AmeriCares sends additional aid to Libya
Stamford-based AmeriCares is delivering $1.5 million worth of medical aid for civilians fleeing Libya as the war-torn country”™s political crisis escalates.
The nonprofit is sending nearly 11,000 pounds of medical aid from its Stamford and Amsterdam warehouses, including pain relievers, antibiotics, surgical supplies, burn-care products, cardiovascular medicines, wound-care supplies and anesthesia medicines. Expected to arrive in Cairo, the supplies will be trucked to the Libyan border and given to medical professionals treating civilians.
AmeriCares first aid delivery, which arrived in Cairo March 3, was an air shipment containing antibiotics, pain relievers, wound-care supplies, chronic-care medicines and basic medical supplies to treat 15,000 patients.
RBS application
RBS Securities in Stamford has launched the RBSMobile application for the Apple iPad.
The app allows institutional clients to access U.S. market information and foreign exchange markets, and download strategy reports.
The application is free to RBS clients and available for download and sale to others through Apple”™s App Store. RBS”™s institutional clients can currently access strategy reports in a variety of asset classes through the RBSMarketplace portal. Clients are able to get market information for U.S. treasuries and FX instruments, and download FICC commentary and strategy reports through the new mobile platform.
Bethel Best Western classed up
After recently earning the Best Western “Plus” designation, Best Western Berkshire Inn in Bethel has been renamed Best Western Plus Danbury-Bethel. The designation is assigned to the brand”™s hotels offering a “superior level of lodging.”
Brookfield-based Sproviero Asset Management Co. acquired the 69-room hotel in spring 2008 and has renovated the guest rooms and added a 1,200-square-foot meeting room.
Fairfield U professor gets research grant
Wook-Sung Yoo, chairman of the Fairfield University software engineering program, has received a $7,500 grant from the Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium. The grant will allow Yoo to work with engineering students to develop a web-based software-review tool.
According to the university, Fairfield County companies General Electric, Sikorsky Aircraft and Pitney Bowes have all expressed interest in the project.
Yoo said through the grant he hopes to enhance the teaching of the undergraduate and graduate software engineering programs at Fairfield.
