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Southern, Eastern Faculty and Student Featured in Latest Episode of CPTV Workforce Series

Divya Krishna

This Thursday, interviews with Southern and Eastern faculty will be televised as part of Connecticut Public Broadcasting’s work. learn. live. (connecticut) series. The segment’s topic is “Workforce and Innovation”. Dr. Christine Broadbridge, along with Research Fellows Divya Krishna, Leah Mirabelle and Monica Sawicki will discuss how student work in science and nanotechnology helps to bridge the divide between what the workforce needs and what the workforce is.

Dr. Franklin Brown and his student Teresa Chmielowiec will talk about Eastern’s neuroscience program partnership with Yale University, and how biotechnological, pharmaceutical and chemical companies are avidly looking for neuroscience grads.

The segment aired on CPTV on Thursday, August 30 at 10 pm.

Western Graduate Featured in Third Episode of CPTV Workforce Series

Kusiela

The third episode of work. learn. live. (connecticut) will examine the workforce readiness of the health care industry in Connecticut.

By 2010, Connecticut will need an additional 6,180 nurses for new positions and to fill retirement vacancies. To help ease this shortage, Western, Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) and UConn have an innovative agreement that streamlines the way nursing students who graduate with their associate's degree can transfer to Western to earn their bachelor’s then advance to UConn to earn their master’s.

This agreement, called the Nursing Pathways Collaborative, is endorsed by Waterbury-area hospitals and healthcare providers.As the RN-to BSN bachelor’s completion program is located in Waterbury, many of the students are local residents who in turn stay in the area after graduating.

The episode will feature Ellen Durnin, PhD, dean of graduate studies and external programs at Western. Dr. Durnin was a leader in the development of the Nursing Pathways Collaborative and has been a vital part of the articulation’s success. The episode will also include Western graduate Jennifer Kusaila, RN, a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital. At Western, Jennifer was a class representative and the Greater Waterbury Nursing Consortium "Nurses Lead the Way" honoree.

This segment will also discuss other shortages the health care industry faces. Viewers will learn what the state of Connecticut, as well as local colleges and universities, are doing to meet the need of this growing field.

To learn more about the CPTV series, click here.
To learn about other CSUS graduates featured in the work. learn. live (Connecticut) program, click here.

Central Graduate Featured on CPTV Workforce Premiere

Heriberto "Eddie" Rodriguez, who graduated Central Connecticut State University with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, is featured in the premiere of the Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) documentary series "work. learn live. (connecticut)."

This new 12-part monthly television series will examine the realities of the employment landscape in Connecticut, and the challenges and opportunitites facing the state if we are to sustain a thriving economy.

Rodriguez, now a manufacturing engineer for Pratt & Whitney, a jet engine manufacturer, was raised in Hartford from the time he was eight years old by a hard working mother of three boys, Sonia Torres. He graduated from Hartford Public High School in 2000.

Rodriguez then attended Central Connecticut State University from which he attained a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Interested in becoming an operations manager at his company, Heriberto enrolled in the Hartford branch of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to obtain his Masters Degree in Management. He will be graduating from RPI with a Masters Degree in Operations Management in May of this year.

In the program, he is among a number of young adults from differing parts of the state and with differing backgrounds, who share their experiences on the road to becoming model employees and students. We can learn much from these young people, each taking their own path to achieving the American dream, making it a reality.

The program will air at the following times:
Thursday, April 26, 10 p.m.
Saturday, April 28 at 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 29 at 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 1 at 11 p.m.

To learn more about the CPTV series, click here.
To see the CSUS television announcement, click to the CSUtube page.

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