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Hey remember when I said please don't do this on the Boneyard and welcomed you to harass me on Twitter instead? Good times.

Meanwhile UConn is still not in the AAU. Case closed.
 
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NYUConn said:
Hey guys, you have an actual reporter who is willing to show up to this corner of the internet and have an actual discussion with you about a topic you're interested in.

Maybe don't alienate him by acting like fools?
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It's like you don't know us at all.
 
NYUConn said:
Hey guys, you have an actual reporter who is willing to show up to this corner of the internet and have an actual discussion with you about a topic you're interested in.

Maybe don't alienate him by acting like fools?
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lolwut
 
FDNY99 said:
Sorry Russ....if you guys are on Twitter..Russ is one of the funniest guys out there! He has a GREAT sense of humor in addition to being EXCELLENT at his job! Keep up the GREAT work covering UConn Russ!!!!
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Russ thinks UConn was as much to blame for holding out on the BC football rematch as BC was.
I won't waste my time following him on Twitter or the moon or anywhere.
 
The Viking said:
Russ thinks UConn was as much to blame for holding out on the BC football rematch as BC was.
I won't waste my time following him on Twitter or the moon or anywhere.
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It's not a crazy position to have... UConn was as much to blame... (maybe more so) we publicly stated we'd never play them anywhere, ever, in anything... meanwhile our women's olympic sports teams scheduled each other almost the next day... Either way the lack of a football game probably had very little to do with all the CR stuff. It was going to happen sooner or later... That being said we were never go to play while DeFilippo was the AD.
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RegisteredUconn said:
If anyone can come up with $99,999,950 (annually) I'm pretty sure I can push us right over the top.
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The Boneyard annual endowment.

Could you imagine if we could get an on-campus building named after this place?
 
NYUConn said:
The Boneyard annual endowment.

Could you imagine if we could get an on-campus building named after this place?
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I think Fishy tried to get a room in Werth center named after the boneyard. The answer was a polite redirection to (what was it 2 heart something, thingies. I forget.)
 
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IMind said:
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It's not a crazy position to have... UConn was as much to blame... (maybe more so) we publicly stated we'd never play them anywhere, ever, in anything... meanwhile our women's olympic sports teams scheduled each other almost the next day... Either way the lack of a football game probably had very little to do with all the CR stuff. It was going to happen sooner or later... That being said we were never go to play while DeFilippo was the AD.
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It is a crazy position to have and for what it's worth, Calhoun said he'd never play BC, it wasn't the university as a whole.
 
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upstater said:
UConn simply need to show it can garner another $100m in research funding annually, and then it is good to go.
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I think one of UConn's major downfalls as an academic institution is its medical school and medical center. As a physician in Hartford county, I can tell you that the institution is fairly non-existent in terms of reputation. It is overshadowed by two private hospitals in downtown Hartford. Moving the medical center to Farmington was a huge mistake. Furthermore, the academic output and reputation in the medical community is just not there. Interestingly, the dental school is one of the best in the nation and they literally sit in the same lecture hall with the medical students for the first two years. Quinnipiac just opened a new medical school several years ago, and it is my worry that this is going to further degrade the reputation of UConn Health. Quinnipiac has already ousted the UConn medical students from St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. There is no quick fix for this, but UConn needs to capitalize on it's Health Center in a way that allows it to become a hub for Hartford County, both clinically and academically. It is just so far from that, to the point where I find it difficult to foresee any change in the near future. They did put a ton of money into a recent expansion of the Health Center facility recently, but most of my colleagues view that as political waste and nothing more. It did not help to change the perception of the hospital within the medical community. I recently heard of a patient that was transferred from UConn Health to St. Francis Hospital because he needed a thoracic surgeon...and UConn did not have one on staff at the time. That is unheard of for an academic medical center. I can't imagine (granted, I'm not an expert by any means on this) UConn getting an invite to join the AAU without a substantial improvement in the Health Center going forward.
 
VPDcurt said:
I think one of UConn's major downfalls as an academic institution is its medical school and medical center. As a physician in Hartford county, I can tell you that the institution is fairly non-existent in terms of reputation. It is overshadowed by two private hospitals in downtown Hartford. Moving the medical center to Farmington was a huge mistake. Furthermore, the academic output and reputation in the medical community is just not there. Interestingly, the dental school is one of the best in the nation and they literally sit in the same lecture hall with the medical students for the first two years. Quinnipiac just opened a new medical school several years ago, and it is my worry that this is going to further degrade the reputation of UConn Health. Quinnipiac has already ousted the UConn medical students from St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. There is no quick fix for this, but UConn needs to capitalize on it's Health Center in a way that allows it to become a hub for Hartford County, both clinically and academically. It is just so far from that, to the point where I find it difficult to foresee any change in the near future. They did put a ton of money into a recent expansion of the Health Center facility recently, but most of my colleagues view that as political waste and nothing more. It did not help to change the perception of the hospital within the medical community. I recently heard of a patient that was transferred from UConn Health to St. Francis Hospital because he needed a thoracic surgeon...and UConn did not have one on staff at the time. That is unheard of for an academic medical center. I can't imagine (granted, I'm not an expert by any means on this) UConn getting an invite to join the AAU without a substantial improvement in the Health Center going forward.
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The quality of the Health Center is not going to impact the AAU ranking one way or another. The AAU is only looking at peer-reviewed research grants, which has little to do with running a hospital. Everything you say can be true but it has little impact on the AAU. For some schools with top academics and top medical schools, running a hospital can be a big drain on the school's finances. It is not for everybody.
 
upstater said:
The quality of the Health Center is not going to impact the AAU ranking one way or another. The AAU is only looking at peer-reviewed research grants, which has little to do with running a hospital. Everything you say can be true but it has little impact on the AAU. For some schools with top academics and top medical schools, running a hospital can be a big drain on the school's finances. It is not for everybody.
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The medical center encompasses the graduate schools and the research labs. The hospital itself is John Dempsey. They are all intimately related under the umbrella of UConn Health. They go hand in hand. Furthermore, clinical and academic medicine (research and training) are inseparable at academic institutions. One cannot flourish without the other. Most academic clinicians are hired under the premise that they will run a lab involving basic science or clinical research. If you don't recruit the high-powered physicians, you are missing out on a ton of research and recognition.
 
