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School:Morgan State University

2018-10-18T02:21:41Z

Wanjihiam16:

[[File:MSULOGOheader.png|700px|MSULOGOheader.png]]

Founded in 1867, Morgan State University is a Carnegie classified Doctoral Research Institution offering more than 70 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the masters and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible.

= Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

The Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Morgan State University-Interview with Dr. Singh By Adrien Feudjio

{{ #Widget:Youtube|id=RtNtTRZZPLM |width=900|height=400 }}

[[File:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg|center|900x700px|Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg]]

= Student Research Opportunities =

{{#Widget:Prezis| id=djdwxjbh20b5 |width=900|height=400 }}

= Campus Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan At A Glance*

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University, a coeducational institution, is located in a residential section of Baltimore, Maryland. The campus covers an area of more than 143 acres. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University offers a comprehensive range of academic programs through the doctorate. Morgan is also a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution of higher education. See the Nondiscrimination Policy. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By action of the Maryland Legislature, the University has been designated as Maryland's Public Urban University, with the responsibility of addressing the needs of residents, schools, and organizations within the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Morgan State University is located in a residential area of northeast Baltimore City. It is easily accessible from downtown, the Baltimore beltway, and Interstate 95. Each year, the school enrolls an average of 7,700 students in programs from the baccalaureate level through the doctorate.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Morgan State, our leadership circle has dug deep and found that students have aspirations and dreams of starting their own  businesses. The Morgan State Landscape Canvas provides sufficient amount of programs and seminars to get students on campus aware of entrepreneurship and innovative thinking. The issue on campus is students don’t feel empowered enough to voice their opinions. There’s a lack of interdisciplinary spaces that let students from different backgrounds come together and collaborate ideas and projects. The labs and facilities our school has are exclusive and only a few know about the resources. Morgan State is an HBCU, a school with strong culture and traditions. The students here have a different ways of learning and progressing within the academic curriculum. We need to develop an effective approach to get students involved and gear them towards an innovative mindset. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at Morgan are interested and willing to  help promote innovation and entrepreneurship into the Morgan ecosystem.The President, Dr. David Wilson, has voiced his support on the I&E movement; “I am truly excited with the innovation culture that is engulfing the campus and want to do everything I can to support and encourage it”. Encouraged faculty will subsequently strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship mindset in the teachers’ students. The vision will be shared and students will start to understand what it's all about. Dr. Archibald, from the Social Work Department, has stated that this movement is very important to him, and has some ideas on how to speed up this movement. Keeping in mind that Morgan State is an overall commuter school, we should make resources accessible for all students with hours that are convenient for all. Most of the commuter students have heavy schedules and are balancing full-time work schedules while having part-time or full-time course loads. The faculty will be a big part of this movement, because they can help articulate and help voice important student issues.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''The Office of Technology Transfer here at Morgan State University is a key tool that supports all entrepreneurs and innovators that have copyright needs or patents. They support all faculty and students that partake in research within the labs and facilities. They focus on intellectual property issues that may be concerning an individual. The purpose of The Office of Technology Transfer isto serve as a fully integrated center, structured to manage Morgan State’s intellectual property, fulfill the university's federal obligations, interact with industry to commercialize university intellectual property, foster economic development, and ultimately increase Morgan State’s resources to support its strategic goals. This office needs to operate at its highest level at all times. The students and researchers need to know all the rules and regulations to take their creations and discoveries to the industry smoothly and properly, and with the help of the Office of Technology Transfer, Morgan State can accomplish that. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The step from gathering your findings within a campus and getting it fine tuned to present to the industry is not an easy task, and requires the right tools and mentoring for a successful launch in the industry world. Morgan provides a few options to students who need help making the transition into the industry. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy focuses on supporting  start-up entrepreneurs in getting the right advice and helping with longevity and success. Director, Robert Singh, PhD., who is apart of this big movement, is a big believer in inclusive entrepreneurship and would like to make incubators for young entrepreneurs and training. The Earl G. Graves Business Building, which is the newest addition at MSU, will be the location of many of these spaces and tools. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory  (PEARL) is to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development. This is the biggest partnership Morgan (since 2004) has that focuses on bettering the community by research and findings based on the community needs. It is located near the Patuxent River in Saint Leonard, Maryland. The laboratory capabilities include Benthic, Pelagic & Nearshore Monitoring, Water Quality Monitoring, Power Plant & Industrial Compliance, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, GIS in Coastal Waters, Quantitative Analysis & Modeling, Natural Resource Economics, and Population and Community Ecology. We need to ensure the lab is being utilized at its fullest potential and if there is needs for improvement, we need to gather funds from sponsors to help the community grow.

*Adapted from [http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html]

= [[Morgan State University Student Priorities|Morgan State University Student Priorities]]  =

The above link directs you to Leadership Circle's Strategic Priorities. 

= Leadership Circle Change Stories =

[https://youtu.be/YvfMeegwomE Spring 2018 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

[https://youtu.be/fXSRQiGvuP8 Spring 2017 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

= Morgan State University Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sZda_2QMEYJA98nLgh73oOxKIahI9qQ4llmYK-PSoaI/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/19FgJJmEvq-v9bhXusqLCyqZeb3_nUz2TuhIdQL3UcRA/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=107245602447079222301 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Spring 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas ][https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Spring 2017  ]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyk6VtKlbDmugguwLY5OZXUzLglc-dP1PPQcG9NDyp8/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle 1 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_GEn6Xa8uT2xw0bB6cOvkePe1Eq5ULQSkOO9rN3gKA/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle 3 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXf-_t9FZfpy0ztqyqsyyoQY5IW1AcgIkH1SC5ygK0A/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2015]

= The University Technology Transfer Function =

'''Office of Technology and Transfer'''

The OTTR assists faculty and staff members, administrators, and students with intellectual property issues resulting from their reearch discoveries, and other scholarly and creative activities. It exists to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual property for the benefit of the university and the public. The OTTR provides assistance on such issues as patent applications, registering trademarks and copyrights.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

'''Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)'''

'''[[File:Gestar logo rgb.jpg|center|400x200px|Gestar logo rgb.jpg]]'''
<div>
A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the MSU component of the GESTAR Program began in May 2011. This program brings more than 40 established and internationally recognized scientists to MSU and creates broad research and internship opportunities in earth and atmospheric sciences for students. 

'''Extreme Science Internship'''

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=cJBVEqrhELI |width=900|height=400}}

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University announce a collaborative educational program called the Extreme Science Internship Program. This program is designed to provide a bridge between Morgan State science and engineering undergraduates and Johns Hopkins University, as well as fourteen other major research institutions and a large group of technology companies. HEMI addresses the fundamental issues associated with materials under extreme conditions, such as those developed during impact events. Our specific aim is to improve the human condition by providing government, industry and national institutions with science-based tools for designing materials for extreme environments. An endeavor as ambitious as this requires a collaborative effort across the nation’s top research institutes.
</div>
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

'''Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)'''

Research conducted at the PEARL facility located near the Patuxent River is designed to increase the understanding of coastal ecosystems so that they may be properly managed and protected. Much of the work is focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, such as the Patuxent River.

'''New Business School Building'''

Morgan State University recently opened the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management Business Center in 2015. The building contains hotel rooms, large kitchens for hospitality majors, Bloomberg terminal, and more. This building so far has brought new life to the Morgan State campus by expanding as well as modernizing the campus allowing the campus to be brought into a new light and gaining outsider attention. In under a year there have been multiple businesses that have hosted major events in the beautiful building. 

[[File:Morgan state business center.JPG|center|400x400px|Morgan state business center.JPG]]

= A National Treasure =

Morgan State University was designated a ''National Treasure'' by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016. This makes Morgan State University the only HBCU and first institution to achieve this designation. 

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

=== Fall 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Malaika Wanjihia|Malaika Wanjihia]]

Joshua Gist

Leilani Moten

Samuel Orelaja

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Oyare Victor Oko|Oyare Victor Oko]]

[[Sumayyah Raji|Sumayyah Raji]]

[[Evan Robertson|Evan Robertson]]

[[Averi Turner|Averi Turner]]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

=== Fall 2016 Fellows: ===

==== ''Leadership Circle 1:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

==== ''Leadership Circle 2:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

==== ''Leadership Circle 3: '' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 4:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 5:'' ====

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

=== Spring 2016 Fellows: ===

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

=== Fall 2015 Fellows: ===

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

=== Fall 2014 Fellow: ===

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

=== Fall 2013 Fellow: ===

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jaime Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Morgan State University

2018-10-18T02:21:03Z

Wanjihiam16:

[[File:MSULOGOheader.png|700px|MSULOGOheader.png]]

Founded in 1867, Morgan State University is a Carnegie classified Doctoral Research Institution offering more than 70 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the masters and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible.

= Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

The Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Morgan State University-Interview with Dr. Singh By Adrien Feudjio

{{ #Widget:Youtube|id=RtNtTRZZPLM |width=900|height=400 }}

[[File:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg|center|900x700px|Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg]]

= Student Research Opportunities =

{{#Widget:Prezis| id=djdwxjbh20b5 |width=900|height=400 }}

= Campus Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan At A Glance*

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University, a coeducational institution, is located in a residential section of Baltimore, Maryland. The campus covers an area of more than 143 acres. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University offers a comprehensive range of academic programs through the doctorate. Morgan is also a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution of higher education. See the Nondiscrimination Policy. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By action of the Maryland Legislature, the University has been designated as Maryland's Public Urban University, with the responsibility of addressing the needs of residents, schools, and organizations within the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Morgan State University is located in a residential area of northeast Baltimore City. It is easily accessible from downtown, the Baltimore beltway, and Interstate 95. Each year, the school enrolls an average of 7,700 students in programs from the baccalaureate level through the doctorate.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Morgan State, our leadership circle has dug deep and found that students have aspirations and dreams of starting their own  businesses. The Morgan State Landscape Canvas provides sufficient amount of programs and seminars to get students on campus aware of entrepreneurship and innovative thinking. The issue on campus is students don’t feel empowered enough to voice their opinions. There’s a lack of interdisciplinary spaces that let students from different backgrounds come together and collaborate ideas and projects. The labs and facilities our school has are exclusive and only a few know about the resources. Morgan State is an HBCU, a school with strong culture and traditions. The students here have a different ways of learning and progressing within the academic curriculum. We need to develop an effective approach to get students involved and gear them towards an innovative mindset. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at Morgan are interested and willing to  help promote innovation and entrepreneurship into the Morgan ecosystem.The President, Dr. David Wilson, has voiced his support on the I&E movement; “I am truly excited with the innovation culture that is engulfing the campus and want to do everything I can to support and encourage it”. Encouraged faculty will subsequently strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship mindset in the teachers’ students. The vision will be shared and students will start to understand what it's all about. Dr. Archibald, from the Social Work Department, has stated that this movement is very important to him, and has some ideas on how to speed up this movement. Keeping in mind that Morgan State is an overall commuter school, we should make resources accessible for all students with hours that are convenient for all. Most of the commuter students have heavy schedules and are balancing full-time work schedules while having part-time or full-time course loads. The faculty will be a big part of this movement, because they can help articulate and help voice important student issues.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''The Office of Technology Transfer here at Morgan State University is a key tool that supports all entrepreneurs and innovators that have copyright needs or patents. They support all faculty and students that partake in research within the labs and facilities. They focus on intellectual property issues that may be concerning an individual. The purpose of The Office of Technology Transfer isto serve as a fully integrated center, structured to manage Morgan State’s intellectual property, fulfill the university's federal obligations, interact with industry to commercialize university intellectual property, foster economic development, and ultimately increase Morgan State’s resources to support its strategic goals. This office needs to operate at its highest level at all times. The students and researchers need to know all the rules and regulations to take their creations and discoveries to the industry smoothly and properly, and with the help of the Office of Technology Transfer, Morgan State can accomplish that. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The step from gathering your findings within a campus and getting it fine tuned to present to the industry is not an easy task, and requires the right tools and mentoring for a successful launch in the industry world. Morgan provides a few options to students who need help making the transition into the industry. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy focuses on supporting  start-up entrepreneurs in getting the right advice and helping with longevity and success. Director, Robert Singh, PhD., who is apart of this big movement, is a big believer in inclusive entrepreneurship and would like to make incubators for young entrepreneurs and training. The Earl G. Graves Business Building, which is the newest addition at MSU, will be the location of many of these spaces and tools. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory  (PEARL) is to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development. This is the biggest partnership Morgan (since 2004) has that focuses on bettering the community by research and findings based on the community needs. It is located near the Patuxent River in Saint Leonard, Maryland. The laboratory capabilities include Benthic, Pelagic & Nearshore Monitoring, Water Quality Monitoring, Power Plant & Industrial Compliance, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, GIS in Coastal Waters, Quantitative Analysis & Modeling, Natural Resource Economics, and Population and Community Ecology. We need to ensure the lab is being utilized at its fullest potential and if there is needs for improvement, we need to gather funds from sponsors to help the community grow.

*Adapted from [http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html]

= [[Morgan State University Student Priorities|Morgan State University Student Priorities]]  =

The above link directs you to Leadership Circle's Strategic Priorities. 

= Leadership Circle Change Stories =

[https://youtu.be/YvfMeegwomE Spring 2018 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

[https://youtu.be/fXSRQiGvuP8 Spring 2017 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

= Morgan State University Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sZda_2QMEYJA98nLgh73oOxKIahI9qQ4llmYK-PSoaI/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/19FgJJmEvq-v9bhXusqLCyqZeb3_nUz2TuhIdQL3UcRA/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=107245602447079222301 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Spring 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas ][https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Spring 2017  ]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyk6VtKlbDmugguwLY5OZXUzLglc-dP1PPQcG9NDyp8/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle 1 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_GEn6Xa8uT2xw0bB6cOvkePe1Eq5ULQSkOO9rN3gKA/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle 3 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXf-_t9FZfpy0ztqyqsyyoQY5IW1AcgIkH1SC5ygK0A/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2015]

= The University Technology Transfer Function =

'''Office of Technology and Transfer'''

The OTTR assists faculty and staff members, administrators, and students with intellectual property issues resulting from their reearch discoveries, and other scholarly and creative activities. It exists to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual property for the benefit of the university and the public. The OTTR provides assistance on such issues as patent applications, registering trademarks and copyrights.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

'''Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)'''

'''[[File:Gestar logo rgb.jpg|center|400x200px|Gestar logo rgb.jpg]]'''
<div>
A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the MSU component of the GESTAR Program began in May 2011. This program brings more than 40 established and internationally recognized scientists to MSU and creates broad research and internship opportunities in earth and atmospheric sciences for students. 

'''Extreme Science Internship'''

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=cJBVEqrhELI |width=900|height=400}}

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University announce a collaborative educational program called the Extreme Science Internship Program. This program is designed to provide a bridge between Morgan State science and engineering undergraduates and Johns Hopkins University, as well as fourteen other major research institutions and a large group of technology companies. HEMI addresses the fundamental issues associated with materials under extreme conditions, such as those developed during impact events. Our specific aim is to improve the human condition by providing government, industry and national institutions with science-based tools for designing materials for extreme environments. An endeavor as ambitious as this requires a collaborative effort across the nation’s top research institutes.
</div>
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

'''Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)'''

Research conducted at the PEARL facility located near the Patuxent River is designed to increase the understanding of coastal ecosystems so that they may be properly managed and protected. Much of the work is focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, such as the Patuxent River.

