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Hen Hatch results: Finalists pitch startup ideas, receive monetary awards
Final presentations by both tracks of the Hen Hatch startup funding competition were held at the annual President’s Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Lerner student honors: Academic achievements to be awarded May 4
The Lerner College is pleased to celebrate the academic excellence of its undergraduate students. Award ceremonies by department will be held on Friday, May 4 in recognition of these achievements.
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Finance competition: Cab Calloway first, Smyrna second in Delaware Personal Finance Challenge
UD hosted the Delaware Personal Finance Challenge, with competition featuring high school students from throughout the state.
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Walk MS to include UD campus, Lerner student
Rain or shine, the Delaware Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society along with the Newark and University of Delaware communities will hold its “2012 Walk MS: University of Delaware” event at UD’s Newark campus Sunday, May 6.
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Economic education
Teachers refine methods through CEEE program: Twenty-four educators representing 11 states marked the completion of their first summer on campus Friday, Aug. 5, with teacher workshop presentations designed to uniquely model how the teaching of economics can be effectively taught in the classroom.
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EntrePrep students go live
Business as usual was not the case for downtown Newark last Saturday. Instead, 23 students from high schools across northern Delaware and their Business-for-a-Day greeted visitors among the mainstays of Main Street. The culmination of a six-day residential program, the event held Aug. 6 put to good use the newly honed entrepreneurial skills the students developed at the EntrePrep Summer Institute, a program that provides project-based, hands-on entrepreneurial experiences with a foundation in economic education.
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Vita Nova wins Best of Delaware
Delaware Today magazine’s Best of Delaware 2011 recently awarded Vita Nova, the student-operated restaurant located in the University of Delaware’s Trabant Student Center, best in service, marking the second year in a row the restaurant has been recognized for service and the third time the restaurant has been recognized by the publication.
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Medical tourism gaining ground
Hospitals and luxury are two words that just don’t seem to go together. Or do they? In a recent trend where medical recovery meets the comfort of a luxury hotel, the idea of "hotels bridging health care," or H2H, is gaining ground.
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Lerner profs help solve Social Security retirement puzzle
Can’t wait to claim your Social Security retirement benefits? Think you’ll get the most by claiming your benefits as soon as possible, at age 62? Think again, advises Jeffrey Miller, partner at Social Security Choices, a firm dedicated to helping individuals understand how to maximize their Social Security benefits.
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Cagehero founder is Lerner alum
“The hero comes from within.” This was the takeaway message for students in an economics of entrepreneurship class from University of Delaware alumnus Mark Mastrandrea before their semester came to an end.
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Bright Ideas: Meaningful Economics & Entrepreneurship Competition
Does the lighting in your home or office affect your mood? Are you tired of the regular soft white glow of the everyday light bulb? Then give “Bottle Bright” a try! Not available in stores (yet), this “cool, recycled cover to cover over your light bulb” that promises to create “cool bright colors in your room” was the brainchild of a team of third and fourth grade students participating in Delaware’s annual Meaningful Economics and Entrepreneurship (ME*) Competition.
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Lerner College announces new dean
Bruce W. Weber, an authority on information technology management and a top administrator at London Business School, has been named dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, effective Sept. 1.
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Business success: Lerner College earns maintenance of accreditation by AACSB
The Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware is among 68 schools around the world that have successfully maintained their accreditation in business this year, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) announced April 6.
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On the case - Carol A. Ammon MBA Case Competition winners announced by Lerner College
After weeks of preparation, a demanding morning of preliminary round presentations and afternoon presentations involving final analysis by top industry leaders, Brett Weber, Jialu Liu, Adrian Farrar and Navid Khabazian of Team NBAC emerged victorious as this year's winners of the Carol A. Ammon MBA Case Competition.
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Rivlin says bipartisan budget action, stronger budget rules key to reversing debt
If the United States is to overcome its growing national debt and achieve fiscal responsibility, budget action must be bipartisan and new rules must be enforceable, says Alice Rivlin, senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. 
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