March 3, 2017
UC San Diego Research Affairs –The Office of Innovation and Commercialization launches the first of an eighteen-month entrepreneurial seminar series, free and open to anyone at UC San Diego and the general public, including members of any other research institutions, Mar. 9.
June 7, 2018
Innovation abounds at Triton Entrepreneur Night, showcasing many student companies within The Basement working to address societal issues and disparity. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Three Social Innovators to Watch Student entrepreneurs rise up from The Basement Beneath Mandeville Auditorium, down a stairway once covered in graffiti and…
March 26, 2019
The University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Jacobs School of Engineering, in partnership with the Smart Border Coalition, are hosting a Border Innovation Challenge to address difficulties facing the ports of entry in the San Diego- Tijuana binational region. The aim of the
May 5, 2016
…includes it all, giving entrepreneurs—like Menendez herself—a safe place to start. You could say Maker’s Row came about out of sheer frustration. Menendez, a 2009 Department of Sociology graduate in the Division of Social Sciences, left a job at Goldman Sachs to help Burnett manage sales and operations for The…
March 15, 2018
…credit: SoleMate Engineers Sweep Entrepreneur Challenge Startup Stage at Ignite Engineers showed up in force at the second annual Ignite Conference pitch competition at UC San Diego. Almost a third of the 29 startups pitching their innovative business ideas during the Entrepreneur Challenge-led elevator pitch competition were founded by engineers—including…
January 13, 2022
…Grant to Foster Community Entrepreneurship Award to support UC San Diego’s Talent Foundry Accelerator over next three years UC San Diego has been awarded nearly $1 million as part of the U.S. government’s Build To Scale initiative, a federal program promoting the growth of technology entrepreneurship in historically underserved communities.…
June 30, 2022
…clinics. McFarland realizes female entrepreneurs face unique obstacles: “I have learned that a surprising amount of networking and business decisions take place in closed networks where women are often not included such as golf outings or over meals. This can be a very real disadvantage for the female entrepreneurs.” Nevertheless,…
February 22, 2018
…already robust lineup of entrepreneur programs geared towards veterans. The program enrolls a cohort of up to 25 veterans twice a year who work with proven entrepreneur mentors and are provided with resources to launch or scale their business or idea. What makes the program unique is that it is…
September 27, 2016
Biocom has announced the winners of its inaugural Life Science Catalyst Awards, presented in conjunction with the San Diego Venture Group, and UC San Diego-related innovators are prominent among the awardees.
September 26, 2022
Brittany Merrill Yeng ‘09, MS ‘10 takes on an American classic. This story was published in the Fall 2022 issue of UC San Diego Magazine.