'''New Business School Building'''

Morgan State University recently opened the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management Business Center in 2015. The building contains hotel rooms, large kitchens for hospitality majors, Bloomberg terminal, and more. This building so far has brought new life to the Morgan State campus by expanding as well as modernizing the campus allowing the campus to be brought into a new light and gaining outsider attention. In under a year there have been multiple businesses that have hosted major events in the beautiful building. 

[[File:Morgan state business center.JPG|center|400x400px|Morgan state business center.JPG]]

= A National Treasure =

Morgan State University was designated a ''National Treasure'' by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016. This makes Morgan State University the only HBCU and first institution to achieve this designation. 

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

=== Fall 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Malaika_Wanjihia|Malaika_Wanjihia]]

Joshua Gist

Leilani Moten

Samuel Orelaja

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Oyare Victor Oko|Oyare Victor Oko]]

[[Sumayyah Raji|Sumayyah Raji]]

[[Evan Robertson|Evan Robertson]]

[[Averi Turner|Averi Turner]]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

=== Fall 2016 Fellows: ===

==== ''Leadership Circle 1:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

==== ''Leadership Circle 2:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

==== ''Leadership Circle 3: '' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 4:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 5:'' ====

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

=== Spring 2016 Fellows: ===

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

=== Fall 2015 Fellows: ===

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

=== Fall 2014 Fellow: ===

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

=== Fall 2013 Fellow: ===

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jaime Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Malaika Wanjihia

2018-10-18T02:19:09Z

Wanjihiam16:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Malaika Wanjihia.jpg|thumb]]Malaika Wanjihia, is a University Innovation Fellow and she is an Electrical Engineering major with a concentration in Cyber Security at Morgan State University. Malaika Wanjihia was born in Baltimore, Maryland and her family is from Kenya where she visits often. She identifies herself as a Kenyan woman and loves her culture very much.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malaika, has a passion for community service and loves giving back to her community and helping others. She tutors and mentors middle-high school students from inner city Baltimore in Math and Reading and encourages them to dream big and challenge themselves to reach their goals. She also has participated in many mission trips which were both inside and outside of the country. Her two most recent mission trips were to Haiti and Jamaica where she taught Math and English to students from elementary to high school. She learned a lot about herself and what it means to be a good leader and truly listen to the needs of others. Malaika loves to travel the world and has gained a global perspective from all of her travel experiences.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malaika loves to try new things, she has built a 3D printer with friends for fun, and also completed research that focused on bluetooth sniffing devices. She recently just finished an internship at Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Base in Orlando, Florida. She was working as a systems engineer for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Fighter Jet Autonomic Logistics Information System Enterprise testing team. She got to complete action requests where she helped the customers with Fighter Jets figure out solutions to the problems they had with them.  She also cleaned up regression scenarios for her program and made diagrams that focused on interface controlled documents that showed the triggers and messages that went between Lockheed Martin and external parties. Her favorite part of the internship was automating test cases within an initial readiness check for the Enterprise Testing team. She got to learn a different type of code and also built more of a software logic into her brain, she thought it was cool to automate things that people initially had to do manually.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship is very important to Malaika. She has a small business of her own where she sells hats and clothes that she makes. She has had the opportunity to have the clothes she’s made featured in fashion shows and also showcased at events. She has been able to use her creativity to make cool hats and clothing and hopes to expand her business and leadership skills in the future and own a company of her own that develops medical devices. Malaika also loves to play soccer, she loves to dance and try new foods. She also has skydived from a plane at 14,000ft which gave her a more fearless attitude and a willingness to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Malaika Wanjihia

2018-10-18T02:18:45Z

Wanjihiam16:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Malaika Wanjihia.jpg|thumb|Malaika Wanjihia.jpg]]Malaika Wanjihia, is a University Innovation Fellow and she is an Electrical Engineering major with a concentration in Cyber Security at Morgan State University. Malaika Wanjihia was born in Baltimore, Maryland and her family is from Kenya where she visits often. She identifies herself as a Kenyan woman and loves her culture very much.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malaika, has a passion for community service and loves giving back to her community and helping others. She tutors and mentors middle-high school students from inner city Baltimore in Math and Reading and encourages them to dream big and challenge themselves to reach their goals. She also has participated in many mission trips which were both inside and outside of the country. Her two most recent mission trips were to Haiti and Jamaica where she taught Math and English to students from elementary to high school. She learned a lot about herself and what it means to be a good leader and truly listen to the needs of others. Malaika loves to travel the world and has gained a global perspective from all of her travel experiences.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malaika loves to try new things, she has built a 3D printer with friends for fun, and also completed research that focused on bluetooth sniffing devices. She recently just finished an internship at Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Base in Orlando, Florida. She was working as a systems engineer for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Fighter Jet Autonomic Logistics Information System Enterprise testing team. She got to complete action requests where she helped the customers with Fighter Jets figure out solutions to the problems they had with them.  She also cleaned up regression scenarios for her program and made diagrams that focused on interface controlled documents that showed the triggers and messages that went between Lockheed Martin and external parties. Her favorite part of the internship was automating test cases within an initial readiness check for the Enterprise Testing team. She got to learn a different type of code and also built more of a software logic into her brain, she thought it was cool to automate things that people initially had to do manually.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship is very important to Malaika. She has a small business of her own where she sells hats and clothes that she makes. She has had the opportunity to have the clothes she’s made featured in fashion shows and also showcased at events. She has been able to use her creativity to make cool hats and clothing and hopes to expand her business and leadership skills in the future and own a company of her own that develops medical devices. Malaika also loves to play soccer, she loves to dance and try new foods. She also has skydived from a plane at 14,000ft which gave her a more fearless attitude and a willingness to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Malaika Wanjihia

2018-10-18T02:17:01Z

Wanjihiam16: Created page with "<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-v..."

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Malaika Wanjihia.jpg|thumb]]Malaika Wanjihia, is a University Innovation Fellow and she is an Electrical Engineering major with a concentration in Cyber Security at Morgan State University. Malaika Wanjihia was born in Baltimore, Maryland and her family is from Kenya where she visits often. She identifies herself as a Kenyan woman and loves her culture very much.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malaika, has a passion for community service and loves giving back to her community and helping others. She tutors and mentors middle-high school students from inner city Baltimore in Math and Reading and encourages them to dream big and challenge themselves to reach their goals. She also has participated in many mission trips which were both inside and outside of the country. Her two most recent mission trips were to Haiti and Jamaica where she taught Math and English to students from elementary to high school. She learned a lot about herself and what it means to be a good leader and truly listen to the needs of others. Malaika loves to travel the world and has gained a global perspective from all of her travel experiences.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malaika loves to try new things, she has built a 3D printer with friends for fun, and also completed research that focused on bluetooth sniffing devices. She recently just finished an internship at Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Base in Orlando, Florida. She was working as a systems engineer for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Fighter Jet Autonomic Logistics Information System Enterprise testing team. She got to complete action requests where she helped the customers with Fighter Jets figure out solutions to the problems they had with them.  She also cleaned up regression scenarios for her program and made diagrams that focused on interface controlled documents that showed the triggers and messages that went between Lockheed Martin and external parties. Her favorite part of the internship was automating test cases within an initial readiness check for the Enterprise Testing team. She got to learn a different type of code and also built more of a software logic into her brain, she thought it was cool to automate things that people initially had to do manually.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship is very important to Malaika. She has a small business of her own where she sells hats and clothes that she makes. She has had the opportunity to have the clothes she’s made featured in fashion shows and also showcased at events. She has been able to use her creativity to make cool hats and clothing and hopes to expand her business and leadership skills in the future and own a company of her own that develops medical devices. Malaika also loves to play soccer, she loves to dance and try new foods. She also has skydived from a plane at 14,000ft which gave her a more fearless attitude and a willingness to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

File:Malaika Wanjihia.jpg

2018-10-18T02:11:26Z

Wanjihiam16:

Priorities:Morgan State University Student Priorities

2018-10-05T14:53:40Z

Wanjihiam16:

= Overview =

Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service, and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society.

= Project Pitch Videos =

Spring 2018 Video: [https://youtu.be/-Q8FQRLs-20 Video Link]

= Strategic Priorities =

Strategic Priority #1'''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSU Innovation Milestone / Plans''' <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF students of 2019 will create a Innovative 5 year plans approved by the University President and molded by the university faculty and students of how we  will promote innovation changes.This plan will be tailored with student and faculty feedback of ideas to innovate and improve the quality and lifestyle at Morgan State University. Similar President Wilson Strategic Plan we will write and outline the goals we strive for along. We will reach out to each school on the campus and agree which initiatives will be apart of the first year milestones and then evaluate our progress and how the next years initiatives will follow. For instance, many of the foreign language teacher want to promote a language day to encourage clubs and organization where they enjoy   variety of foods and practice linguistic skills. We could incorporate into the morgan calendar with faculty approval and coordination and eventually add this to the culture day we host. Overall this one milestone would be similar to a open house but for linguistics and this would be one of the goals we set for year one. [http://issuu.com/morganstateu/docs/strategicplan2011-21_final?e=2119971/60089621 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Msu Strategic Planning]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #2<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morg-avate <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To implement a more innovative and growing Morgan State University community, it is essential to reach out to other schools in the area and even other community members to increase the amount of collaboration and integration of ideas at our school and within our community. Morgan needs to build long lasting relationships with other schools and the community to expand its innovative and collaborative culture. Schools such as: Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Coppin State University, and Loyola are close to Morgan, and having collaborative events with them where we have educational sessions about different innovative projects or challenges would be a great way to promote innovation in our community and expand past Morgan to other schools with different backgrounds and ideas. Having an event held over the span of a weekend where students from different majors, schools, and backgrounds could come together and learn design thinking techniques from experts and then actually apply those techniques in a competition or design thinking challenge would be great for students to really get hands on experience. This could include inspirational talks, design thinking sessions, and an allotted time where people with similar interests or passions no matter their major in school can group together to work towards coming up with an innovative solution to the challenge with a prize of some sort.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #3<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni & Student Engagement<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on our research, Alumni to student relationship/engagement is capable of improving innovation and entrepreneurship among students significantly but we noticed that this has not been utilized to its maximum potential in our school right now. We plan to set up and organize mentoring programs that would consists of several alumnis from different majors, in order to create opportunities for several students who would love to be mentored by people as experienced as the alumnis. This would help motivate and inspire the students to aspire higher. We would also love to make alumnis help/take part in student organizations activities in order to foster networking. The alumnis can be used as guest speakers in the student organizations or even club events in order to enlighten students about their experiences in the real world and also the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.Strategic Priority #4<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvement of the Innovative and Collaborative Culture<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To motivate students and create awareness of innovation activities and opportunities on campus as well as within the DMV area . Students at Morgan are innovators. Some students are aware of this fact others are unsure.Based on our research students want to have a more active role in decisions that impact their learning and living environment on campus . As well as sharing their ideas on how to build the Morgan community upwards. We plan to solve this problem by hosting a TED talk that will not only motivate students but also teach them how to use their skills become innovators and make the change that they want to see. The TED talk series will be discussed and organized through the TED talk club initiative which will include not only students but faculty members . This will be one of the few clubs on campus that is not solely student led. The advantage of this would be creating a joined atmosphere refuting the banking model of education which suggest that the students know nothing and the teachers know everything.<div> </div><div> </div>
Problem #1: Campus Communication

Campus Spirit is a defining character on any school’s campus. Morgan students need something to raise their dampened spirits and create a bubbly atmosphere. We realized that the real problem is students are not aware of things happening on campus.

MSU Announce is the email service that broadcasts information to students. On a daily basis, students receive about 3-5 emails relaying campus news. The volume of information received makes it hard to keep up with or filter out relevant information.

This observation led to the idea of placing electronic banners in key locations to disperse news all over campus. The banners can be used as a medium for students to advertise services, businesses, products, and events.

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Prototype Video:

Video link: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing]

Problem #2: Improving Morgan Housing

Problem:Morgan State University (MSU) has a deficit of suitable housing for students with a

desire to live on campus. This academic school year, MSU admitted its largest freshmen class

ever, resulting in a shortage of housing, classes, and food for students of all academic levels.

Solutions: 1.Purchase residential buildings in the surrounding community to increase

housing options for full-time students.

What I learned:

1. The process of finding funding for future development is very difficult.

2. The school must find funding to increase the security presence for “off-campus” housing,

as well.

3. There needs to be a manager, much like a landlord, to maintain the integrity of the

residential buildings.

What I could improve:

I could have a further detailed approach to obtaining the funds necessary to begin the project.

PROTOTYPE: A[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-vp-nlii-KFVyhyYvLDKm99XAo_Vh1m?usp=sharing <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">housing proposal]

Problem #3: Improving Morgan Food Experience

This aims to solve the food difficulty on campus. We are calling it “Bear Eats.” This is a phone application that students can use anytime to order food from restaurants close by. The driving is only open to students. While testing I learned a lot. These can be found in the Bear Eats feedback grid.

Video link: <span style="text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(57, 176, 229); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://goo.gl/LRRfnF https://goo.gl/LRRfnF]

== Encourage student Awareness and Involvement on Campus ==

The University Innovation Fellows at Morgan State University are unique because our team is composed of individuals who have different backgrounds and experiences creating an abundance of ideas and perspectives.  The team’s goal is to help bring about a change that the students want to see, and also help raise awareness and understanding of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation. Morgan State offers many useful resources but they are either limited to certain majors or most students simply do not know they exist. Our goal is to make all labs, workshops and development centers accessible to every student.

 

== Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center ==

This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.

== Incorporate Diversity Representation ==

Students participating in a Multicultural week to showcase the treasures of the underrepresented ethnicities on campus. Morgan having a large variety of international students, all cultures should be celebrated and unbiased. A brief general overview of Multicultural week: There will be a variety of events throughout the week where students can represent their countries flags, traditional attire and food. A multicultural mixer for students to music from different countries. Lastly, an day of cultural education, where students have the opportunity to teach other students on campus about their countries.

Tactic #1: Utilizing the Student Government Association and various student campus orginizations propose to the Univeristy a Mulitcultural Week.

Tactic #2: Once we have gained interest, collobarate with different cultural organizations (eg. Carribean Student Association, Latin Student Association etc.) and draft a event of weekly activities that will appeal to the student body and represent a variety of cultures on campus.

Tactic #3: Make sure we have equal amount of representation and campus paticipation and promote the weekly events on campus. Draft promotional flyers and use social media as an outlet to reach our audience. Each cultural group will aslo be expected to invite their friends and family and enjoy their music, food, and traditional clothing.

Tactic #4: Broadcast to the Morgan MILE which is the community that surrounds Morgan so that they may be involved in the cultural education. 

