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 Dr. Jack Rowe has had many titles: professor at Harvard and Columbia, CEO and chairman of Aetna, CEO of Mount Sinai Medical Center, chair of the UConn board, and one that actually came first: scholarship student.
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 In WWII, an MIT computer was used to calculate trajectories for naval cannons. John Lof was one of the graduate students who worked on it, and when he followed a colleague to UConn, he brought newfound expertise with him.
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 A $140,000 corporate gift from SimplexGrinnell will provide scholarships to engineering and business students. The gift also will support the senior design project program at the School of Engineering.
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 Over the years, frequent donor Dominick Pagano has hired many UConn graduates who became skilled in handling high-speed computers by working on his sponsored research grants.
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 With financial support from the NFL and Gatorade, the new Korey Stringer Institute for heat illness prevention at the Neag School of Education will provide Stringer with a new legacy.
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 The inaugural White Coat Gala was held on April 10. The event was attended by nearly 500 people and grossed more than $450,000 for the Health Center.
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 For nursing alumna Lindsay Bolt ’04, the decision to give back to UConn was personal, based on a long-running friendly relationship with the donor who helped fund her own education. Over several years, Bolt managed to repay the scholarship in full.
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 By nearly any measure, the Winingers are a UConn family. Twins William and Michael graduated in 2004. Their older brother, Matthew Wininger ’00, has become an active young alumni donor and advocate for the actuarial science program.
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 Scott Harrison '99 was never the typical engineering student at UConn, he says, but credits the education he received with his later success in sales and marketing in the business world. Today, he's giving back so others have the same opportunities.
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 UConn connections run deep for the Hughes family, something that has carried through to their growing family business, TopCoder, and now also in their philanthropic support for the UConn School of Business and programs for disabled veterans.
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 Patrick Campion '83 worked his way through UConn, flipping hamburgers in the Student Union, as an RA and as an assistant in the CLAS dean's office. Now CEO of the US Private Bank at HSBC in Manhattan, Campion knows the importance of giving back.
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 Michael Cantor '80 '83 is a booster for economic development. He serves on state and University boards promoting it. He has expanded his own law firm. And he is committed to the education of innovative UConn students.
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 Justin Murphy '89 was good at blocking defenders when he played UConn football in the 1980s. He has found those same skills useful surviving hard hits to the financial markets.
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 As a professor of art and the past director of the Benton Museum, Salvatore Scalora '71 has seen the power of philanthropy. Today, he and his family personify it in their tribute to his late wife, Mary Scalora '80 '92.
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 Wendy Reeves Watkins '74 joined the Foundation's Board of Directors in October 2009. However, she's been supporting UConn since she graduated, as a way of saying thanks for a career that brought her to the top of accounting and banking.
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 Tom Juros wanted to memorialize his beloved wife in the most compelling way possible. He pledged a gift to create two scholarships at UConn, in the Neag School of Education and the School of Engineering.
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 Stan Sussman '61, owner of a 2008 UConn Connecticut Family Business of the Year, has made a $100,000 bequest to create a scholarship fund, with preference given to students qualifying for the international student educational travel program.
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