THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SINCE 1896 • VOLUME CXXVIII, NO. 2 • dailycampus.com Monday, August 30, 2021 New production facility opens for Fine Arts students by Samuel Katz said Grace Merritt in a 2019 UConn CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT Foundation article regarding the [email protected] groundbreaking of the facility. The Katter Theater features a UConn Today revealed the new- three-sided stage opposed to the ly constructed Fine Arts Theatre single-sided stage in Jorgensen. Production Facility, built alongside Katter sold multiple properties to renovations to the School of Fine provide for his donation. Arts at the University of Connecti- “Through a gift of appreciated cut campus at Storrs, stock and a bequest in a video released The video ... shows totaling $650,000, on Aug. 23. shop rooms for costume Nafe is making it pos- The video, avail- sible for the School able on YouTube, design, lighting and of Fine Arts to buy shows shop rooms scenery construction. equipment and fur- for costume design, niture for a new pro- lighting and scenery According to duction facility now construction. Ac- floorplans of the under construction,” cording to fl oorplans facility, it will also Merrit wrote, citing of the facility, it will the lack of space for also include separate include separate rooms scenery and prop rooms for painting, for painting, welding construction in the welding and prop and prop storage. Jorgensen theater. storage. Students involved Nafe Katter, a for- in theater, especially mer director of UConn’s acting pro- those who received scholarships gram who taught at the school from from the late Katter, were excited 1957 to 1997, provided a key dona- for the new building’s completion. tion for the production facility as “Without the scholarship I would well as the the Nafe Katter Theater, not be able to pay for college, for In this still from video, people utilize the resources at the Fine Arts Theatre Production Facility. The which was completed in 2004. sure," Pearl Mason, a 2019 UConn new facility was featured in a promotional video released by UConn Today. “Though he was retired, Nafe graduate, said in her interview with Katter gave $1 million to UConn's Merritt. "I'm very, very fortunate to PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF UCONN TODAY acting program 15 years ago to be in my senior year because we are build a new theater on campus,” on one income.’” Connecticut universities Asian shares mostly higher after US join nationwide sustainable Federal Reserve signals on low rates industry program made clear a slowing of the Fed's bond purchases doesn't mean a rise by Conner Caridad lieve that it will bring signifi cant in short-term rates is imminent. CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT benefi ts to the state’s environment That would require the job market [email protected] and economic development eff orts and infl ation to hurdle “substan- through its service to the large num- tially more stringent” tests. This month, the University of ber of small and medium manufac- “We have much ground to cover Connecticut joined the U.S. Depart- turers in the area.” to reach maximum employment," ment of Energy’s university-based According to the DOE, a single Powell said. Industrial Assessment Centers pro- university-based consultation will Stocks of U.S. companies whose gram to help train manufacturers typically identify more than $130,00 profi ts are most closely tied to the in sustainable business practices, in potential annual savings oppor- economy made the biggest gains according to an article from UConn tunities for manufacturers without following the speech. Today. costing them anything. One problem Powell noted was In July, the Department of Ener- Secretary Granholm explained, the delta variant of the coronavi- gy (DOE) committed $60 million in “America’s best and brightest uni- rus, which remains a global con- funding to the Industrial Assess- versity students are successfully cern. The delta variant is behind ment Centers (IACs) program. It’s helping local manufacturers reduce the recent surge in COVID-19 in- the largest university-based cohort pollution, save energy and cut their fections in Asia, where the vaccine the program has ever seen, with 32 electricity bills.” rollout has been slower than parts universities across 28 states, accord- By joining the University of New of the U.S. and Europe. ing to the Department of Energy. Haven, the new IAC will be able to “With the spread of the delta The Industrial Assessment Cen- reach more manufacturers in the variant still rife and the vaccina- ters work to “train the next gener- area who have almost been neglect- tion drive slow, Singapore being ation of energy-effi ciency workers” ed in the past. According to UConn People wearing face masks walk past a bank’s electronic board the exception, the path out of the by helping small and medium-sized Today, there are more than 1,000 showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 30, pandemic is unpredictable, fraught manufacturers across the country manufacturers in the state that are 2021. Asian shares were mostly higher Monday. with setbacks and periodic lock reduce their carbon emissions and eligible for free IAC consultations PHOTOGRAPH BY KIN CHEUNG/AP downs,” said Venkateswaran La- lower energy costs. yet only 37 have been conducted in vanya at Mizuho Bank in Singa- “DOE’s university-based Indus- the past decade. pore. trial Assessment Centers are as- Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares on Wall Street, when the S&P 500 The delta variant has already sisting small and medium-sized also expressed his excitement to see were mostly higher Monday, as rose 39.37, or 0.9%, to 4,509.37 to slowed some economic activi- businesses – particularly those in UConn join the DOE’s initiative. investors interpreted comments top its prior all-time high set on ty. In the U.S.. a report on Friday disadvantaged and underrepresent- “UConn’s work as one of the U.S. from the head of the U.S. Federal Wednesday. The Dow Jones In- showed that consumer spending in ed communities – in the transition Department of Energy’s Industrial Reserve as signaling low interest dustrial Average climbed 242.68 the country rose 0.3% in July from to a clean energy economy, building Assessment Centers will help local rates were here to stay for some points, or 0.7%, to 34,455.80, and June, a sharp slowdown from the the next-generation energy work- manufacturers cut emissions and time. the Nasdaq composite gained prior month’s 1.1% jump. That’s a force, and propelling America to- energy costs while training the fu- Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 183.69, or 1.2%, to 15,129.50. big deal when consumer spend- ward a carbon-free future by 2050,” ture generation of engineers, and edged up 0.2% in morning trading The speech by Fed Chair Jerome ing is the driving force of the U.S. said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jenni- I’m glad to see Connecticut as part to 27,686.18. Australia's S&P/ASX Powell was key, as U.S. stocks have economy, and its growth slowed fer M. Granholm. of this major investment in clean en- 200 rose nearly 0.1% to 7,494.10. set record after record this year, in even though income growth for The IAC in Connecticut will be ergy,” Murphy said. South Korea's Kospi was virtu- large part because of the Fed's mas- Americans accelerated to 1.1% last led by UConn Associate Professor Zhang and his team will also tap ally unchanged at 3,133.72. Hong sive eff orts to prop up the economy month. of Engineering Dr. Liang Zhang. expertise from the universities’ long Kong's Hang Seng declined 0.3% to and fi nancial markets. The gains In energy trading, benchmark Nine other faculty members from standing relationships with the 25,344.79, while the Shanghai Com- had been getting increasingly ten- U.S. crude lost 10 cents to $68.64 UConn and the University of New Connecticut Department of Energy posite stood at 3,535.19, up 0.4%. tative as markets began to look a barrel. Brent crude, the interna- Haven will join Zhang in conduct- and Environmental Protection and Regional investors are also look- toward a possible end of the Fed’s tional standard, added 10 cents to ing free environmental consulta- utility companies, such as United ing ahead to data expected to be assistance. $72.80 a barrel. tions at manufacturing sites across Illuminating Company and Ever- released Tuesday on China's man- Last week, Powell noted past In currency trading, the U.S. dol- the state. source Energy, which have pledged ufacturing sector. mistakes where policy makers lar inched down to 109.74 Japanese “This is long overdue for Con- $600,000 over fi ve years toward the The rally in Asia paralleled the made premature moves in the face yen from 109.84 yen. The euro cost necticut,” Zhang said. “And we be- program’s energy audit service. rise that ended the previous week of seemingly high infl ation. He $1.1806, down from $1.1792. 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