== Install BearBoards throughout campus. ==

To implement this project, the steps that need to be taken are:

1.   Present Idea to Stakeholders, and check the interest and support levels

2.   Ask students on campus how they would like BearBoards

3.   Come up with specific design and prototype of BearBoards

4.   Reveal the prototype to Stakeholders and possible Sponsors and Donors

5.   Begin the installation process for the BearBoards

6.   Announce the opening of the BearBoards and promote usage throughout campus.

 

== Product Development Center ==

The University Innovation Fellows plan to bring a Product Development Center to Morgan State University. This center will be a makerspace which allows students to develop prototypes. Morgan is home to many great ideas and wonderful entrepreneurs but students do not have a space to make those dreams come to fruition.

 

== Design Thinking Workshops ==

Design thinking workshops that involve both engineering and business students will be beneficial because students will collaborate ideas when working with such individuals form different fields. Mixing the two majors can have a huge impact on the university and growth of the students as well. Design thinking invokes a new process for developing answers to problems from multidimensional perspectives making it an excellent project.

Tactical #1: Research and find students and or professors who are well versed in Innovation and Design Thinking concepts to offer there time to partake in Design Thinking Workshops yearly. Coordinate with Dr. Foster a UIF Advisor who has done a Design Thinking Course to collaborate on how to approach this program at Morgan.

Tactical #2: Incorporate a trial Design Thinking Workshop open to a small sample group. This will help to gain feedback, and allow us to understand how to improve the workshops before opening to the general public.

Tactical #3: Implement improvement from feedback and open Design Thinking works shops to Morgan students of all majors and classifications.

Tactical #4: Get students interested in working towards a Maker Space. 

 

== Alumni Student Mixer ==

The disconnect between Alumni and students can be helped by incorporating the Alumni Student Mixer. The Alumni House on campus has a specific budget and council used to incorporate the connection between alumni and students. Unfortunately these resources are never used to bring the two together. An Alumni Student mixer can help bridge the gap of non-communication and open opportunities for job offers, internships for students as well as possible events to incorporate on Morgan's campus that is beneficial to the campus community.

Tactic #1: Reach out to Alumni house on campus to act as a liaison between Alumni and current student body. 

Tactic #2: Begin reaching out to Alumni introducing them to the idea and giving them ample time to schedule time with us.

Tactic #3: Work diligently with the administration in the Alumni House to solidify logistics (i.e. Location, maximum capacity, itinerary of the event, costs and materials needed, book a photographer, plan promotion tactics)

Tactic #4: Use promotion tactics as agreed between the Alumni House and our group to reach out to students on campus. In order to reach out to students, we will most likely partner with prevalent student organizations with high visibility (i.e. Student Government Association, SMOOTH Organization, National Council of Negro Women Club, etc.) to gain student body interest. Continue to promote this event to ensure great attendance.

Tactic #5: Send same promotional details to Alumni ranging from graduating Class of 1970 to the most recent graduating class. This allows a broad spectrum of Alumni that can appeal to the student body. Give Alumni ample amount of time to spread the word and to request off of work or arrange travel plans in time of event.

Tactic #6: Plan an agenda balancing fun activities (like a "Battle of the Decades" DJ competition, "Journey through time" fashion show of attire worn back when each class went to school divided by very 5 years, and a menu for attendees to be able to enjoy food). Plan engaging networking opportunities inbetween (Keynote speakers from top companies speaking to students, panel of Alumni for a professional Q&A, "Speed Interviewing"; match students with one Alumni from a top company and every 5 minutes the student would move down to the next Alumni, this would allow students to get a snapshot of the company and allows the Alumni to meet students for potential job offers (resumes and business cards would be exchanged, at the end, each would rate the other and high rankings will be paired after event)). This maximizes attendance for the current student body by attracting them with "fun" and professional development, as well as appealing to the Alumni for a walk down memory lane and an opportunity to give back to their Alma Mater. 

Tactic #7: Launch event.

== Expose more STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

'''Tactic #1-'''The provision of an Introduction to Business course for STEM majors will heavily attract the interest of these students who feel they just have to get the A's  to become well rounded.

'''Tactic #2- '''Introducing a Campus Discovery concept called Morgan Konnect where students will be able to view and leverage the [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing# Morgan State University Landscape Canvas] to Discover,Learn, Experiment, Pursue, and Spin out.

'''Tactic #3- '''Building an incubator for students who have personal projects they would like to pursue in line with technological innovation. This environment will aid the students to build a creative mindset which may be the seed of "The Next Big Thing."

== Increase Student-Driven Commercialization ==

Morgan has stated that it will "support innovation in business and the commercialization of intellectual property through growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, securing an increased number of patents, and establishing a technology transfer center to support the creation of new business and technology transfer enterprises"

'''Tactic #1: Local Tech Collaboration with incubators such as [http://etcbaltimore.com/ ETC Baltimore] and accelerators such as [http://www.juxtopia.org/about/founder/ Juxtopia]:'''

Morgan has stated that it wants to "explore public/private collaborative relationships with developers, contractors, and other commercial groups and entities to develop new environmentally-sustainable and technologically-advanced administrative and student residential facilities, to expand Morgan’s physical presence throughout the state, and to promote the state and the Morgan brand."

== Local partnerships that will expose students to industrial and entrepreneurial skills through projects designed by members of the local tech community. ==

'''Tactic #2: Redefining the terms of the intellectual property rights outline by Morgan State University:'''

Students are eager to build new technology and make changes, but as individuals who have work hard though using the resources of the college would like to believe that in the 21st century students can still receive recognition for their work. A proposal is that "any potentially patentable inventions belong to the university, and royalties are split between the inventor, his/her department and Morgan State University (1/3 each). For undergraduates, the IP is theirs, unless their work has been supported by research funds, or they have made use of shops, labs and other Morgan State University property more than incidentally."



== Morgan Konnect ==

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'''Dining at Morgan'''
 
                   After countless interviews with students, we’ve concluded that dining is the biggest issue on campus. So, as a leadership circle, we’ve decided to take on several projects that we believe would drastically improve the dining experience at Morgan in all areas. From snacks, to small groceries, to toiletries, and especially breakfast, lunch and dinner, we believe our four projects will change the dynamic of how Morgan operates. Without quality meals, the overall ecosystem at Morgan would be damaged and hinder students from innovation, entrepreneurship, and their own personal and academic priorities. We believe that with better access to food, an ultimate necessity, our I&E ecosystem will improve.
 '''Project 1: Social Media'''

 

'''Tactic1.'''  Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat would be our target social media pages 

'''Tactic 2. '''Upgrade our MSU dining website to state meals of the week along with nutritional facts

'''Tactic 3.''' Internet ads

'''Tactic 4.''' Guaranteed update on Morgan State University homepage for changed dining decisions

'''Project 2: Dining Poll'''

 

'''Tactic 1.''' Allow reviews on MSU food calendar website where you can rate the meals by stars and comments

'''Tactic 2.''' Take polls of vegan/ vegetarian/ international students’ preferences

'''Tactic 3.''' Staff evaluation by students who can comment anonymously

'''Tactic 4.''' Food website has staff photos and names helping identifying who was on call if an issue occurs or if the person dining would like to give a compliment

'''Tactic 5.''' Data of desired dining hours

 

'''Project 3: Desired Dining Hours'''

 

'''Tactic 1. '''Collect data of high volumes of dining swipes 

'''Tactic 2.''' Push for these hours; given a students perspective. Breakfast 7:00am-10:30am, Lunch 11:00am- 3:30pm, Snack Shop 3:30pm- 4:30pm, Dinner 6:00pm- 10:00pm

 

'''Project 4: Convenience Store'''



'''Tactic 1.''' Increase late night security 

'''Tactic 2.''' Put money on bear card to pay for products in store (Benny Bucks)

'''Tactic 3.''' Non-food products can be purchased with Benny Bucks (ex: school supplies, contraceptives, toiletries, event tickets, parking tickets etc.)

'''Tactic 4'''. Push for operation hours 8:00pm- 1:00am

'''Tactic 5.''' Ticket station (students will be able to purchase event tickets and pay for parking. It will be bear card accessible only)

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Oyare%20Victor%20Oko Oyare Victor Oko]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sumayyah%20Raji Sumayyah Raji]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Evan%20Robertson Evan Robertson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Averi%20Turner Averi M. Turner]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

Fall 2016 Fellows:

''Leadership Circle 1:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

''Leadership Circle 2:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

''Leadership Circle 3: ''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

''Leadership Circle 4:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

''Leadership Circle 5:''

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

Spring 2016 Fellows:

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

Fall 2015 Fellows:

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

Fall 2014 Fellow:

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

Fall 2013 Fellow:

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jamie Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|m]]

Priorities:Morgan State University Student Priorities

2018-10-05T14:50:41Z

Wanjihiam16:

= Overview =

Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service, and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society.

= Project Pitch Videos =

Spring 2018 Video: [https://youtu.be/-Q8FQRLs-20 Video Link]

= Strategic Priorities =
Strategic Priority #1'''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSU Innovation Milestone / Plans''' <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF students of 2019 will create a Innovative 5 year plans approved by the University President and molded by the university faculty and students of how we  will promote innovation changes.This plan will be tailored with student and faculty feedback of ideas to innovate and improve the quality and lifestyle at Morgan State University. Similar President Wilson Strategic Plan we will write and outline the goals we strive for along. We will reach out to each school on the campus and agree which initiatives will be apart of the first year milestones and then evaluate our progress and how the next years initiatives will follow. For instance, many of the foreign language teacher want to promote a language day to encourage clubs and organization where they enjoy   variety of foods and practice linguistic skills. We could incorporate into the morgan calendar with faculty approval and coordination and eventually add this to the culture day we host. Overall this one milestone would be similar to a open house but for linguistics and this would be one of the goals we set for year one. [http://issuu.com/morganstateu/docs/strategicplan2011-21_final?e=2119971/60089621 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Msu Strategic Planning]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #2<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morg-avate <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To implement a more innovative and growing Morgan State University community, it is essential to reach out to other schools in the area and even other community members to increase the amount of collaboration and integration of ideas at our school and within our community. Morgan needs to build long lasting relationships with other schools and the community to expand its innovative and collaborative culture. Schools such as: Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Coppin State University, and Loyola are close to Morgan, and having collaborative events with them where we have educational sessions about different innovative projects or challenges would be a great way to promote innovation in our community and expand past Morgan to other schools with different backgrounds and ideas. Having an event held over the span of a weekend where students from different majors, schools, and backgrounds could come together and learn design thinking techniques from experts and then actually apply those techniques in a competition or design thinking challenge would be great for students to really get hands on experience. This could include inspirational talks, design thinking sessions, and an allotted time where people with similar interests or passions no matter their major in school can group together to work towards coming up with an innovative solution to the challenge with a prize of some sort.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #3<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni & Student Engagement<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on our research, Alumni to student relationship/engagement is capable of improving innovation and entrepreneurship among students significantly but we noticed that this has not been utilized to its maximum potential in our school right now. We plan to set up and organize mentoring programs that would consists of several alumnis from different majors, in order to create opportunities for several students who would love to be mentored by people as experienced as the alumnis. This would help motivate and inspire the students to aspire higher. We would also love to make alumnis help/take part in student organizations activities in order to foster networking. The alumnis can be used as guest speakers in the student organizations or even club events in order to enlighten students about their experiences in the real world and also the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.Strategic Priority #4<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvement of the Innovative and Collaborative Culture<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To motivate students and create awareness of innovation activities and opportunities on campus as well as within the DMV area . Students at Morgan are innovators. Some students are aware of this fact others are unsure.Based on our research students want to have a more active role in decisions that impact their learning and living environment on campus . As well as sharing their ideas on how to build the Morgan community upwards. We plan to solve this problem by hosting a TED talk that will not only motivate students but also teach them how to use their skills become innovators and make the change that they want to see. The TED talk series will be discussed and organized through the TED talk club initiative which will include not only students but faculty members . This will be one of the few clubs on campus that is not solely student led. The advantage of this would be creating a joined atmosphere refuting the banking model of education which suggest that the students know nothing and the teachers know everything.<div> </div><div> </div>
Problem #1: Campus Communication

Campus Spirit is a defining character on any school’s campus. Morgan students need something to raise their dampened spirits and create a bubbly atmosphere. We realized that the real problem is students are not aware of things happening on campus.

MSU Announce is the email service that broadcasts information to students. On a daily basis, students receive about 3-5 emails relaying campus news. The volume of information received makes it hard to keep up with or filter out relevant information.

This observation led to the idea of placing electronic banners in key locations to disperse news all over campus. The banners can be used as a medium for students to advertise services, businesses, products, and events.

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Prototype Video:

Video link: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing]

Problem #2: Improving Morgan Housing

Problem:Morgan State University (MSU) has a deficit of suitable housing for students with a

desire to live on campus. This academic school year, MSU admitted its largest freshmen class

ever, resulting in a shortage of housing, classes, and food for students of all academic levels.

Solutions: 1.Purchase residential buildings in the surrounding community to increase

housing options for full-time students.

What I learned:

1. The process of finding funding for future development is very difficult.

2. The school must find funding to increase the security presence for “off-campus” housing,

as well.

3. There needs to be a manager, much like a landlord, to maintain the integrity of the

residential buildings.

What I could improve:

I could have a further detailed approach to obtaining the funds necessary to begin the project.

PROTOTYPE: A[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-vp-nlii-KFVyhyYvLDKm99XAo_Vh1m?usp=sharing <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">housing proposal]

Problem #3: Improving Morgan Food Experience

This aims to solve the food difficulty on campus. We are calling it “Bear Eats.” This is a phone application that students can use anytime to order food from restaurants close by. The driving is only open to students. While testing I learned a lot. These can be found in the Bear Eats feedback grid.

Video link: <span style="text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(57, 176, 229); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://goo.gl/LRRfnF https://goo.gl/LRRfnF]

== Encourage student Awareness and Involvement on Campus ==

The University Innovation Fellows at Morgan State University are unique because our team is composed of individuals who have different backgrounds and experiences creating an abundance of ideas and perspectives.  The team’s goal is to help bring about a change that the students want to see, and also help raise awareness and understanding of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation. Morgan State offers many useful resources but they are either limited to certain majors or most students simply do not know they exist. Our goal is to make all labs, workshops and development centers accessible to every student.

 

== Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center ==

This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.

== Incorporate Diversity Representation ==

Students participating in a Multicultural week to showcase the treasures of the underrepresented ethnicities on campus. Morgan having a large variety of international students, all cultures should be celebrated and unbiased. A brief general overview of Multicultural week: There will be a variety of events throughout the week where students can represent their countries flags, traditional attire and food. A multicultural mixer for students to music from different countries. Lastly, an day of cultural education, where students have the opportunity to teach other students on campus about their countries.

Tactic #1: Utilizing the Student Government Association and various student campus orginizations propose to the Univeristy a Mulitcultural Week.

