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Designing Mobile Clinic with the Community
Connecting universities and disciplines around formal/informal learning opportunity
The Life of the Mind
Using mental health education to give back to myself and my community
Rural Connections
Leveraging I&E ecosystems to strengthen university-community partnerships
Ten of my Favorite Classroom Activities
How a surprise dose of empathy for my students inspired a Faculty Innovation Fellow to reinvent his classes
Breaking the Taboo for a Better You
How Shaw University is prioritizing mental health care and wellness
The Pioneering Spirit
UIF’s journey on executing his dream to make Morgan State University a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship among other HBCUs.
Strangers Are Just Friends Waiting to Happen
How an interdisciplinary workshop changed our campus life
Is an impactful life work life possible?
Create impact through your profession without owning an impact enterprise
Finding a Great Team
A great team can help us shine and tackle problems effectively.
Emancipated Impact for Indonesia
Bridging Indonesia students to government funded opportunities
Re-Futuring Starts From Campus
Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can with whom you can!
Diseña Tu Vida Universitaria
How can we help students design a fulfilling university experience? By Valeria Aguayo, Danae Chipoco Haro and Diego Muñoz—University Innovation Fellows from Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología I’m excited, it is the first week of the semester. I’m going to study a lot, I’m not going to fail any course. I think about the classes […]
How Might Education Change to Prepare for the Future?
Looking towards the future of work, technology should only replace or automate what we don’t need to think about. Human-centric skills cannot be programmed and will continue to grow in importance.
Earning a Degree When you Have Kids
Building student-centered supports for student-parents
Just Breathe
My anxiety and grief management journal By Navya Chelluboyina, University Innovation Fellow from Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology Editor’s note: This article mentions suicide This article was featured in the Perspectives section of the latest edition of the journal, Change Forward, published by the University Innovation Fellows program. Read the journal online here. Working from […]
Discover “Who do you want to grow into?” before thinking “What do you want to be?”
A program to discover, design, and prototype your future dreams by a Faculty Innovation Fellows candidate
#UVUIFamily (Utah Valley University Innovation Family)
by Magann Dykema Spoilers: Pens are designed for right handed people. Chairlifts are magical in team building. I love my #UIFamily. It never ceases to amaze me how much the community of University Innovation Fellows is like a family. Whenever I am in a room full of UIFs, I instantly feel at home. With over […]
UIF Roadtrip April 2015
7 Days. *5 Campuses. 25 Fellows. Saturday, April 18th, 2015 Humera and Katie are hitting the road, traveling through eight states to visit University Innovation Fellows, faculty sponsors and administrative leadership, to experience their spaces of innovation and hear stories of the way in which student engagement is expanding opportunities for peers and creating lasting […]
Apply by May 11th for Fall 2015 Cohort
March 16, 2015 — The National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) has opened the application process for its University Innovation Fellows program for U.S. college and university students. The application deadline is May 11, 2015. Learn more and apply at http://dreamdesigndeliver.org/apply. The University Innovation Fellows program empowers students to become agents of change at their […]
Spaces for Innovation: 12 Suggestions
Google “space for innovation” and several hundred results will show up. The difference between this piece and others is that I compiled it on my flight back to Milwaukee and after visiting some of the most inspiring innovation spaces in Silicon Valley. Without further ado, I would like to present to you, 12 architectural suggestions to make a space for innovation: […]
#uifresh Announcement March 23, 2015
Update on #uifresh here: http://universityinnovationfellows.org/20-colleges-and-universities-launch-innovative-orientation-activities-to-retain-stem-students/ For Immediate Release March 23, 2015 Media contact: Laurie Moore Communications Manager, Epicenter (650) 561-6113 llhmoore@stanford.edu University Innovation Fellows launch #uifresh campaign to attract and retain first-year students to STEM majors March 23, 2015 — Today, the University Innovation Fellows launched a campaign to expose all incoming freshmen at a […]
Empowering The Next Silicon Valley
For many of the fellows, the captain announcing the initial descent into San Francisco/San Jose was enough to get our hearts racing. A few weeks back, we had the opportunity to meet our peer Fellows from all around the country, and visit innovative places such as Google, Stanford d. School, and in our spare time, […]
We Really are Going to Change the World
Alexandra Hamon is a Computer Science major at the University of Oklahoma. Alexandra is a passionate people person who is always excited to learn something new and inspire others to do the same. For her full bio, click here. I graduated from high school with a Senior class of 83 people. […]
Epicenter principal investigator, Sheri Sheppard, named U.S. professor of the year
The University Innovation Fellows program is one of three strategic initiatives of the Epicenter, or National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation. This National Science Foundation funded center aims to change the way undergraduate engineers are prepared for the workforce. And, it couldn’t come at a better time. Today’s complex global challenges require game-changing solutions […]
Fellows Featured On White House Blog – November 7, 2014
In this year’s proclamation of November as National Entrepreneurship Month, President Obama stated: Across our Nation, in laboratories and around kitchen tables, passionate and creative entrepreneurs are developing new sources of clean energy, cures for life-threatening diseases, and inventions that will transform the way we see the world. America has always been a country of […]
$31mm OculusVR Founders’ Gift to UMD Linked to Fellows
Also in this post: Fellows Attend Mid-Atlantic Meetup To Learn and Discuss Strategies To Expand I&E — During the course of last month’s training, we learned there was an even stronger tie-in than we thought between our University Innovation Fellows at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the $31mm gift to the University by […]
Hypothesis Affirmed! Greenville, SC Ignited By Southeastern Regional Meetup
Last week, we tested our hypothesis that we could bring together a group of Fellows with other college students interested in creativity, innovation and design thinking and replicate the energy of our Annual Meetup at Google and Stanford at a place very far from Silicon Valley. We chose Greenville, South Carolina. Why? Because two of […]
58 U.S. Students Named University Innovation Fellows by NSF-Funded Epicenter
For Immediate Release October 2, 2014 58 U.S. Students Named University Innovation Fellows by NSF-Funded Epicenter Palo Alto, CA – Fifty-eight students from 26 higher education institutions across the United States have been named University Innovation Fellows by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). The University Innovation Fellows program empowers students to […]
Fellows Speak at White House
On September 24, 2014, two University Innovation Fellows went to the White House to address 60 leaders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) who attended a half-day Maker Workshop. Two Fellows, Jaime Aribas Starkey-El of Morgan State and Ulysses Knight of Virginia State. Jaime spoke on a panel (see video) about his efforts to […]
