September 6, 2013
The Southern California Clean Energy Technology Acceleration Program (SoCal TAP) selected four revolutionary research teams from the University of California, San Diego and University of Southern California to receive $180,000 each in commercialization awards as part of a program overseen by the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego…
July 2, 2020
…Diego women excel in entrepreneurship. They learn the Triton way, under excellent instructors. Over the years, we have developed really strong programs on campus, including our student start-up incubator, The Basement, and Entrepreneurs-in-Residence mentor program. Triton women are solving real-world problems, impacting communities, and driving economic development,” he said. Paul…
October 8, 2020
…into the real world. “Entrepreneurship is our DNA,” Meng said, noting that nearly 800 companies have been spun out of UC San Diego in its 60-year history. One of Meng’s former students, Jungwoo Lee, co-founded South 8 Technologies, a company that develops liquefied gas electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries. Batteries…
January 21, 2021
…exposure to business and entrepreneurship. I would have loved to have taken business classes in my UC San Diego days—how great if current science and engineering students have this opportunity. Q: Advice for students who want to work in the biotech industry or aspire to a role such as yours?…
January 10, 2023
During UC San Diego’s fifth annual Changemaker Kickoff Week, campus community members can jump into opportunities to continue building the knowledge and skills needed to make the world a better place for all.
January 14, 2021
…on Black veganism, social entrepreneurship and supporting Black-owned businesses. This event begins at 5 p.m. and is part of the MLK Jr. Week of Service, hosted by the Center for Student Involvement. Intercultural Communication Workshop In 2020, UC San Diego launched the campus-wide Changemaker Institute to continue to champion, oversee…
February 6, 2020
…The Basement, the campus’s entrepreneurship hub, and focused on the theme “Envisioning Smart Cities through the Lens of Blackness.” It was hosted in the style of a hackathon; instead of spending the day programming computer software, however, students were given flexibility to build a model, write a new policy and…
March 14, 2024
The forward-thinking innovators behind Vektor Medical and FjordPhyto took home the top prizes during UC San Diego’s inaugural Chancellor’s Innovation Awards celebration, highlighting the university’s diverse entrepreneurial campus culture.
June 10, 2021
…industry partners as well. “Entrepreneurship is not about risk taking, it’s about opportunity seeking,” said Farrell “Industry and academia all need to be part of the same ecosystem with the same goals. They support each other in a loop where the best ideas are fed into the marketplace to generate…
September 27, 2012
There is a new home base for visiting researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and it also serves engineering and other faculty members who need international funding to help get new technologies closer to commercialization.