Tactic #2: Once we have gained interest, collobarate with different cultural organizations (eg. Carribean Student Association, Latin Student Association etc.) and draft a event of weekly activities that will appeal to the student body and represent a variety of cultures on campus.

Tactic #3: Make sure we have equal amount of representation and campus paticipation and promote the weekly events on campus. Draft promotional flyers and use social media as an outlet to reach our audience. Each cultural group will aslo be expected to invite their friends and family and enjoy their music, food, and traditional clothing.

Tactic #4: Broadcast to the Morgan MILE which is the community that surrounds Morgan so that they may be involved in the cultural education. 

== Install BearBoards throughout campus. ==

To implement this project, the steps that need to be taken are:

1.   Present Idea to Stakeholders, and check the interest and support levels

2.   Ask students on campus how they would like BearBoards

3.   Come up with specific design and prototype of BearBoards

4.   Reveal the prototype to Stakeholders and possible Sponsors and Donors

5.   Begin the installation process for the BearBoards

6.   Announce the opening of the BearBoards and promote usage throughout campus.

 

== Product Development Center ==

The University Innovation Fellows plan to bring a Product Development Center to Morgan State University. This center will be a makerspace which allows students to develop prototypes. Morgan is home to many great ideas and wonderful entrepreneurs but students do not have a space to make those dreams come to fruition.

 

== Design Thinking Workshops ==

Design thinking workshops that involve both engineering and business students will be beneficial because students will collaborate ideas when working with such individuals form different fields. Mixing the two majors can have a huge impact on the university and growth of the students as well. Design thinking invokes a new process for developing answers to problems from multidimensional perspectives making it an excellent project.

Tactical #1: Research and find students and or professors who are well versed in Innovation and Design Thinking concepts to offer there time to partake in Design Thinking Workshops yearly. Coordinate with Dr. Foster a UIF Advisor who has done a Design Thinking Course to collaborate on how to approach this program at Morgan.

Tactical #2: Incorporate a trial Design Thinking Workshop open to a small sample group. This will help to gain feedback, and allow us to understand how to improve the workshops before opening to the general public.

Tactical #3: Implement improvement from feedback and open Design Thinking works shops to Morgan students of all majors and classifications.

Tactical #4: Get students interested in working towards a Maker Space. 

 

== Alumni Student Mixer ==

The disconnect between Alumni and students can be helped by incorporating the Alumni Student Mixer. The Alumni House on campus has a specific budget and council used to incorporate the connection between alumni and students. Unfortunately these resources are never used to bring the two together. An Alumni Student mixer can help bridge the gap of non-communication and open opportunities for job offers, internships for students as well as possible events to incorporate on Morgan's campus that is beneficial to the campus community.

Tactic #1: Reach out to Alumni house on campus to act as a liaison between Alumni and current student body. 

Tactic #2: Begin reaching out to Alumni introducing them to the idea and giving them ample time to schedule time with us.

Tactic #3: Work diligently with the administration in the Alumni House to solidify logistics (i.e. Location, maximum capacity, itinerary of the event, costs and materials needed, book a photographer, plan promotion tactics)

Tactic #4: Use promotion tactics as agreed between the Alumni House and our group to reach out to students on campus. In order to reach out to students, we will most likely partner with prevalent student organizations with high visibility (i.e. Student Government Association, SMOOTH Organization, National Council of Negro Women Club, etc.) to gain student body interest. Continue to promote this event to ensure great attendance.

Tactic #5: Send same promotional details to Alumni ranging from graduating Class of 1970 to the most recent graduating class. This allows a broad spectrum of Alumni that can appeal to the student body. Give Alumni ample amount of time to spread the word and to request off of work or arrange travel plans in time of event.

Tactic #6: Plan an agenda balancing fun activities (like a "Battle of the Decades" DJ competition, "Journey through time" fashion show of attire worn back when each class went to school divided by very 5 years, and a menu for attendees to be able to enjoy food). Plan engaging networking opportunities inbetween (Keynote speakers from top companies speaking to students, panel of Alumni for a professional Q&A, "Speed Interviewing"; match students with one Alumni from a top company and every 5 minutes the student would move down to the next Alumni, this would allow students to get a snapshot of the company and allows the Alumni to meet students for potential job offers (resumes and business cards would be exchanged, at the end, each would rate the other and high rankings will be paired after event)). This maximizes attendance for the current student body by attracting them with "fun" and professional development, as well as appealing to the Alumni for a walk down memory lane and an opportunity to give back to their Alma Mater. 

Tactic #7: Launch event.

== Expose more STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

'''Tactic #1-'''The provision of an Introduction to Business course for STEM majors will heavily attract the interest of these students who feel they just have to get the A's  to become well rounded.

'''Tactic #2- '''Introducing a Campus Discovery concept called Morgan Konnect where students will be able to view and leverage the [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing# Morgan State University Landscape Canvas] to Discover,Learn, Experiment, Pursue, and Spin out.

'''Tactic #3- '''Building an incubator for students who have personal projects they would like to pursue in line with technological innovation. This environment will aid the students to build a creative mindset which may be the seed of "The Next Big Thing."

== Increase Student-Driven Commercialization ==

Morgan has stated that it will "support innovation in business and the commercialization of intellectual property through growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, securing an increased number of patents, and establishing a technology transfer center to support the creation of new business and technology transfer enterprises"

'''Tactic #1: Local Tech Collaboration with incubators such as [http://etcbaltimore.com/ ETC Baltimore] and accelerators such as [http://www.juxtopia.org/about/founder/ Juxtopia]:'''

Morgan has stated that it wants to "explore public/private collaborative relationships with developers, contractors, and other commercial groups and entities to develop new environmentally-sustainable and technologically-advanced administrative and student residential facilities, to expand Morgan’s physical presence throughout the state, and to promote the state and the Morgan brand."

== Local partnerships that will expose students to industrial and entrepreneurial skills through projects designed by members of the local tech community. ==

'''Tactic #2: Redefining the terms of the intellectual property rights outline by Morgan State University:'''

Students are eager to build new technology and make changes, but as individuals who have work hard though using the resources of the college would like to believe that in the 21st century students can still receive recognition for their work. A proposal is that "any potentially patentable inventions belong to the university, and royalties are split between the inventor, his/her department and Morgan State University (1/3 each). For undergraduates, the IP is theirs, unless their work has been supported by research funds, or they have made use of shops, labs and other Morgan State University property more than incidentally."



== Morgan Konnect ==

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'''Dining at Morgan'''
 
                   After countless interviews with students, we’ve concluded that dining is the biggest issue on campus. So, as a leadership circle, we’ve decided to take on several projects that we believe would drastically improve the dining experience at Morgan in all areas. From snacks, to small groceries, to toiletries, and especially breakfast, lunch and dinner, we believe our four projects will change the dynamic of how Morgan operates. Without quality meals, the overall ecosystem at Morgan would be damaged and hinder students from innovation, entrepreneurship, and their own personal and academic priorities. We believe that with better access to food, an ultimate necessity, our I&E ecosystem will improve.
 '''Project 1: Social Media'''

 

'''Tactic1.'''  Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat would be our target social media pages 

'''Tactic 2. '''Upgrade our MSU dining website to state meals of the week along with nutritional facts

'''Tactic 3.''' Internet ads

'''Tactic 4.''' Guaranteed update on Morgan State University homepage for changed dining decisions

'''Project 2: Dining Poll'''

 

'''Tactic 1.''' Allow reviews on MSU food calendar website where you can rate the meals by stars and comments

'''Tactic 2.''' Take polls of vegan/ vegetarian/ international students’ preferences

'''Tactic 3.''' Staff evaluation by students who can comment anonymously

'''Tactic 4.''' Food website has staff photos and names helping identifying who was on call if an issue occurs or if the person dining would like to give a compliment

'''Tactic 5.''' Data of desired dining hours

 

'''Project 3: Desired Dining Hours'''

 

'''Tactic 1. '''Collect data of high volumes of dining swipes 

'''Tactic 2.''' Push for these hours; given a students perspective. Breakfast 7:00am-10:30am, Lunch 11:00am- 3:30pm, Snack Shop 3:30pm- 4:30pm, Dinner 6:00pm- 10:00pm

 

'''Project 4: Convenience Store'''



'''Tactic 1.''' Increase late night security 

'''Tactic 2.''' Put money on bear card to pay for products in store (Benny Bucks)

'''Tactic 3.''' Non-food products can be purchased with Benny Bucks (ex: school supplies, contraceptives, toiletries, event tickets, parking tickets etc.)

'''Tactic 4'''. Push for operation hours 8:00pm- 1:00am

'''Tactic 5.''' Ticket station (students will be able to purchase event tickets and pay for parking. It will be bear card accessible only)

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Oyare%20Victor%20Oko Oyare Victor Oko]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sumayyah%20Raji Sumayyah Raji]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Evan%20Robertson Evan Robertson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Averi%20Turner Averi M. Turner]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

Fall 2016 Fellows:

''Leadership Circle 1:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

''Leadership Circle 2:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

''Leadership Circle 3: ''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

''Leadership Circle 4:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

''Leadership Circle 5:''

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

Spring 2016 Fellows:

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

Fall 2015 Fellows:

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

Fall 2014 Fellow:

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

Fall 2013 Fellow:

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jamie Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|m]]

Priorities:Morgan State University Student Priorities

2018-10-05T14:49:49Z

Wanjihiam16:

= Overview =

Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service, and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society.

= Project Pitch Videos =

Spring 2018 Video: [https://youtu.be/-Q8FQRLs-20 Video Link]

= Strategic Priorities =
Strategic Priority #1'''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSU Innovation Milestone / Plans''' <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF students of 2019 will create a Innovative 5 year plans approved by the University President and molded by the university faculty and students of how we  will promote innovation changes.This plan will be tailored with student and faculty feedback of ideas to innovate and improve the quality and lifestyle at Morgan State University. Similar President Wilson Strategic Plan we will write and outline the goals we strive for along. We will reach out to each school on the campus and agree which initiatives will be apart of the first year milestones and then evaluate our progress and how the next years initiatives will follow. For instance, many of the foreign language teacher want to promote a language day to encourage clubs and organization where they enjoy   variety of foods and practice linguistic skills. We could incorporate into the morgan calendar with faculty approval and coordination and eventually add this to the culture day we host. Overall this one milestone would be similar to a open house but for linguistics and this would be one of the goals we set for year one. [http://issuu.com/morganstateu/docs/strategicplan2011-21_final?e=2119971/60089621 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Msu Strategic Planning] <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #2<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morg-avate <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To implement a more innovative and growing Morgan State University community, it is essential to reach out to other schools in the area and even other community members to increase the amount of collaboration and integration of ideas at our school and within our community. Morgan needs to build long lasting relationships with other schools and the community to expand its innovative and collaborative culture. Schools such as: Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Coppin State University, and Loyola are close to Morgan, and having collaborative events with them where we have educational sessions about different innovative projects or challenges would be a great way to promote innovation in our community and expand past Morgan to other schools with different backgrounds and ideas. Having an event held over the span of a weekend where students from different majors, schools, and backgrounds could come together and learn design thinking techniques from experts and then actually apply those techniques in a competition or design thinking challenge would be great for students to really get hands on experience. This could include inspirational talks, design thinking sessions, and an allotted time where people with similar interests or passions no matter their major in school can group together to work towards coming up with an innovative solution to the challenge with a prize of some sort.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #3<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni & Student Engagement<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on our research, Alumni to student relationship/engagement is capable of improving innovation and entrepreneurship among students significantly but we noticed that this has not been utilized to its maximum potential in our school right now. We plan to set up and organize mentoring programs that would consists of several alumnis from different majors, in order to create opportunities for several students who would love to be mentored by people as experienced as the alumnis. This would help motivate and inspire the students to aspire higher. We would also love to make alumnis help/take part in student organizations activities in order to foster networking. The alumnis can be used as guest speakers in the student organizations or even club events in order to enlighten students about their experiences in the real world and also the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.Strategic Priority #4<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvement of the Innovative and Collaborative Culture<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To motivate students and create awareness of innovation activities and opportunities on campus as well as within the DMV area . Students at Morgan are innovators. Some students are aware of this fact others are unsure.Based on our research students want to have a more active role in decisions that impact their learning and living environment on campus . As well as sharing their ideas on how to build the Morgan community upwards. We plan to solve this problem by hosting a TED talk that will not only motivate students but also teach them how to use their skills become innovators and make the change that they want to see. The TED talk series will be discussed and organized through the TED talk club initiative which will include not only students but faculty members . This will be one of the few clubs on campus that is not solely student led. The advantage of this would be creating a joined atmosphere refuting the banking model of education which suggest that the students know nothing and the teachers know everything.<div> </div><div> </div>
Problem #1: Campus Communication

Campus Spirit is a defining character on any school’s campus. Morgan students need something to raise their dampened spirits and create a bubbly atmosphere. We realized that the real problem is students are not aware of things happening on campus.

MSU Announce is the email service that broadcasts information to students. On a daily basis, students receive about 3-5 emails relaying campus news. The volume of information received makes it hard to keep up with or filter out relevant information.

This observation led to the idea of placing electronic banners in key locations to disperse news all over campus. The banners can be used as a medium for students to advertise services, businesses, products, and events.

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Prototype Video:

Video link: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing]

Problem #2: Improving Morgan Housing

Problem:Morgan State University (MSU) has a deficit of suitable housing for students with a

desire to live on campus. This academic school year, MSU admitted its largest freshmen class

ever, resulting in a shortage of housing, classes, and food for students of all academic levels.

Solutions: 1.Purchase residential buildings in the surrounding community to increase

housing options for full-time students.

What I learned:

1. The process of finding funding for future development is very difficult.

2. The school must find funding to increase the security presence for “off-campus” housing,

as well.

3. There needs to be a manager, much like a landlord, to maintain the integrity of the

residential buildings.

What I could improve:

I could have a further detailed approach to obtaining the funds necessary to begin the project.

PROTOTYPE: A[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-vp-nlii-KFVyhyYvLDKm99XAo_Vh1m?usp=sharing <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">housing proposal]

Problem #3: Improving Morgan Food Experience

This aims to solve the food difficulty on campus. We are calling it “Bear Eats.” This is a phone application that students can use anytime to order food from restaurants close by. The driving is only open to students. While testing I learned a lot. These can be found in the Bear Eats feedback grid.

Video link: <span style="text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(57, 176, 229); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://goo.gl/LRRfnF https://goo.gl/LRRfnF]

== Encourage student Awareness and Involvement on Campus ==

The University Innovation Fellows at Morgan State University are unique because our team is composed of individuals who have different backgrounds and experiences creating an abundance of ideas and perspectives.  The team’s goal is to help bring about a change that the students want to see, and also help raise awareness and understanding of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation. Morgan State offers many useful resources but they are either limited to certain majors or most students simply do not know they exist. Our goal is to make all labs, workshops and development centers accessible to every student.

 

== Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center ==

This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.

