Campus Talk: Innovation Corps training program to help students market their research
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INNOVATION CORPS TRAINING PROGRAM TO HELP STUDENTS MARKET THEIR RESEARCH
The Southwest Node of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) kicks off a two-week workshop to give student researchers in Arkansas an opportunity to bring their innovations to the marketplace. The first workshop is on Friday, May 13 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and concludes with a Friday, May 27, workshop at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Twelve teams — including six from UALR, five from UA Fayetteville, and one from the the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — will participate. Each squad will include one to three graduate research students, a research faculty member, and an industry mentor.
The program is designed to encourage entrepreneurship in the research community, helping participants examine their work from a potential customer’s perspective and exposing them to experts with diverse specialties and experiences. Through the workshop, participants will learn how to test their research for business viability.
Participation in the regional workshop could help students become eligible to apply for inclusion in the seven-week national I-Corps program, which includes a $50,000 team grant.
BILL CLINTON TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOOL
Former President Bill Clinton will deliver the commencement address to the 10th graduation class of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service on Sunday, May 15. Forty-one students will graduate with a Master of Public Service (MPS) degree from the school. Established in 2004, the Clinton School of Public Service was the first graduate school in the nation to offer a Master of Public Service degree. During the past two years in the program, the graduates completed a 40-hour curriculum, including three field service projects: a team-based project in Arkansas, an international public service project, and a final individual project.
MICHAEL MILLER NAMED DEAN OF UA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Michael T. Miller has been named dean of the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions for a two-year term, beginning July 1, 2016.
Miller is a professor in the higher education, adult and lifelong learning and public policy programs at UA. He replaces Tom Smith, who has been dean since 2010 and will return to the faculty in the college’s special education program this summer. Miller has held the position of senior associate dean for academic affairs in the college since 2013. He joined the faculty of the college in 2003 and coordinated the higher education program for six years.
The College of Education and Health Professions offers 19 graduate and 13 undergraduate programs. The college enrolled 4,089 undergraduate students and 1,321 graduate students for the 2015-16 academic year.