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Knightlines Spring 2018 A PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT SPRING 2018 Knightlines Innovation Gets a New Home Thanks to a $2.3 million gift to UB, a once-shuttered building becomes Connecticut’s most dynamic center for entrepreneurs President’s Line University presidents often talk about At UB, however, the power of giving how their schools are distinct from other is truly transformative. As you’ll read in institutions of higher education. At UB, this issue, the Bauers’ gift will not only the examples are obvious and plentiful. provide students with expertise they As one of the most diverse universities need to thrive in the world, it also helps in the U.S., our students truly value UB amplify its role as an economic part- other cultures and backgrounds. For ner in Connecticut. But gifts of all sizes the sixth consecutive year, U.S. News make a huge impact. & World Report just ranked our online Consider the case of Corey Mayberry programs among the best in the nation. ’17, featured in the following pages. Just What sets our distance-learning courses over a year ago, a car accident nearly apart is that UB was the first university destroyed his chances of finishing his in Connecticut to offer online programs last semester at UB. He was almost done. 20 years ago. Our ability to anticipate to- Nonetheless, too injured to work, school morrow is reflected elsewhere in the cur- seemed like an impossibility. Thanks to riculum and in our abundant resources support from the Roy and Aline Fried- that prepare UB students to thrive in an man Scholarship Fund, Mayberry com- ever-changing workplace. The evolution pleted his degree and now works as an of our support for entrepreneurs is just engineer at Lockheed Martin. The gift of one vivid example of this. Eight years a semester’s tuition is making a positive ago, UB became home to the first uni- and transformative impact on Corey’s versity-based business incubator in Fair- entire family. field County (since then, other schools Longtime donors come to realize the have followed suit). Now, as I write this, power of their gifts. Often, it’s because we are poised to open the doors to Bau- they, too, relied on someone else to lend er Hall, a singularly comprehensive stag- them a hand. Each student, like each uni- ing ground for UB student-entrepreneurs versity, is unique, but none of us can do and for start-ups and inventors through- it alone. Alumni Howard ’59 and Maxine out Connecticut. This exciting resource Abner ’62, steadfast supporters of UB would not be possible without generous for years, understand this. Their most support from George and Carol Bauer. recent gift to expand training facilities at The impact of philanthropy is one key Hubbell Gym enables our student-ath- to academic success. America’s universi- letes to train better together. It’s a fitting ties—from private, non-sectarian schools reminder to us all that future success like UB to large state institutions, tiny seems brighter when we work collective- liberal arts colleges and technical power- ly toward a common goal. houses—and their students face myriad financial pressures. We all need support. Neil Albert Salonen President UB KNIGHTLINES SPRING 2018 Knightlines President’s Line A PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT Contents SPRING 2018 President Features Neil Albert Salonen 4 Innovation Gets a New Home Founding Editor Leslie Geary The University begins work on a new center for student-entrepreneurs and Connecticut Contributing Editor businesses, thanks to a $2.3 million gift from Rebecca Salonen philanthropists George and Carol Bauer. Production Director Larry Orman 6 Color Fields Staff Photographer Artist Kat Evans’s bold paintings are Kazuhiro Shoji impossible to ignore. How the graphic design alumna learned to intuitively dive Please send address changes and Letters to the Editor to: Knightlines, Cortright Hall, 219 Park into color, and bring viewers along the way. Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604 or by e-mail to [email protected]. Please include your full name, UB class year 10 Why Not? (if applicable), and contact information. When chemistry chairperson Amanda For additional assistance, call Petrus wanted to find a way to deliver (203) 576-4625. 4 drugs into the brain, she began wondering Knightlines is published three times about all those velvet ropes at night clubs. a year for University of Bridgeport alumni and friends by the Office of University Relations. 14 Ripple Effect A car accident nearly destroyed Corey Mayberry’s college career and upended his family’s future. Then he won a Roy and Aline Friedman Excellence in Engineering Scholarship. 