== Incorporate Diversity Representation ==

Students participating in a Multicultural week to showcase the treasures of the underrepresented ethnicities on campus. Morgan having a large variety of international students, all cultures should be celebrated and unbiased. A brief general overview of Multicultural week: There will be a variety of events throughout the week where students can represent their countries flags, traditional attire and food. A multicultural mixer for students to music from different countries. Lastly, an day of cultural education, where students have the opportunity to teach other students on campus about their countries.

Tactic #1: Utilizing the Student Government Association and various student campus orginizations propose to the Univeristy a Mulitcultural Week.

Tactic #2: Once we have gained interest, collobarate with different cultural organizations (eg. Carribean Student Association, Latin Student Association etc.) and draft a event of weekly activities that will appeal to the student body and represent a variety of cultures on campus.

Tactic #3: Make sure we have equal amount of representation and campus paticipation and promote the weekly events on campus. Draft promotional flyers and use social media as an outlet to reach our audience. Each cultural group will aslo be expected to invite their friends and family and enjoy their music, food, and traditional clothing.

Tactic #4: Broadcast to the Morgan MILE which is the community that surrounds Morgan so that they may be involved in the cultural education. 

== Install BearBoards throughout campus. ==

To implement this project, the steps that need to be taken are:

1.   Present Idea to Stakeholders, and check the interest and support levels

2.   Ask students on campus how they would like BearBoards

3.   Come up with specific design and prototype of BearBoards

4.   Reveal the prototype to Stakeholders and possible Sponsors and Donors

5.   Begin the installation process for the BearBoards

6.   Announce the opening of the BearBoards and promote usage throughout campus.

 

== Product Development Center ==

The University Innovation Fellows plan to bring a Product Development Center to Morgan State University. This center will be a makerspace which allows students to develop prototypes. Morgan is home to many great ideas and wonderful entrepreneurs but students do not have a space to make those dreams come to fruition.

 

== Design Thinking Workshops ==

Design thinking workshops that involve both engineering and business students will be beneficial because students will collaborate ideas when working with such individuals form different fields. Mixing the two majors can have a huge impact on the university and growth of the students as well. Design thinking invokes a new process for developing answers to problems from multidimensional perspectives making it an excellent project.

Tactical #1: Research and find students and or professors who are well versed in Innovation and Design Thinking concepts to offer there time to partake in Design Thinking Workshops yearly. Coordinate with Dr. Foster a UIF Advisor who has done a Design Thinking Course to collaborate on how to approach this program at Morgan.

Tactical #2: Incorporate a trial Design Thinking Workshop open to a small sample group. This will help to gain feedback, and allow us to understand how to improve the workshops before opening to the general public.

Tactical #3: Implement improvement from feedback and open Design Thinking works shops to Morgan students of all majors and classifications.

Tactical #4: Get students interested in working towards a Maker Space. 

 

== Alumni Student Mixer ==

The disconnect between Alumni and students can be helped by incorporating the Alumni Student Mixer. The Alumni House on campus has a specific budget and council used to incorporate the connection between alumni and students. Unfortunately these resources are never used to bring the two together. An Alumni Student mixer can help bridge the gap of non-communication and open opportunities for job offers, internships for students as well as possible events to incorporate on Morgan's campus that is beneficial to the campus community.

Tactic #1: Reach out to Alumni house on campus to act as a liaison between Alumni and current student body. 

Tactic #2: Begin reaching out to Alumni introducing them to the idea and giving them ample time to schedule time with us.

Tactic #3: Work diligently with the administration in the Alumni House to solidify logistics (i.e. Location, maximum capacity, itinerary of the event, costs and materials needed, book a photographer, plan promotion tactics)

Tactic #4: Use promotion tactics as agreed between the Alumni House and our group to reach out to students on campus. In order to reach out to students, we will most likely partner with prevalent student organizations with high visibility (i.e. Student Government Association, SMOOTH Organization, National Council of Negro Women Club, etc.) to gain student body interest. Continue to promote this event to ensure great attendance.

Tactic #5: Send same promotional details to Alumni ranging from graduating Class of 1970 to the most recent graduating class. This allows a broad spectrum of Alumni that can appeal to the student body. Give Alumni ample amount of time to spread the word and to request off of work or arrange travel plans in time of event.

Tactic #6: Plan an agenda balancing fun activities (like a "Battle of the Decades" DJ competition, "Journey through time" fashion show of attire worn back when each class went to school divided by very 5 years, and a menu for attendees to be able to enjoy food). Plan engaging networking opportunities inbetween (Keynote speakers from top companies speaking to students, panel of Alumni for a professional Q&A, "Speed Interviewing"; match students with one Alumni from a top company and every 5 minutes the student would move down to the next Alumni, this would allow students to get a snapshot of the company and allows the Alumni to meet students for potential job offers (resumes and business cards would be exchanged, at the end, each would rate the other and high rankings will be paired after event)). This maximizes attendance for the current student body by attracting them with "fun" and professional development, as well as appealing to the Alumni for a walk down memory lane and an opportunity to give back to their Alma Mater. 

Tactic #7: Launch event.

== Expose more STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

'''Tactic #1-'''The provision of an Introduction to Business course for STEM majors will heavily attract the interest of these students who feel they just have to get the A's  to become well rounded.

'''Tactic #2- '''Introducing a Campus Discovery concept called Morgan Konnect where students will be able to view and leverage the [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing# Morgan State University Landscape Canvas] to Discover,Learn, Experiment, Pursue, and Spin out.

'''Tactic #3- '''Building an incubator for students who have personal projects they would like to pursue in line with technological innovation. This environment will aid the students to build a creative mindset which may be the seed of "The Next Big Thing."

== Increase Student-Driven Commercialization ==

Morgan has stated that it will "support innovation in business and the commercialization of intellectual property through growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, securing an increased number of patents, and establishing a technology transfer center to support the creation of new business and technology transfer enterprises"

'''Tactic #1: Local Tech Collaboration with incubators such as [http://etcbaltimore.com/ ETC Baltimore] and accelerators such as [http://www.juxtopia.org/about/founder/ Juxtopia]:'''

Morgan has stated that it wants to "explore public/private collaborative relationships with developers, contractors, and other commercial groups and entities to develop new environmentally-sustainable and technologically-advanced administrative and student residential facilities, to expand Morgan’s physical presence throughout the state, and to promote the state and the Morgan brand."

== Local partnerships that will expose students to industrial and entrepreneurial skills through projects designed by members of the local tech community. ==

'''Tactic #2: Redefining the terms of the intellectual property rights outline by Morgan State University:'''

Students are eager to build new technology and make changes, but as individuals who have work hard though using the resources of the college would like to believe that in the 21st century students can still receive recognition for their work. A proposal is that "any potentially patentable inventions belong to the university, and royalties are split between the inventor, his/her department and Morgan State University (1/3 each). For undergraduates, the IP is theirs, unless their work has been supported by research funds, or they have made use of shops, labs and other Morgan State University property more than incidentally."



== Morgan Konnect ==

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'''Dining at Morgan'''
 
                   After countless interviews with students, we’ve concluded that dining is the biggest issue on campus. So, as a leadership circle, we’ve decided to take on several projects that we believe would drastically improve the dining experience at Morgan in all areas. From snacks, to small groceries, to toiletries, and especially breakfast, lunch and dinner, we believe our four projects will change the dynamic of how Morgan operates. Without quality meals, the overall ecosystem at Morgan would be damaged and hinder students from innovation, entrepreneurship, and their own personal and academic priorities. We believe that with better access to food, an ultimate necessity, our I&E ecosystem will improve.
 '''Project 1: Social Media'''

 

'''Tactic1.'''  Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat would be our target social media pages 

'''Tactic 2. '''Upgrade our MSU dining website to state meals of the week along with nutritional facts

'''Tactic 3.''' Internet ads

'''Tactic 4.''' Guaranteed update on Morgan State University homepage for changed dining decisions

'''Project 2: Dining Poll'''

 

'''Tactic 1.''' Allow reviews on MSU food calendar website where you can rate the meals by stars and comments

'''Tactic 2.''' Take polls of vegan/ vegetarian/ international students’ preferences

'''Tactic 3.''' Staff evaluation by students who can comment anonymously

'''Tactic 4.''' Food website has staff photos and names helping identifying who was on call if an issue occurs or if the person dining would like to give a compliment

'''Tactic 5.''' Data of desired dining hours

 

'''Project 3: Desired Dining Hours'''

 

'''Tactic 1. '''Collect data of high volumes of dining swipes 

'''Tactic 2.''' Push for these hours; given a students perspective. Breakfast 7:00am-10:30am, Lunch 11:00am- 3:30pm, Snack Shop 3:30pm- 4:30pm, Dinner 6:00pm- 10:00pm

 

'''Project 4: Convenience Store'''



'''Tactic 1.''' Increase late night security 

'''Tactic 2.''' Put money on bear card to pay for products in store (Benny Bucks)

'''Tactic 3.''' Non-food products can be purchased with Benny Bucks (ex: school supplies, contraceptives, toiletries, event tickets, parking tickets etc.)

'''Tactic 4'''. Push for operation hours 8:00pm- 1:00am

'''Tactic 5.''' Ticket station (students will be able to purchase event tickets and pay for parking. It will be bear card accessible only)

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Oyare%20Victor%20Oko Oyare Victor Oko]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sumayyah%20Raji Sumayyah Raji]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Evan%20Robertson Evan Robertson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Averi%20Turner Averi M. Turner]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

Fall 2016 Fellows:

''Leadership Circle 1:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

''Leadership Circle 2:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

''Leadership Circle 3: ''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

''Leadership Circle 4:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

''Leadership Circle 5:''

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

Spring 2016 Fellows:

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

Fall 2015 Fellows:

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

Fall 2014 Fellow:

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

Fall 2013 Fellow:

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jamie Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|m]]

Priorities:Morgan State University Student Priorities

2018-10-05T14:48:41Z

Wanjihiam16:

= Overview =

Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service, and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society.

= Project Pitch Videos =

Spring 2018 Video: [https://youtu.be/-Q8FQRLs-20 Video Link]

= Strategic Priorities =

Strategic Priority #1

'''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSU Innovation Milestone / Plans''' <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF students of 2019 will create a Innovative 5 year plans approved by the University President and molded by the university faculty and students of how we  will promote innovation changes.This plan will be tailored with student and faculty feedback of ideas to innovate and improve the quality and lifestyle at Morgan State University. Similar President Wilson Strategic Plan we will write and outline the goals we strive for along. We will reach out to each school on the campus and agree which initiatives will be apart of the first year milestones and then evaluate our progress and how the next years initiatives will follow. For instance, many of the foreign language teacher want to promote a language day to encourage clubs and organization where they enjoy   variety of foods and practice linguistic skills. We could incorporate into the morgan calendar with faculty approval and coordination and eventually add this to the culture day we host. Overall this one milestone would be similar to a open house but for linguistics and this would be one of the goals we set for year one. [http://issuu.com/morganstateu/docs/strategicplan2011-21_final?e=2119971/60089621 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Msu Strategic Planning]

 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #2

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morg-avate <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To implement a more innovative and growing Morgan State University community, it is essential to reach out to other schools in the area and even other community members to increase the amount of collaboration and integration of ideas at our school and within our community. Morgan needs to build long lasting relationships with other schools and the community to expand its innovative and collaborative culture. Schools such as: Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Coppin State University, and Loyola are close to Morgan, and having collaborative events with them where we have educational sessions about different innovative projects or challenges would be a great way to promote innovation in our community and expand past Morgan to other schools with different backgrounds and ideas. Having an event held over the span of a weekend where students from different majors, schools, and backgrounds could come together and learn design thinking techniques from experts and then actually apply those techniques in a competition or design thinking challenge would be great for students to really get hands on experience. This could include inspirational talks, design thinking sessions, and an allotted time where people with similar interests or passions no matter their major in school can group together to work towards coming up with an innovative solution to the challenge with a prize of some sort.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #3

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni & Student Engagement

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on our research, Alumni to student relationship/engagement is capable of improving innovation and entrepreneurship among students significantly but we noticed that this has not been utilized to its maximum potential in our school right now. We plan to set up and organize mentoring programs that would consists of several alumnis from different majors, in order to create opportunities for several students who would love to be mentored by people as experienced as the alumnis. This would help motivate and inspire the students to aspire higher. We would also love to make alumnis help/take part in student organizations activities in order to foster networking. The alumnis can be used as guest speakers in the student organizations or even club events in order to enlighten students about their experiences in the real world and also the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

Strategic Priority #4

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvement of the Innovative and Collaborative Culture

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To motivate students and create awareness of innovation activities and opportunities on campus as well as within the DMV area . Students at Morgan are innovators. Some students are aware of this fact others are unsure.Based on our research students want to have a more active role in decisions that impact their learning and living environment on campus . As well as sharing their ideas on how to build the Morgan community upwards. We plan to solve this problem by hosting a TED talk that will not only motivate students but also teach them how to use their skills become innovators and make the change that they want to see. The TED talk series will be discussed and organized through the TED talk club initiative which will include not only students but faculty members . This will be one of the few clubs on campus that is not solely student led. The advantage of this would be creating a joined atmosphere refuting the banking model of education which suggest that the students know nothing and the teachers know everything.
<div> </div><div> </div>
Problem #1: Campus Communication

Campus Spirit is a defining character on any school’s campus. Morgan students need something to raise their dampened spirits and create a bubbly atmosphere. We realized that the real problem is students are not aware of things happening on campus.

MSU Announce is the email service that broadcasts information to students. On a daily basis, students receive about 3-5 emails relaying campus news. The volume of information received makes it hard to keep up with or filter out relevant information.

This observation led to the idea of placing electronic banners in key locations to disperse news all over campus. The banners can be used as a medium for students to advertise services, businesses, products, and events.

——

Prototype Video:

Video link: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing]

Problem #2: Improving Morgan Housing

Problem:Morgan State University (MSU) has a deficit of suitable housing for students with a

desire to live on campus. This academic school year, MSU admitted its largest freshmen class

ever, resulting in a shortage of housing, classes, and food for students of all academic levels.

Solutions: 1.Purchase residential buildings in the surrounding community to increase

housing options for full-time students.

What I learned:

1. The process of finding funding for future development is very difficult.

2. The school must find funding to increase the security presence for “off-campus” housing,

as well.

3. There needs to be a manager, much like a landlord, to maintain the integrity of the

residential buildings.

What I could improve:

I could have a further detailed approach to obtaining the funds necessary to begin the project.

PROTOTYPE: A[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-vp-nlii-KFVyhyYvLDKm99XAo_Vh1m?usp=sharing <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">housing proposal]

Problem #3: Improving Morgan Food Experience

This aims to solve the food difficulty on campus. We are calling it “Bear Eats.” This is a phone application that students can use anytime to order food from restaurants close by. The driving is only open to students. While testing I learned a lot. These can be found in the Bear Eats feedback grid.

