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
Seeing Green: iQ’s First-Place Finisher Innovates Lawn Care, Wins $15k
A lush green lawn may be the envy of every suburban neighborhood, but many homeowners find it too expensive to hire a lawn service, and too difficult to maintain it properly on their own.Continue Reading
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 Alum Nadav Ullman Co-Creates ‘COVID-19 Clearinghouse’ to get PPE to Health Care Workers
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.