6 Departments 2 Mailbag 18 News Lines 28 In Print 30 Faculty Lines 32 Focus On: Vincencia Adusei ’02, ’05 34 Class Notes 36 Alumni News 10 42 Side Lines 1 Editor’s Note We may want to organize our lives into smooth efficiency, but often it’s the unexpected that imbues quotidian routines with breathtaking pizazz. That’s the beauty of sharing stories from UB; I never know what will happen. A meeting with chemistry chairperson Dr. Amanda Petrus, about researching potential cures for Alzheimer’s and other diseases, was humming along nicely. Then suddenly, Petrus compared her most challenging work—delivering drugs into the brain itself—to getting into an exclusive night club. Unexpected fabulousness! Or take Philip Maymin, an associate researcher at the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business. He’s been wondering if there might be a relationship between popular music and the stock market (to find out, go to “Faculty Lines” on page 30). Alumna Kat Evans’s paintings are based on color theory and unexpected color combinations “discovered” in the moment as she works. Unexpected may be shorthand for creative inspiration, but channeling it takes discipline and support. That’s why a university like UB is so important. It provides training, materials, and expert faculty who help cultivate aha! ideas into sustainable, transforma- tive inventions, resources, and programs. That was clearly evident when UB celebrated the soon-to-be reopened Bauer Hall. Before being used as a former residence hall, the building was the home of industrialist William Grippin. Now, thanks to a generous $2.3 million donation from George and Carol Bauer, the historic build- ing is being transformed into an innovation center. Here again, Bauer Hall will house an unexpected (and wholly needed) mix of minds and machines: from legal advisers, marketing pros, and entrepreneurs-in-residence to 3D printers and “brainstorming rooms.” Best, its doors will be open to UB students and Connecti- cut start-ups. That’s a cross-pollination of talent and tools that’s sure to yield plenty of new success stories. I can’t wait to find out what they are and report back to you in future issues. In the meantime, feel free to visit during one of our many fun alumni gatherings and see all the things happening on campus. Can’t make a planned event? Stop by and surprise us with an un- expected visit. We’ll be delighted to see you! Leslie Geary Founding Editor Mailbag Coffee Time! Religion 101 Musings Dear Editor, Dear Editor, Dear Editor, I get Knightlines in the mail, and I usu- I have just finished reading “Religion As a Yale alumnus, I don’t remember ally end up saving it and then flipping 101” in the current issue of Knight- how I got onto the Knightlines mail- through it months later. My husband lines (Summer/Fall 2017). It’s certainly ing list, but feel lucky because I have is from Costa Rica so your story “Har- noteworthy that UB actually has an read every issue with great interest vesting the Future” (Summer/Fall 2017) on-campus mosque which can sepa- and enjoyment for many years. looked interesting. I read it and actually rately accommodate adherents of Islam. Every issue has presented interesting, saved the article because I wanted to This begs the question: can I safely well-written articles about people and know what ended up happening. Did assume that UB offers equal on-cam- doings on and off campus, but I think the [the community of] Biolley got the cof- pus worship facilities to a variety of latest issue (Summer/Fall 2017) is the fee roaster? Are they using a website? adherents of other faiths as well in best yet. It said that people from UB would return this age of both enhanced diversity Congratulations on producing a consis- in the fall of 2017, so I was wondering if and equality? For example, are there tently high-quality publication and you were going to do a follow-up story? also separate on-campus worship successfully presenting the highly It was a great article and great pictures. facilities for, say, Buddhists, Catholics, positive image of UB. Hindus, various Protestants, Taoists, Lincoln W. Craighead Gabriella Marinaccio ’10 etc.? If so, this is encouraging for all. Fairfield, Connecticut Norwalk, CT David H. Tocher ’65 Ed. Note: Yes, the coffee project continues Marlton, New Jersey in Biolley, Costa Rica! Grindmaster Corpo- Ed. Note: An interfaith chapel is located at ration heard about our students’ work with Carstensen Hall and is available to members the coffee farmers and generously donated of all faiths at UB. an industrial roaster. Professor Tim Raynor and his business students have returned to Costa Rica three times since the original reporting for the article. Their next trip to Biolley is in March 2018. A website to sell the coffee is being tested. Stay tuned! Have an Opinion? Send letters to the editor to [email protected] or to Knightlines, Cortright Hall, University of Bridgeport, 219 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604 Please be sure to include your full name, contact information, and UB class year if applicable.
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