event, presented by the Office of Economic Development, recognized the research and development achievements of UConn faculty, alumni, and UConn-related startup companies, as well as industry partners and […]
Distinguished Chemist Returns to UConn
When Azita Owlia, PhD ’84, traveled from her home of Tehran, Iran to visit family in Connecticut in 1978, she didn’t expect to stay – let alone to go on to earn a BS, MS and PhD in chemistry at UConn. But when the senior vice president at Bayer Material Science returned to Storrs this […]