New Course in the Fall

Jeff Rummel will be teaching OPIM 4895, Spreadsheet Modeling for Business Decision Making. If there are a few students interested in honorizing the course, he would be willing to do a group conversion. You can find more information about the class at his blog, or you can contact him.

edgelab article

edgelab was profiled in the Stamford paper over the weekend, and this is a great opportunity for honors students to get some great experience. Projects run during the semester (so you would need to spend that semester in Stamford), but also in the summer. If you are interested, please contact Jim Marsden.

Study Abroad Fair on Monday, February 4

If you are considering study abroad for either the summer or fall of this year, make sure you remember that the study abroad fair is on Monday, February 4th in Rome Ballroom, starting at 4pm. You can also get information at the Study Abroad Office (in the CUE building) or from the Undergraduate Programs Office in the School of Business, but the fair is a great place to learn about many different programs. The School of Business will have a separate table for programs that are of special interest to business majors.

Some other news:

• The summer business program in Florence is again receiving plenty of applications. To try to accommodate as many people as possible, there will be the OPIM 293 class (manufacturing and operations in Italy) like last year, but there will also be a class taught by someone from Palazzo Rucellai on Italian Family Businesses. This way we will be able to take twice as many business students as last year.
  
  
• There is also a summer program in Maastricht, The Netherlands. It will be taught by Pete Peterson and will focus on relationship marketing in the European Union.
  
  
• There is also a program in Social Entrepreneurship in Guatemala that will deal with microfinance and microconsignment methods for developing businesses in Central America.
  
  
• There are other summer opportunities (not led by UConn faculty) in other places as well, including programs in Copenhagen and Dublin.
  
  
• Programs for the fall semester of 2008 will also be highlighted at the business table on Monday, and there are programs for sophomores, juniors and seniors. Stop by and ask questions and learn what is available.

A study abroad experience is a great way to prepare for your career in a global economy, so please consider coming to the Study Abroad Fair on February 4th.