UConn Today – Three of UConn’s rising seniors – all members of the inaugural cohort of Werth Innovators, student ambassadors for entrepreneurship and innovation through the Peter J. Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – have embraced online work with three very different summer experiences while seeking to develop new skills, learning more about potential career options, and dipping their toes into mainstream popular culture.
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UConn startup Stemify aims to bridge college students’ math skills gap
UConn Innovation Fund Provides Early-Stage Funding to Two Additional Startups
Yahoo! Finance – The University of Connecticut, in partnership with Connecticut Innovations (CI) and Webster Bank, today announced that two more early-stage companies have been awarded early-stage funding from the $2,250,000 UConn Innovation Fund (UIF).
UConn fund awards $200K in seed funding for two startups
UConn Innovation Fund Invests in Two More University Startups
First cohort of 15 startups get set for Vimson Group & New Lab’s Prospect Mining Studio
International Mining – Back in October 2019, leading Indian mining conglomerate, Vimson Group and innovation hub, New Lab, announced a partnership to establish Prospect Mining Studio, a venture studio program bringing together entrepreneurs and industry experts to address the biggest challenges facing the mineral and natural resource mining sector. The focus is on enhancing sustainability and closed-loop production, environmental sensing, worker performance and safety, mineral extraction and energy efficiency, and data optimisation.
UConn Students, Alum Shine As Part of ‘The Ventilator Project’
UConn Today – A pair of UConn students and a recent graduate are part of a Boston-based effort that is trying to bring an emergency ventilator to market as quickly as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Noah Pacik-Nelson ’20 (ENG) now serves as the lead engineer for The Ventilator Project, an all-volunteer organization.
Announcing the 2020 cohort of the CCEI Summer Fellowship Program!
LambdaVision Receives $5 Million Award From NASA for Additional ISS Research
ISS Blog – In December 2018, biotechnology startup LambdaVision launched an investigation to the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory to advance the development of the company’s innovative retinal implant capable of restoring high-resolution vision to patients with retinal degeneration. Now, LambdaVision, along with Implementation Partner Space Tango, has received a NASA award of $5 million to support the continued development of the implant through additional studies onboard the ISS.