Rudd Center for Food Policy Moves to UConn

[Bill Sussman]

... taken from Yale

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/09/rudd-center-for-food-policy-and-obesity-moves-to-uconn/

Somehow, we have reached a point in college football/sports where this is relevant enough to post on a sports message board.

 

[Kolumbo]

The first sentence contains "flagship" and "research." Flagship, Research, Repeat.

 

[CL82]

... taken from Yale

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/09/rudd-center-for-food-policy-and-obesity-moves-to-uconn/

Somehow, we have reached a point in college football/sports where this is relevant enough to post on a sports message board.

Well there goes another AAU vote.

 

[pj]

Well there goes another AAU vote.

I don't think Yale cares about a 4-person non-profit. If Yale had been willing to fund them, they'd still be at Yale.

The way this works is that Yale and Harvard extend their name & brand to faculty and institutions and take money in exchange via "indirect cost" surcharges on their funding. Rudd got prestige by affiliating with Yale but it cost them. They may have been struggling to maintain funding -- probably were -- and so they could have lost everything. UConn came along and offered them a better deal. They took it.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

You had me at nationally recognized, research and external funding. Another line on the resume.

 

[Vowelguy]

Does it include Paul Rudd?

 

[Sea Goat]

This is good news. It looks like it happened because Yale didn't have all the necessary academic disciplines to support the Rudd Center. Obviously, Yale can be whatever it wants to be, but it didn't want to expand academic disciplines in certain core areas. Interesting, Yale was the first land-grant university in CT (1863) and the first ag school. It ceded its land-grant university status to UConn in 1893.

 

[CL82]

I don't think Yale cares about a 4-person non-profit. If Yale had been willing to fund them, they'd still be at Yale.

The way this works is that Yale and Harvard extend their name & brand to faculty and institutions and take money in exchange via "indirect cost" surcharges on their funding. Rudd got prestige by affiliating with Yale but it cost them. They may have been struggling to maintain funding -- probably were -- and so they could have lost everything. UConn came along and offered them a better deal. They took it.

Interesting. My comment was tongue-in-cheek but I didn't know how these associations worked.

 

[Fishy]

If we can cure obesity, we're as good as in the Big Ten or ACC.

If we can cure that, and find a way to shorten the lines at DisneyWorld, we're in the SEC, boys!