Video link: <span style="text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(57, 176, 229); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://goo.gl/LRRfnF https://goo.gl/LRRfnF]

== Encourage student Awareness and Involvement on Campus ==

The University Innovation Fellows at Morgan State University are unique because our team is composed of individuals who have different backgrounds and experiences creating an abundance of ideas and perspectives.  The team’s goal is to help bring about a change that the students want to see, and also help raise awareness and understanding of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation. Morgan State offers many useful resources but they are either limited to certain majors or most students simply do not know they exist. Our goal is to make all labs, workshops and development centers accessible to every student.

 

== Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center ==

This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.

== Incorporate Diversity Representation ==

Students participating in a Multicultural week to showcase the treasures of the underrepresented ethnicities on campus. Morgan having a large variety of international students, all cultures should be celebrated and unbiased. A brief general overview of Multicultural week: There will be a variety of events throughout the week where students can represent their countries flags, traditional attire and food. A multicultural mixer for students to music from different countries. Lastly, an day of cultural education, where students have the opportunity to teach other students on campus about their countries.

Tactic #1: Utilizing the Student Government Association and various student campus orginizations propose to the Univeristy a Mulitcultural Week.

Tactic #2: Once we have gained interest, collobarate with different cultural organizations (eg. Carribean Student Association, Latin Student Association etc.) and draft a event of weekly activities that will appeal to the student body and represent a variety of cultures on campus.

Tactic #3: Make sure we have equal amount of representation and campus paticipation and promote the weekly events on campus. Draft promotional flyers and use social media as an outlet to reach our audience. Each cultural group will aslo be expected to invite their friends and family and enjoy their music, food, and traditional clothing.

Tactic #4: Broadcast to the Morgan MILE which is the community that surrounds Morgan so that they may be involved in the cultural education. 

== Install BearBoards throughout campus. ==

To implement this project, the steps that need to be taken are:

1.   Present Idea to Stakeholders, and check the interest and support levels

2.   Ask students on campus how they would like BearBoards

3.   Come up with specific design and prototype of BearBoards

4.   Reveal the prototype to Stakeholders and possible Sponsors and Donors

5.   Begin the installation process for the BearBoards

6.   Announce the opening of the BearBoards and promote usage throughout campus.

 

== Product Development Center ==

The University Innovation Fellows plan to bring a Product Development Center to Morgan State University. This center will be a makerspace which allows students to develop prototypes. Morgan is home to many great ideas and wonderful entrepreneurs but students do not have a space to make those dreams come to fruition.

 

== Design Thinking Workshops ==

Design thinking workshops that involve both engineering and business students will be beneficial because students will collaborate ideas when working with such individuals form different fields. Mixing the two majors can have a huge impact on the university and growth of the students as well. Design thinking invokes a new process for developing answers to problems from multidimensional perspectives making it an excellent project.

Tactical #1: Research and find students and or professors who are well versed in Innovation and Design Thinking concepts to offer there time to partake in Design Thinking Workshops yearly. Coordinate with Dr. Foster a UIF Advisor who has done a Design Thinking Course to collaborate on how to approach this program at Morgan.

Tactical #2: Incorporate a trial Design Thinking Workshop open to a small sample group. This will help to gain feedback, and allow us to understand how to improve the workshops before opening to the general public.

Tactical #3: Implement improvement from feedback and open Design Thinking works shops to Morgan students of all majors and classifications.

Tactical #4: Get students interested in working towards a Maker Space. 

 

== Alumni Student Mixer ==

The disconnect between Alumni and students can be helped by incorporating the Alumni Student Mixer. The Alumni House on campus has a specific budget and council used to incorporate the connection between alumni and students. Unfortunately these resources are never used to bring the two together. An Alumni Student mixer can help bridge the gap of non-communication and open opportunities for job offers, internships for students as well as possible events to incorporate on Morgan's campus that is beneficial to the campus community.

Tactic #1: Reach out to Alumni house on campus to act as a liaison between Alumni and current student body. 

Tactic #2: Begin reaching out to Alumni introducing them to the idea and giving them ample time to schedule time with us.

Tactic #3: Work diligently with the administration in the Alumni House to solidify logistics (i.e. Location, maximum capacity, itinerary of the event, costs and materials needed, book a photographer, plan promotion tactics)

Tactic #4: Use promotion tactics as agreed between the Alumni House and our group to reach out to students on campus. In order to reach out to students, we will most likely partner with prevalent student organizations with high visibility (i.e. Student Government Association, SMOOTH Organization, National Council of Negro Women Club, etc.) to gain student body interest. Continue to promote this event to ensure great attendance.

Tactic #5: Send same promotional details to Alumni ranging from graduating Class of 1970 to the most recent graduating class. This allows a broad spectrum of Alumni that can appeal to the student body. Give Alumni ample amount of time to spread the word and to request off of work or arrange travel plans in time of event.

Tactic #6: Plan an agenda balancing fun activities (like a "Battle of the Decades" DJ competition, "Journey through time" fashion show of attire worn back when each class went to school divided by very 5 years, and a menu for attendees to be able to enjoy food). Plan engaging networking opportunities inbetween (Keynote speakers from top companies speaking to students, panel of Alumni for a professional Q&A, "Speed Interviewing"; match students with one Alumni from a top company and every 5 minutes the student would move down to the next Alumni, this would allow students to get a snapshot of the company and allows the Alumni to meet students for potential job offers (resumes and business cards would be exchanged, at the end, each would rate the other and high rankings will be paired after event)). This maximizes attendance for the current student body by attracting them with "fun" and professional development, as well as appealing to the Alumni for a walk down memory lane and an opportunity to give back to their Alma Mater. 

Tactic #7: Launch event.

== Expose more STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

'''Tactic #1-'''The provision of an Introduction to Business course for STEM majors will heavily attract the interest of these students who feel they just have to get the A's  to become well rounded.

'''Tactic #2- '''Introducing a Campus Discovery concept called Morgan Konnect where students will be able to view and leverage the [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing# Morgan State University Landscape Canvas] to Discover,Learn, Experiment, Pursue, and Spin out.

'''Tactic #3- '''Building an incubator for students who have personal projects they would like to pursue in line with technological innovation. This environment will aid the students to build a creative mindset which may be the seed of "The Next Big Thing."

== Increase Student-Driven Commercialization ==

Morgan has stated that it will "support innovation in business and the commercialization of intellectual property through growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, securing an increased number of patents, and establishing a technology transfer center to support the creation of new business and technology transfer enterprises"

'''Tactic #1: Local Tech Collaboration with incubators such as [http://etcbaltimore.com/ ETC Baltimore] and accelerators such as [http://www.juxtopia.org/about/founder/ Juxtopia]:'''

Morgan has stated that it wants to "explore public/private collaborative relationships with developers, contractors, and other commercial groups and entities to develop new environmentally-sustainable and technologically-advanced administrative and student residential facilities, to expand Morgan’s physical presence throughout the state, and to promote the state and the Morgan brand."

== Local partnerships that will expose students to industrial and entrepreneurial skills through projects designed by members of the local tech community. ==

'''Tactic #2: Redefining the terms of the intellectual property rights outline by Morgan State University:'''

Students are eager to build new technology and make changes, but as individuals who have work hard though using the resources of the college would like to believe that in the 21st century students can still receive recognition for their work. A proposal is that "any potentially patentable inventions belong to the university, and royalties are split between the inventor, his/her department and Morgan State University (1/3 each). For undergraduates, the IP is theirs, unless their work has been supported by research funds, or they have made use of shops, labs and other Morgan State University property more than incidentally."



== Morgan Konnect ==

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'''Dining at Morgan'''
 
                   After countless interviews with students, we’ve concluded that dining is the biggest issue on campus. So, as a leadership circle, we’ve decided to take on several projects that we believe would drastically improve the dining experience at Morgan in all areas. From snacks, to small groceries, to toiletries, and especially breakfast, lunch and dinner, we believe our four projects will change the dynamic of how Morgan operates. Without quality meals, the overall ecosystem at Morgan would be damaged and hinder students from innovation, entrepreneurship, and their own personal and academic priorities. We believe that with better access to food, an ultimate necessity, our I&E ecosystem will improve.
 '''Project 1: Social Media'''

 

'''Tactic1.'''  Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat would be our target social media pages 

'''Tactic 2. '''Upgrade our MSU dining website to state meals of the week along with nutritional facts

'''Tactic 3.''' Internet ads

'''Tactic 4.''' Guaranteed update on Morgan State University homepage for changed dining decisions

'''Project 2: Dining Poll'''

 

'''Tactic 1.''' Allow reviews on MSU food calendar website where you can rate the meals by stars and comments

'''Tactic 2.''' Take polls of vegan/ vegetarian/ international students’ preferences

'''Tactic 3.''' Staff evaluation by students who can comment anonymously

'''Tactic 4.''' Food website has staff photos and names helping identifying who was on call if an issue occurs or if the person dining would like to give a compliment

'''Tactic 5.''' Data of desired dining hours

 

'''Project 3: Desired Dining Hours'''

 

'''Tactic 1. '''Collect data of high volumes of dining swipes 

'''Tactic 2.''' Push for these hours; given a students perspective. Breakfast 7:00am-10:30am, Lunch 11:00am- 3:30pm, Snack Shop 3:30pm- 4:30pm, Dinner 6:00pm- 10:00pm

 

'''Project 4: Convenience Store'''



'''Tactic 1.''' Increase late night security 

'''Tactic 2.''' Put money on bear card to pay for products in store (Benny Bucks)

'''Tactic 3.''' Non-food products can be purchased with Benny Bucks (ex: school supplies, contraceptives, toiletries, event tickets, parking tickets etc.)

'''Tactic 4'''. Push for operation hours 8:00pm- 1:00am

'''Tactic 5.''' Ticket station (students will be able to purchase event tickets and pay for parking. It will be bear card accessible only)

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Oyare%20Victor%20Oko Oyare Victor Oko]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sumayyah%20Raji Sumayyah Raji]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Evan%20Robertson Evan Robertson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Averi%20Turner Averi M. Turner]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

Fall 2016 Fellows:

''Leadership Circle 1:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

''Leadership Circle 2:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

''Leadership Circle 3: ''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

''Leadership Circle 4:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

''Leadership Circle 5:''

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

Spring 2016 Fellows:

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

Fall 2015 Fellows:

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

Fall 2014 Fellow:

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

Fall 2013 Fellow:

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jamie Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|m]]

Priorities:Morgan State University Student Priorities

2018-10-05T14:46:45Z

Wanjihiam16:

= Overview =

Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service, and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society.

= Project Pitch Videos =

Spring 2018 Video: [https://youtu.be/-Q8FQRLs-20 Video Link]

= Strategic Priorities =

Strategic Priority #1

'''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSU Innovation Milestone / Plans'''
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF students of 2019 will create a Innovative 5 year plans approved by the University President and molded by the university faculty and students of how we  will promote innovation changes.This plan will be tailored with student and faculty feedback of ideas to innovate and improve the quality and lifestyle at Morgan State University. Similar President Wilson Strategic Plan we will write and outline the goals we strive for along. We will reach out to each school on the campus and agree which initiatives will be apart of the first year milestones and then evaluate our progress and how the next years initiatives will follow. For instance, many of the foreign language teacher want to promote a language day to encourage clubs and organization where they enjoy   variety of foods and practice linguistic skills. We could incorporate into the morgan calendar with faculty approval and coordination and eventually add this to the culture day we host. Overall this one milestone would be similar to a open house but for linguistics and this would be one of the goals we set for year one.
 
[http://issuu.com/morganstateu/docs/strategicplan2011-21_final?e=2119971/60089621 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Msu Strategic Planning]
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #2

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morg-avate
 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To implement a more innovative and growing Morgan State University community, it is essential to reach out to other schools in the area and even other community members to increase the amount of collaboration and integration of ideas at our school and within our community. Morgan needs to build long lasting relationships with other schools and the community to expand its innovative and collaborative culture. Schools such as: Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Coppin State University, and Loyola are close to Morgan, and having collaborative events with them where we have educational sessions about different innovative projects or challenges would be a great way to promote innovation in our community and expand past Morgan to other schools with different backgrounds and ideas. Having an event held over the span of a weekend where students from different majors, schools, and backgrounds could come together and learn design thinking techniques from experts and then actually apply those techniques in a competition or design thinking challenge would be great for students to really get hands on experience. This could include inspirational talks, design thinking sessions, and an allotted time where people with similar interests or passions no matter their major in school can group together to work towards coming up with an innovative solution to the challenge with a prize of some sort.

 
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #3

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni & Student Engagement

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on our research, Alumni to student relationship/engagement is capable of improving innovation and entrepreneurship among students significantly but we noticed that this has not been utilized to its maximum potential in our school right now. We plan to set up and organize mentoring programs that would consists of several alumnis from different majors, in order to create opportunities for several students who would love to be mentored by people as experienced as the alumnis. This would help motivate and inspire the students to aspire higher. We would also love to make alumnis help/take part in student organizations activities in order to foster networking. The alumnis can be used as guest speakers in the student organizations or even club events in order to enlighten students about their experiences in the real world and also the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Priority #4

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvement of the Innovative and Collaborative Culture

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To motivate students and create awareness of innovation activities and opportunities on campus as well as within the DMV area . Students at Morgan are innovators. Some students are aware of this fact others are unsure.Based on our research students want to have a more active role in decisions that impact their learning and living environment on campus . As well as sharing their ideas on how to build the Morgan community upwards. We plan to solve this problem by hosting a TED talk that will not only motivate students but also teach them how to use their skills become innovators and make the change that they want to see. The TED talk series will be discussed and organized through the TED talk club initiative which will include not only students but faculty members . This will be one of the few clubs on campus that is not solely student led. The advantage of this would be creating a joined atmosphere refuting the banking model of education which suggest that the students know nothing and the teachers know everything.
<div> </div><div> </div>
Problem #1: Campus Communication

Campus Spirit is a defining character on any school’s campus. Morgan students need something to raise their dampened spirits and create a bubbly atmosphere. We realized that the real problem is students are not aware of things happening on campus.

MSU Announce is the email service that broadcasts information to students. On a daily basis, students receive about 3-5 emails relaying campus news. The volume of information received makes it hard to keep up with or filter out relevant information.

This observation led to the idea of placing electronic banners in key locations to disperse news all over campus. The banners can be used as a medium for students to advertise services, businesses, products, and events.

——

Prototype Video:

Video link: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PglWFK-f2wggDgbpUCgdZxwLKpvB6uiJ/view?usp=sharing]

Problem #2: Improving Morgan Housing

Problem:Morgan State University (MSU) has a deficit of suitable housing for students with a

desire to live on campus. This academic school year, MSU admitted its largest freshmen class

ever, resulting in a shortage of housing, classes, and food for students of all academic levels.

Solutions: 1.Purchase residential buildings in the surrounding community to increase

housing options for full-time students.

What I learned:

1. The process of finding funding for future development is very difficult.

2. The school must find funding to increase the security presence for “off-campus” housing,

as well.

3. There needs to be a manager, much like a landlord, to maintain the integrity of the

residential buildings.

What I could improve:

I could have a further detailed approach to obtaining the funds necessary to begin the project.