VPDcurt said:
The medical center encompasses the graduate schools and the research labs. The hospital itself is John Dempsey. They are all intimately related under the umbrella of UConn Health. They go hand in hand. Furthermore, clinical and academic medicine (research and training) are inseparable at academic institutions. One cannot flourish without the other. Most academic clinicians are hired under the premise that they will run a lab involving basic science or clinical research. If you don't recruit the high-powered physicians, you are missing out on a ton of research and recognition.
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Ahem...

UConn@UConn 7 hours ago
World's leading pediatric endocrinologist & world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Program join @uconnhealth.
World’s Top Researcher on Rare Genetic Liver Disease Coming to UConn Health - UConn Today

>>Leading pediatric endocrinologist and scientist, Dr. David A. Weinstein and his world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Program is moving to Connecticut’s UConn School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in early 2017. Weinstein’s GSD Program, currently based at the University of Florida, is the largest clinical and research program of its kind in the world. Pediatric and adult patients living with the rare, genetic liver disease travel from across the globe for his team’s expert care, a number which totals more than 500 patients from 49 states and 45 countries.

He will serve as professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine and director of the GSD Program, a joint venture of UConn Health and Connecticut Children’s. UConn Health will be home to the GSD program’s research laboratories while the multidisciplinary team will provide comprehensive clinical care at Connecticut Children’s.<<
 
VPDcurt said:
The medical center encompasses the graduate schools and the research labs. The hospital itself is John Dempsey. They are all intimately related under the umbrella of UConn Health. They go hand in hand. Furthermore, clinical and academic medicine (research and training) are inseparable at academic institutions. One cannot flourish without the other. Most academic clinicians are hired under the premise that they will run a lab involving basic science or clinical research. If you don't recruit the high-powered physicians, you are missing out on a ton of research and recognition.
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All I'm saying is that these huge medical centers, which you'll find at Cincy, USF, Alabama-Birmingham, are heavy on training, but the AAU doesn't take it into account. And not only that, you have some medical schools, such as U. Rochester's, that end up eating into the core of the university and having a detrimental impact.
 
huskymedic said:
Ahem...

UConn@UConn 7 hours ago
World's leading pediatric endocrinologist & world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Program join @uconnhealth.

World’s Top Researcher on Rare Genetic Liver Disease Coming to UConn Health - UConn Today

>>Leading pediatric endocrinologist and scientist, Dr. David A. Weinstein and his world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Program is moving to Connecticut’s UConn School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in early 2017. Weinstein’s GSD Program, currently based at the University of Florida, is the largest clinical and research program of its kind in the world. Pediatric and adult patients living with the rare, genetic liver disease travel from across the globe for his team’s expert care, a number which totals more than 500 patients from 49 states and 45 countries.

He will serve as professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine and director of the GSD Program, a joint venture of UConn Health and Connecticut Children’s. UConn Health will be home to the GSD program’s research laboratories while the multidisciplinary team will provide comprehensive clinical care at Connecticut Children’s.<<
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Gainesville is trending down, Storrs is trending up...
 
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huskymedic said:
Ahem...

UConn@UConn 7 hours ago
World's leading pediatric endocrinologist & world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Program join @uconnhealth.
World’s Top Researcher on Rare Genetic Liver Disease Coming to UConn Health - UConn Today

>>Leading pediatric endocrinologist and scientist, Dr. David A. Weinstein and his world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Program is moving to Connecticut’s UConn School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in early 2017. Weinstein’s GSD Program, currently based at the University of Florida, is the largest clinical and research program of its kind in the world. Pediatric and adult patients living with the rare, genetic liver disease travel from across the globe for his team’s expert care, a number which totals more than 500 patients from 49 states and 45 countries.

He will serve as professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine and director of the GSD Program, a joint venture of UConn Health and Connecticut Children’s. UConn Health will be home to the GSD program’s research laboratories while the multidisciplinary team will provide comprehensive clinical care at Connecticut Children’s.<<
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Lol. One pediatric endocrinologist does not resurrect a medical center.
 
VPDcurt said:
Lol. One pediatric endocrinologist does not resurrect a medical center.
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Exactly the comment I expected from you based on recent post history. This one was just timely - there are others but it isn't worth the effort to research. You have your mind made up...
 
VPDcurt said:
Lol. One pediatric endocrinologist does not resurrect a medical center.
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just go away...

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huskymedic said:
Exactly the comment I expected from you based on recent post history. This one was just timely - there are others but it isn't worth the effort to research. You have your mind made up...
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63re in the country for a research school. And there aren't that many med schools on the country. Much worse than UConn's 60 given the paucity of medical schools compared to undergrad universities. Can't deny reality.
 
"63re in the country for a research school. And there aren't that many med schools on the country. Much worse than UConn's 60 given the paucity of medical schools compared to undergrad universities. Can't deny reality."

Yes, can't deny reality, you're a Troll, please leave.
 
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