Anderson in the Courant, Harrison in USA Today, Lisi in West Hartford News and More

A videographer from WFSB-TV Channel 3 and a photographer from the Hartford Courant came to the University to get images from “Helicopter Experience 2010,” a weeklong workshop being run by the NASA Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium, which is based at the University of Hartford. The 25 college and high school students were in the Wind Tunnel lab (located in the lower level of UTC Hall) to test the aerodynamics of the remote-control vehicles they are designing and building as part of the workshop. The video is scheduled to be on WFSB-TV Eyewitness News between 5 and 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 4, and a photo appeared in the "CT Now" section of the Hartford Courant on Thursday, Aug. 5. A story also appeared in the Aug. 5 issue of the New Britain Herald that can be read here.

A new program by Follett Higher Education Group, the book story company at the University of Hartford, will allow students to rent their textbooks, noted a story in the Hartford Courant on Monday, Aug. 2. The article featured interviews with Michael Riggins, manager of the University of Hartford book store, and Ryan Koprek, who will be a sophomore at the University of Hartford this fall. “Renting is cheaper upfront — I think that will appeal to a lot of students,” Koprek told the Courant. To see the full story, click here.

Christopher Anderson, an assistant professor of politics and government in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an article for the “Opinion” section of the Hartford Courant on Sunday, Aug. 1 about how free speech was under attack in Kuwait following the recent jailing of a former University of Hartford student who publicly accused the Kuwaiti government of corruption. “As the legal persecution of [Khaled] Alfadala and other government critics makes clear, 20 years [after the first Gulf War to liberate Kuwait], the project of Kuwaiti freedom and justice remains scandalously incomplete,” Anderson wrote. To read the article, click here.

University President Walter Harrison, who heads the NCAA committee that developed the Academic Progress Rate (APR) which measures how students in a college’s or university’s sports program are progressing towards graduation, was quoted in a USA Today article on Aug. 4 that noted that the NCAA is launching an online database that will allow recruits, parents and others to see what the APR is for a coach and his team. Harrison told the reporter he wasn’t sure how much impact this information would have on a recruit’s decision. To read the full story, click here.

Peter Lisi, director of institutional partnerships and sponsored research at the University, has been appointed by Governor M. Jodi Rell to the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA). The appointment was noted on MyWestHartfordLife.com and in the West Hartford News. Click here to read the West Hartford Life story.