PROTOTYPE: A[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-vp-nlii-KFVyhyYvLDKm99XAo_Vh1m?usp=sharing <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">housing proposal]

Problem #3: Improving Morgan Food Experience

This aims to solve the food difficulty on campus. We are calling it “Bear Eats.” This is a phone application that students can use anytime to order food from restaurants close by. The driving is only open to students. While testing I learned a lot. These can be found in the Bear Eats feedback grid.

Video link: <span style="text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(57, 176, 229); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://goo.gl/LRRfnF https://goo.gl/LRRfnF]

== Encourage student Awareness and Involvement on Campus ==

The University Innovation Fellows at Morgan State University are unique because our team is composed of individuals who have different backgrounds and experiences creating an abundance of ideas and perspectives.  The team’s goal is to help bring about a change that the students want to see, and also help raise awareness and understanding of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation. Morgan State offers many useful resources but they are either limited to certain majors or most students simply do not know they exist. Our goal is to make all labs, workshops and development centers accessible to every student.

 

== Create an Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Center ==

This premier urban innovation center will foster creativity, improve entrepreneurial skill sets, and increase interdisciplinary collaborations. It will include a skills lab for learning hard skills. Weekly tech tutorials and workshops will also be given in this space.

== Incorporate Diversity Representation ==

Students participating in a Multicultural week to showcase the treasures of the underrepresented ethnicities on campus. Morgan having a large variety of international students, all cultures should be celebrated and unbiased. A brief general overview of Multicultural week: There will be a variety of events throughout the week where students can represent their countries flags, traditional attire and food. A multicultural mixer for students to music from different countries. Lastly, an day of cultural education, where students have the opportunity to teach other students on campus about their countries.

Tactic #1: Utilizing the Student Government Association and various student campus orginizations propose to the Univeristy a Mulitcultural Week.

Tactic #2: Once we have gained interest, collobarate with different cultural organizations (eg. Carribean Student Association, Latin Student Association etc.) and draft a event of weekly activities that will appeal to the student body and represent a variety of cultures on campus.

Tactic #3: Make sure we have equal amount of representation and campus paticipation and promote the weekly events on campus. Draft promotional flyers and use social media as an outlet to reach our audience. Each cultural group will aslo be expected to invite their friends and family and enjoy their music, food, and traditional clothing.

Tactic #4: Broadcast to the Morgan MILE which is the community that surrounds Morgan so that they may be involved in the cultural education. 

== Install BearBoards throughout campus. ==

To implement this project, the steps that need to be taken are:

1.   Present Idea to Stakeholders, and check the interest and support levels

2.   Ask students on campus how they would like BearBoards

3.   Come up with specific design and prototype of BearBoards

4.   Reveal the prototype to Stakeholders and possible Sponsors and Donors

5.   Begin the installation process for the BearBoards

6.   Announce the opening of the BearBoards and promote usage throughout campus.

 

== Product Development Center ==

The University Innovation Fellows plan to bring a Product Development Center to Morgan State University. This center will be a makerspace which allows students to develop prototypes. Morgan is home to many great ideas and wonderful entrepreneurs but students do not have a space to make those dreams come to fruition.

 

== Design Thinking Workshops ==

Design thinking workshops that involve both engineering and business students will be beneficial because students will collaborate ideas when working with such individuals form different fields. Mixing the two majors can have a huge impact on the university and growth of the students as well. Design thinking invokes a new process for developing answers to problems from multidimensional perspectives making it an excellent project.

Tactical #1: Research and find students and or professors who are well versed in Innovation and Design Thinking concepts to offer there time to partake in Design Thinking Workshops yearly. Coordinate with Dr. Foster a UIF Advisor who has done a Design Thinking Course to collaborate on how to approach this program at Morgan.

Tactical #2: Incorporate a trial Design Thinking Workshop open to a small sample group. This will help to gain feedback, and allow us to understand how to improve the workshops before opening to the general public.

Tactical #3: Implement improvement from feedback and open Design Thinking works shops to Morgan students of all majors and classifications.

Tactical #4: Get students interested in working towards a Maker Space. 

 

== Alumni Student Mixer ==

The disconnect between Alumni and students can be helped by incorporating the Alumni Student Mixer. The Alumni House on campus has a specific budget and council used to incorporate the connection between alumni and students. Unfortunately these resources are never used to bring the two together. An Alumni Student mixer can help bridge the gap of non-communication and open opportunities for job offers, internships for students as well as possible events to incorporate on Morgan's campus that is beneficial to the campus community.

Tactic #1: Reach out to Alumni house on campus to act as a liaison between Alumni and current student body. 

Tactic #2: Begin reaching out to Alumni introducing them to the idea and giving them ample time to schedule time with us.

Tactic #3: Work diligently with the administration in the Alumni House to solidify logistics (i.e. Location, maximum capacity, itinerary of the event, costs and materials needed, book a photographer, plan promotion tactics)

Tactic #4: Use promotion tactics as agreed between the Alumni House and our group to reach out to students on campus. In order to reach out to students, we will most likely partner with prevalent student organizations with high visibility (i.e. Student Government Association, SMOOTH Organization, National Council of Negro Women Club, etc.) to gain student body interest. Continue to promote this event to ensure great attendance.

Tactic #5: Send same promotional details to Alumni ranging from graduating Class of 1970 to the most recent graduating class. This allows a broad spectrum of Alumni that can appeal to the student body. Give Alumni ample amount of time to spread the word and to request off of work or arrange travel plans in time of event.

Tactic #6: Plan an agenda balancing fun activities (like a "Battle of the Decades" DJ competition, "Journey through time" fashion show of attire worn back when each class went to school divided by very 5 years, and a menu for attendees to be able to enjoy food). Plan engaging networking opportunities inbetween (Keynote speakers from top companies speaking to students, panel of Alumni for a professional Q&A, "Speed Interviewing"; match students with one Alumni from a top company and every 5 minutes the student would move down to the next Alumni, this would allow students to get a snapshot of the company and allows the Alumni to meet students for potential job offers (resumes and business cards would be exchanged, at the end, each would rate the other and high rankings will be paired after event)). This maximizes attendance for the current student body by attracting them with "fun" and professional development, as well as appealing to the Alumni for a walk down memory lane and an opportunity to give back to their Alma Mater. 

Tactic #7: Launch event.

== Expose more STEM students to Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

'''Tactic #1-'''The provision of an Introduction to Business course for STEM majors will heavily attract the interest of these students who feel they just have to get the A's  to become well rounded.

'''Tactic #2- '''Introducing a Campus Discovery concept called Morgan Konnect where students will be able to view and leverage the [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing# Morgan State University Landscape Canvas] to Discover,Learn, Experiment, Pursue, and Spin out.

'''Tactic #3- '''Building an incubator for students who have personal projects they would like to pursue in line with technological innovation. This environment will aid the students to build a creative mindset which may be the seed of "The Next Big Thing."

== Increase Student-Driven Commercialization ==

Morgan has stated that it will "support innovation in business and the commercialization of intellectual property through growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, securing an increased number of patents, and establishing a technology transfer center to support the creation of new business and technology transfer enterprises"

'''Tactic #1: Local Tech Collaboration with incubators such as [http://etcbaltimore.com/ ETC Baltimore] and accelerators such as [http://www.juxtopia.org/about/founder/ Juxtopia]:'''

Morgan has stated that it wants to "explore public/private collaborative relationships with developers, contractors, and other commercial groups and entities to develop new environmentally-sustainable and technologically-advanced administrative and student residential facilities, to expand Morgan’s physical presence throughout the state, and to promote the state and the Morgan brand."

== Local partnerships that will expose students to industrial and entrepreneurial skills through projects designed by members of the local tech community. ==

'''Tactic #2: Redefining the terms of the intellectual property rights outline by Morgan State University:'''

Students are eager to build new technology and make changes, but as individuals who have work hard though using the resources of the college would like to believe that in the 21st century students can still receive recognition for their work. A proposal is that "any potentially patentable inventions belong to the university, and royalties are split between the inventor, his/her department and Morgan State University (1/3 each). For undergraduates, the IP is theirs, unless their work has been supported by research funds, or they have made use of shops, labs and other Morgan State University property more than incidentally."



== Morgan Konnect ==

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'''Dining at Morgan'''
 
                   After countless interviews with students, we’ve concluded that dining is the biggest issue on campus. So, as a leadership circle, we’ve decided to take on several projects that we believe would drastically improve the dining experience at Morgan in all areas. From snacks, to small groceries, to toiletries, and especially breakfast, lunch and dinner, we believe our four projects will change the dynamic of how Morgan operates. Without quality meals, the overall ecosystem at Morgan would be damaged and hinder students from innovation, entrepreneurship, and their own personal and academic priorities. We believe that with better access to food, an ultimate necessity, our I&E ecosystem will improve.
 '''Project 1: Social Media'''

 

'''Tactic1.'''  Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat would be our target social media pages 

'''Tactic 2. '''Upgrade our MSU dining website to state meals of the week along with nutritional facts

'''Tactic 3.''' Internet ads

'''Tactic 4.''' Guaranteed update on Morgan State University homepage for changed dining decisions

'''Project 2: Dining Poll'''

 

'''Tactic 1.''' Allow reviews on MSU food calendar website where you can rate the meals by stars and comments

'''Tactic 2.''' Take polls of vegan/ vegetarian/ international students’ preferences

'''Tactic 3.''' Staff evaluation by students who can comment anonymously

'''Tactic 4.''' Food website has staff photos and names helping identifying who was on call if an issue occurs or if the person dining would like to give a compliment

'''Tactic 5.''' Data of desired dining hours

 

'''Project 3: Desired Dining Hours'''

 

'''Tactic 1. '''Collect data of high volumes of dining swipes 

'''Tactic 2.''' Push for these hours; given a students perspective. Breakfast 7:00am-10:30am, Lunch 11:00am- 3:30pm, Snack Shop 3:30pm- 4:30pm, Dinner 6:00pm- 10:00pm

 

'''Project 4: Convenience Store'''



'''Tactic 1.''' Increase late night security 

'''Tactic 2.''' Put money on bear card to pay for products in store (Benny Bucks)

'''Tactic 3.''' Non-food products can be purchased with Benny Bucks (ex: school supplies, contraceptives, toiletries, event tickets, parking tickets etc.)

'''Tactic 4'''. Push for operation hours 8:00pm- 1:00am

'''Tactic 5.''' Ticket station (students will be able to purchase event tickets and pay for parking. It will be bear card accessible only)

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

Spring 2018 Fellows:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Oyare%20Victor%20Oko Oyare Victor Oko]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Sumayyah%20Raji Sumayyah Raji]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Evan%20Robertson Evan Robertson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Averi%20Turner Averi M. Turner]

Spring 2017 Fellows:

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

Fall 2016 Fellows:

''Leadership Circle 1:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

''Leadership Circle 2:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

''Leadership Circle 3: ''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

''Leadership Circle 4:''

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

''Leadership Circle 5:''

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

Spring 2016 Fellows:

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

Fall 2015 Fellows:

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

Fall 2014 Fellow:

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

Fall 2013 Fellow:

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jamie Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|m]]

School:Morgan State University

2018-09-28T00:34:30Z

Wanjihiam16:

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Founded in 1867, Morgan State University is a Carnegie classified Doctoral Research Institution offering more than 70 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the masters and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible.

= Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

The Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Morgan State University-Interview with Dr. Singh By Adrien Feudjio

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= Student Research Opportunities =

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= Campus Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan At A Glance*

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University, a coeducational institution, is located in a residential section of Baltimore, Maryland. The campus covers an area of more than 143 acres. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University offers a comprehensive range of academic programs through the doctorate. Morgan is also a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution of higher education. See the Nondiscrimination Policy. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By action of the Maryland Legislature, the University has been designated as Maryland's Public Urban University, with the responsibility of addressing the needs of residents, schools, and organizations within the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Morgan State University is located in a residential area of northeast Baltimore City. It is easily accessible from downtown, the Baltimore beltway, and Interstate 95. Each year, the school enrolls an average of 7,700 students in programs from the baccalaureate level through the doctorate.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Morgan State, our leadership circle has dug deep and found that students have aspirations and dreams of starting their own  businesses. The Morgan State Landscape Canvas provides sufficient amount of programs and seminars to get students on campus aware of entrepreneurship and innovative thinking. The issue on campus is students don’t feel empowered enough to voice their opinions. There’s a lack of interdisciplinary spaces that let students from different backgrounds come together and collaborate ideas and projects. The labs and facilities our school has are exclusive and only a few know about the resources. Morgan State is an HBCU, a school with strong culture and traditions. The students here have a different ways of learning and progressing within the academic curriculum. We need to develop an effective approach to get students involved and gear them towards an innovative mindset. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at Morgan are interested and willing to  help promote innovation and entrepreneurship into the Morgan ecosystem.The President, Dr. David Wilson, has voiced his support on the I&E movement; “I am truly excited with the innovation culture that is engulfing the campus and want to do everything I can to support and encourage it”. Encouraged faculty will subsequently strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship mindset in the teachers’ students. The vision will be shared and students will start to understand what it's all about. Dr. Archibald, from the Social Work Department, has stated that this movement is very important to him, and has some ideas on how to speed up this movement. Keeping in mind that Morgan State is an overall commuter school, we should make resources accessible for all students with hours that are convenient for all. Most of the commuter students have heavy schedules and are balancing full-time work schedules while having part-time or full-time course loads. The faculty will be a big part of this movement, because they can help articulate and help voice important student issues.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''The Office of Technology Transfer here at Morgan State University is a key tool that supports all entrepreneurs and innovators that have copyright needs or patents. They support all faculty and students that partake in research within the labs and facilities. They focus on intellectual property issues that may be concerning an individual. The purpose of The Office of Technology Transfer isto serve as a fully integrated center, structured to manage Morgan State’s intellectual property, fulfill the university's federal obligations, interact with industry to commercialize university intellectual property, foster economic development, and ultimately increase Morgan State’s resources to support its strategic goals. This office needs to operate at its highest level at all times. The students and researchers need to know all the rules and regulations to take their creations and discoveries to the industry smoothly and properly, and with the help of the Office of Technology Transfer, Morgan State can accomplish that. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The step from gathering your findings within a campus and getting it fine tuned to present to the industry is not an easy task, and requires the right tools and mentoring for a successful launch in the industry world. Morgan provides a few options to students who need help making the transition into the industry. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy focuses on supporting  start-up entrepreneurs in getting the right advice and helping with longevity and success. Director, Robert Singh, PhD., who is apart of this big movement, is a big believer in inclusive entrepreneurship and would like to make incubators for young entrepreneurs and training. The Earl G. Graves Business Building, which is the newest addition at MSU, will be the location of many of these spaces and tools. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory  (PEARL) is to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development. This is the biggest partnership Morgan (since 2004) has that focuses on bettering the community by research and findings based on the community needs. It is located near the Patuxent River in Saint Leonard, Maryland. The laboratory capabilities include Benthic, Pelagic & Nearshore Monitoring, Water Quality Monitoring, Power Plant & Industrial Compliance, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, GIS in Coastal Waters, Quantitative Analysis & Modeling, Natural Resource Economics, and Population and Community Ecology. We need to ensure the lab is being utilized at its fullest potential and if there is needs for improvement, we need to gather funds from sponsors to help the community grow.

