Lockwood-Mathews receives grant
Norwalk-based Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum”™s education program was awarded a $7,000 grant from the Fairfield County Community Foundation. The museum is using the donation to serve a larger number of students with its teaching program, which consists of docents dressing in period costumes and visiting classrooms to introduce the students to the mansion and its history.
Stamford”™s Dollars for Scholars ups 2015 scholarships
Stamford Dollars for Scholars announced enhancements to its 2015 scholarship program, including four new awards. A total of 25 scholarships, representing a 20 percent increase from last year, will be awarded to class of ”™15 graduates. In addition, the organization will increase the value of its renewable scholarships by 25 percent by offering a four-year renewable scholarship providing up to $10,000 in support and two-year renewable scholarships offering up to $2,500.
The 2015 online application opened in January and is available through April 11.
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering elects 23 new members
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering announced the election of 23 experts in science, engineering and technology to membership in the academy. The newly elected members will be introduced at the academy”™s 40th annual meeting and dinner May 19 at the Crowne Plaza Cromwell Hotel in Cromwell.
The 23 newly elected members are: Andrzej Banaszuk, Thomas C. Berl, Kathleen M. Carroll, Craig M. Crews, Ralph J. Dileone, Tahany I. El-Wardany, Peter M. Glazer, Alessandro Gomez, Ronald S. Harichandran, John F. Kadow, Linda S. Pescatello, James F. Rusling, Jayant S. Sabnis, Gerard Sanacora, Alanna Schepartz, MartÃn J. Sepúlveda, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Steven M. Southwick, Mark (Mohammad) Tehranipoor, Vasilis Vasiliou and Julie B. Zimmerman.
NGKF hires Cottle
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, an international real estate firm with offices in Greenwich and White Plains, hired Michael Cottle as executive vice president and manager of the Fairfield County and Westchester County, N.Y., offices. Cottle brings more than 25 years of institutional and asset management experience to the job.
Cottle previously served as senior vice president of asset management for a private investment firm that developed and owned office, retail and hotel properties. He holds a bachelor”™s in mathematical economics from Colgate University.
AmeriCares welcomes Peterson
Stamford-based AmeriCares, an emergency response and global health organization, appointed Dr. E. Anne Peterson as senior vice president of global programs. Peterson”™s responsibilities include overseeing AmeriCares”™ health programs and directing the AmeriCares emergency response team.
Peterson has decades of experience in domestic and international health policies, clinical care, administration and disaster response. Most recently, she served as public health program director for the Ponce School of Medicine & Health Services in Puerto Rico and as a research professor at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
She holds a bachelor”™s in biological sciences from the University of Washington, a master”™s in public heath and preventive medicine residency from Emory University in Atlanta and a medical degree from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn.
Hodgson joins law firm
Berchem, Moses & Devlin PC, a law firm with offices in Milford, Norwalk and Westport, appointed Christopher M. Hodgson as a senior partner in the firm”™s labor and employment practice group. Prior to joining, Hodgsin served as a director for Bridgeport-based law firm, Durant, Nichols, Houston, Hodgson & Cortese-Costa PC. He is a graduate of Choate-Rosemary Hall, the University of Vermont and the University of Richmond School of Law.
United Way of Western Connecticut mails its 100,000th book
United Way of Western Connecticut (UWWC) in Stamford delivered its 100,000th imagination library book to a Danbury child this month. This early literacy program provides a new book per month to each enrolled child from birth to age five at no cost to families, eliminating the financial barrier of book ownership that low-income families often face.
UWWC brought imagination library to the state of Connecticut in 2008. Since then, the program has grown to nine additional communities with an overall enrollment of more than 8,600 children and 190,000 total books.
To enroll or sponsor a child, visit uwwesternct.org/ImaginationLibrary.
Newfield joins Murtha Cullina LLP
Murtha Cullina LLP law firm, with a office in Stamford, appointed Lisa Newfield as a partner. Newfield is working out of the firm”™s New Haven office in addition to seeing clients in Stamford and White Plains, N.Y. She is joining the firm”™s trusts and estates department. She holds a bachelor”™s from The George Washington University and a J.D. from University of Michigan.
Webster Bank exec honored by Middlesex United Way
William Wrang III, executive vice president, commercial real estate at Waterbury-based Webster Bank, received the Tocqueville Society philanthropy award from the Middlesex County United Way. The award honors someone who has played a significant role in inspiring philanthropic giving. Wrang also has been named “Distinguished Citizen of the Year” by the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce.
Fairfield University graduate receives recognition
Fairfield University graduate Angela Moore published a solution to Beal”™s Conjecture: a problem with a $1 million reward that has perplexed mathematicians for decades. Moore”™s solution, titled “Beal”™s Conjecture vs. ”˜Positive Zero,”™ Fight,” was originally published in “Math Goodies” in 2013 and republished in “mathNEWS” in 2014. She has since extended her solution and is set to present her paper this April in the CMC3 Recreational Math Conference in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Day celebrates 20 years with New Reach Inc.
New Haven-based New Reach Inc., an organization helping people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness regionally, including in Bridgeport, celebrated the 20th anniversary of CEO Kellyann Day”™s service with the agency. Day began her career at New Reach as program coordinator for the supportive housing program and has served as CEO for the past 18 years. She holds a master”™s in social work with a concentration in administration from the University of Connecticut.
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