The Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the recipients of the FY 2010 Kauffman Innovation Grants. Made possible by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Innovation Grants provide support for UMBC departments and programs, faculty, and instructional staff introducing entrepreneurial and innovative thinking and skills into the curriculum.
Department and Program Innovation Grants
The Imaging Research Center and the departments of English and Theater were given a $12,000 grant to contribute collectively to a production of Shakespeare’s Pericles, to be performed on campus in spring 2010. Students will learn entrepreneurial skills through active involvement in the pre-production scholarly work, the staging, and the post-production work of creating a DVD of the show and distributing the product. The three departments plan to collaborate on other Shakespearean plays in the future. The grant will also support the development of a series of educational materials to bolster Shakespeare studies worldwide.
PI: Michele Osherow, Co-PIs: Alan Kreizenbeck, Lee Boot
The Office of Student Life received a $6,000 grant to provide seed money for student social entrepreneurship projects planned during the fall 2009 Civic Imagination and Social Entrepreneurship course and to support the UMBC Social Entrepreneurship Collaborative. PI: David Hoffman, Co-PIs: Delana Gregg, Devin Hagerty, Roy Meyers, Michele Wolff, Lee Calizo
Faculty Innovation Grants
$6,000 Reza Mohammadpourrad, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, to develop a graduate course for electrical and computer engineering students on designing systems for reconfigurable chips. The funds will also support a fellowship to help student groups implement their ideas on reconfigurable chips. Students will be mentored to develop a business plan for their projects and encouraged to seek external investors. Co-PI: Chintan Patel
$5,000 to Fow-Sen Choa, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, to create an interdisciplinary learning environment for students in chemical sensing and engineering and provide emphasis in several graduate and undergraduate courses in CSEE and Biochemistry on business plan development, grant writing, etc, for the creation of start-up companies. Co-PI: Brian Cullum