*Adapted from [http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html]

= [[Morgan State University Student Priorities|Morgan State University Student Priorities]]  =

The above link directs you to Leadership Circle's Strategic Priorities. 

= Leadership Circle Change Stories =

[https://youtu.be/YvfMeegwomE Spring 2018 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

[https://youtu.be/fXSRQiGvuP8 Spring 2017 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

= Morgan State University Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sZda_2QMEYJA98nLgh73oOxKIahI9qQ4llmYK-PSoaI/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/19FgJJmEvq-v9bhXusqLCyqZeb3_nUz2TuhIdQL3UcRA/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=107245602447079222301 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Spring 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas ][https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Spring 2017  ]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyk6VtKlbDmugguwLY5OZXUzLglc-dP1PPQcG9NDyp8/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle 1 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_GEn6Xa8uT2xw0bB6cOvkePe1Eq5ULQSkOO9rN3gKA/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle 3 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXf-_t9FZfpy0ztqyqsyyoQY5IW1AcgIkH1SC5ygK0A/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2015]

= The University Technology Transfer Function =

'''Office of Technology and Transfer'''

The OTTR assists faculty and staff members, administrators, and students with intellectual property issues resulting from their reearch discoveries, and other scholarly and creative activities. It exists to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual property for the benefit of the university and the public. The OTTR provides assistance on such issues as patent applications, registering trademarks and copyrights.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

'''Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)'''

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A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the MSU component of the GESTAR Program began in May 2011. This program brings more than 40 established and internationally recognized scientists to MSU and creates broad research and internship opportunities in earth and atmospheric sciences for students. 

'''Extreme Science Internship'''

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The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University announce a collaborative educational program called the Extreme Science Internship Program. This program is designed to provide a bridge between Morgan State science and engineering undergraduates and Johns Hopkins University, as well as fourteen other major research institutions and a large group of technology companies. HEMI addresses the fundamental issues associated with materials under extreme conditions, such as those developed during impact events. Our specific aim is to improve the human condition by providing government, industry and national institutions with science-based tools for designing materials for extreme environments. An endeavor as ambitious as this requires a collaborative effort across the nation’s top research institutes.
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= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

'''Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)'''

Research conducted at the PEARL facility located near the Patuxent River is designed to increase the understanding of coastal ecosystems so that they may be properly managed and protected. Much of the work is focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, such as the Patuxent River.

'''New Business School Building'''

Morgan State University recently opened the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management Business Center in 2015. The building contains hotel rooms, large kitchens for hospitality majors, Bloomberg terminal, and more. This building so far has brought new life to the Morgan State campus by expanding as well as modernizing the campus allowing the campus to be brought into a new light and gaining outsider attention. In under a year there have been multiple businesses that have hosted major events in the beautiful building. 

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= A National Treasure =

Morgan State University was designated a ''National Treasure'' by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016. This makes Morgan State University the only HBCU and first institution to achieve this designation. 

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

=== Fall 2018 Fellows: ===

Malaika Wanjihia

Joshua Gist

Leilani Moten

Samuel Orelaja

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Oyare Victor Oko|Oyare Victor Oko]]

[[Sumayyah Raji|Sumayyah Raji]]

[[Evan Robertson|Evan Robertson]]

[[Averi Turner|Averi Turner]]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

=== Fall 2016 Fellows: ===

==== ''Leadership Circle 1:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

==== ''Leadership Circle 2:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

==== ''Leadership Circle 3: '' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 4:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 5:'' ====

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

=== Spring 2016 Fellows: ===

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

=== Fall 2015 Fellows: ===

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

=== Fall 2014 Fellow: ===

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

=== Fall 2013 Fellow: ===

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jaime Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Morgan State University

2018-09-27T23:49:11Z

Wanjihiam16:

[[File:MSULOGOheader.png|700px|MSULOGOheader.png]]

Founded in 1867, Morgan State University is a Carnegie classified Doctoral Research Institution offering more than 70 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the masters and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible.

= Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

The Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Morgan State University-Interview with Dr. Singh By Adrien Feudjio

{{ #Widget:Youtube|id=RtNtTRZZPLM |width=900|height=400 }}

[[File:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg|center|900x700px|Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg]]

= Student Research Opportunities =

{{#Widget:Prezis| id=djdwxjbh20b5 |width=900|height=400 }}

= Campus Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan At A Glance*

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University, a coeducational institution, is located in a residential section of Baltimore, Maryland. The campus covers an area of more than 143 acres. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University offers a comprehensive range of academic programs through the doctorate. Morgan is also a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution of higher education. See the Nondiscrimination Policy. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By action of the Maryland Legislature, the University has been designated as Maryland's Public Urban University, with the responsibility of addressing the needs of residents, schools, and organizations within the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Morgan State University is located in a residential area of northeast Baltimore City. It is easily accessible from downtown, the Baltimore beltway, and Interstate 95. Each year, the school enrolls an average of 7,700 students in programs from the baccalaureate level through the doctorate.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Morgan State, our leadership circle has dug deep and found that students have aspirations and dreams of starting their own  businesses. The Morgan State Landscape Canvas provides sufficient amount of programs and seminars to get students on campus aware of entrepreneurship and innovative thinking. The issue on campus is students don’t feel empowered enough to voice their opinions. There’s a lack of interdisciplinary spaces that let students from different backgrounds come together and collaborate ideas and projects. The labs and facilities our school has are exclusive and only a few know about the resources. Morgan State is an HBCU, a school with strong culture and traditions. The students here have a different ways of learning and progressing within the academic curriculum. We need to develop an effective approach to get students involved and gear them towards an innovative mindset. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at Morgan are interested and willing to  help promote innovation and entrepreneurship into the Morgan ecosystem.The President, Dr. David Wilson, has voiced his support on the I&E movement; “I am truly excited with the innovation culture that is engulfing the campus and want to do everything I can to support and encourage it”. Encouraged faculty will subsequently strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship mindset in the teachers’ students. The vision will be shared and students will start to understand what it's all about. Dr. Archibald, from the Social Work Department, has stated that this movement is very important to him, and has some ideas on how to speed up this movement. Keeping in mind that Morgan State is an overall commuter school, we should make resources accessible for all students with hours that are convenient for all. Most of the commuter students have heavy schedules and are balancing full-time work schedules while having part-time or full-time course loads. The faculty will be a big part of this movement, because they can help articulate and help voice important student issues.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''The Office of Technology Transfer here at Morgan State University is a key tool that supports all entrepreneurs and innovators that have copyright needs or patents. They support all faculty and students that partake in research within the labs and facilities. They focus on intellectual property issues that may be concerning an individual. The purpose of The Office of Technology Transfer isto serve as a fully integrated center, structured to manage Morgan State’s intellectual property, fulfill the university's federal obligations, interact with industry to commercialize university intellectual property, foster economic development, and ultimately increase Morgan State’s resources to support its strategic goals. This office needs to operate at its highest level at all times. The students and researchers need to know all the rules and regulations to take their creations and discoveries to the industry smoothly and properly, and with the help of the Office of Technology Transfer, Morgan State can accomplish that. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The step from gathering your findings within a campus and getting it fine tuned to present to the industry is not an easy task, and requires the right tools and mentoring for a successful launch in the industry world. Morgan provides a few options to students who need help making the transition into the industry. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy focuses on supporting  start-up entrepreneurs in getting the right advice and helping with longevity and success. Director, Robert Singh, PhD., who is apart of this big movement, is a big believer in inclusive entrepreneurship and would like to make incubators for young entrepreneurs and training. The Earl G. Graves Business Building, which is the newest addition at MSU, will be the location of many of these spaces and tools. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory  (PEARL) is to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development. This is the biggest partnership Morgan (since 2004) has that focuses on bettering the community by research and findings based on the community needs. It is located near the Patuxent River in Saint Leonard, Maryland. The laboratory capabilities include Benthic, Pelagic & Nearshore Monitoring, Water Quality Monitoring, Power Plant & Industrial Compliance, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, GIS in Coastal Waters, Quantitative Analysis & Modeling, Natural Resource Economics, and Population and Community Ecology. We need to ensure the lab is being utilized at its fullest potential and if there is needs for improvement, we need to gather funds from sponsors to help the community grow.

*Adapted from [http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html]

= [[Morgan State University Student Priorities|Morgan State University Student Priorities]]  =

The above link directs you to Leadership Circle's Strategic Priorities. 

= Leadership Circle Change Stories =

[https://youtu.be/YvfMeegwomE Spring 2018 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

[https://youtu.be/fXSRQiGvuP8 Spring 2017 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

= Morgan State University Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sZda_2QMEYJA98nLgh73oOxKIahI9qQ4llmYK-PSoaI/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/19FgJJmEvq-v9bhXusqLCyqZeb3_nUz2TuhIdQL3UcRA/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=107245602447079222301 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Spring 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas ][https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Spring 2017  ]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyk6VtKlbDmugguwLY5OZXUzLglc-dP1PPQcG9NDyp8/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle 1 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_GEn6Xa8uT2xw0bB6cOvkePe1Eq5ULQSkOO9rN3gKA/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle 3 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXf-_t9FZfpy0ztqyqsyyoQY5IW1AcgIkH1SC5ygK0A/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2015]

= The University Technology Transfer Function =

'''Office of Technology and Transfer'''

The OTTR assists faculty and staff members, administrators, and students with intellectual property issues resulting from their reearch discoveries, and other scholarly and creative activities. It exists to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual property for the benefit of the university and the public. The OTTR provides assistance on such issues as patent applications, registering trademarks and copyrights.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

'''Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)'''

'''[[File:Gestar logo rgb.jpg|center|400x200px|Gestar logo rgb.jpg]]'''
<div>
A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the MSU component of the GESTAR Program began in May 2011. This program brings more than 40 established and internationally recognized scientists to MSU and creates broad research and internship opportunities in earth and atmospheric sciences for students. 

'''Extreme Science Internship'''

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=cJBVEqrhELI |width=900|height=400}}

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University announce a collaborative educational program called the Extreme Science Internship Program. This program is designed to provide a bridge between Morgan State science and engineering undergraduates and Johns Hopkins University, as well as fourteen other major research institutions and a large group of technology companies. HEMI addresses the fundamental issues associated with materials under extreme conditions, such as those developed during impact events. Our specific aim is to improve the human condition by providing government, industry and national institutions with science-based tools for designing materials for extreme environments. An endeavor as ambitious as this requires a collaborative effort across the nation’s top research institutes.
</div>
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

'''Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)'''

Research conducted at the PEARL facility located near the Patuxent River is designed to increase the understanding of coastal ecosystems so that they may be properly managed and protected. Much of the work is focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, such as the Patuxent River.

'''New Business School Building'''

Morgan State University recently opened the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management Business Center in 2015. The building contains hotel rooms, large kitchens for hospitality majors, Bloomberg terminal, and more. This building so far has brought new life to the Morgan State campus by expanding as well as modernizing the campus allowing the campus to be brought into a new light and gaining outsider attention. In under a year there have been multiple businesses that have hosted major events in the beautiful building. 

[[File:Morgan state business center.JPG|center|400x400px|Morgan state business center.JPG]]

= A National Treasure =

Morgan State University was designated a ''National Treasure'' by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016. This makes Morgan State University the only HBCU and first institution to achieve this designation. 

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Oyare Victor Oko|Oyare Victor Oko]]

[[Sumayyah Raji|Sumayyah Raji]]

[[Evan Robertson|Evan Robertson]]

[[Averi Turner|Averi Turner]]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

=== Fall 2016 Fellows: ===

==== ''Leadership Circle 1:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

==== ''Leadership Circle 2:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

==== ''Leadership Circle 3: '' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 4:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 5:'' ====

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

=== Spring 2016 Fellows: ===

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

=== Fall 2015 Fellows: ===

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

=== Fall 2014 Fellow: ===

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

=== Fall 2013 Fellow: ===

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jaime Arribas Starkey-El]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Morgan State University

2018-09-27T23:40:48Z

Wanjihiam16:

[[File:MSULOGOheader.png|700px|MSULOGOheader.png]]

Founded in 1867, Morgan State University is a Carnegie classified Doctoral Research Institution offering more than 70 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the masters and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible.

= Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

The Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Morgan State University-Interview with Dr. Singh By Adrien Feudjio

{{ #Widget:Youtube|id=RtNtTRZZPLM |width=900|height=400 }}

[[File:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg|center|900x700px|Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project.jpg]]

= Student Research Opportunities =

{{#Widget:Prezis| id=djdwxjbh20b5 |width=900|height=400 }}

= Campus Overview =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan At A Glance*

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University, a coeducational institution, is located in a residential section of Baltimore, Maryland. The campus covers an area of more than 143 acres. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University offers a comprehensive range of academic programs through the doctorate. Morgan is also a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morgan State University is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution of higher education. See the Nondiscrimination Policy. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By action of the Maryland Legislature, the University has been designated as Maryland's Public Urban University, with the responsibility of addressing the needs of residents, schools, and organizations within the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Morgan State University is located in a residential area of northeast Baltimore City. It is easily accessible from downtown, the Baltimore beltway, and Interstate 95. Each year, the school enrolls an average of 7,700 students in programs from the baccalaureate level through the doctorate.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Morgan State, our leadership circle has dug deep and found that students have aspirations and dreams of starting their own  businesses. The Morgan State Landscape Canvas provides sufficient amount of programs and seminars to get students on campus aware of entrepreneurship and innovative thinking. The issue on campus is students don’t feel empowered enough to voice their opinions. There’s a lack of interdisciplinary spaces that let students from different backgrounds come together and collaborate ideas and projects. The labs and facilities our school has are exclusive and only a few know about the resources. Morgan State is an HBCU, a school with strong culture and traditions. The students here have a different ways of learning and progressing within the academic curriculum. We need to develop an effective approach to get students involved and gear them towards an innovative mindset. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at Morgan are interested and willing to  help promote innovation and entrepreneurship into the Morgan ecosystem.The President, Dr. David Wilson, has voiced his support on the I&E movement; “I am truly excited with the innovation culture that is engulfing the campus and want to do everything I can to support and encourage it”. Encouraged faculty will subsequently strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship mindset in the teachers’ students. The vision will be shared and students will start to understand what it's all about. Dr. Archibald, from the Social Work Department, has stated that this movement is very important to him, and has some ideas on how to speed up this movement. Keeping in mind that Morgan State is an overall commuter school, we should make resources accessible for all students with hours that are convenient for all. Most of the commuter students have heavy schedules and are balancing full-time work schedules while having part-time or full-time course loads. The faculty will be a big part of this movement, because they can help articulate and help voice important student issues.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''The Office of Technology Transfer here at Morgan State University is a key tool that supports all entrepreneurs and innovators that have copyright needs or patents. They support all faculty and students that partake in research within the labs and facilities. They focus on intellectual property issues that may be concerning an individual. The purpose of The Office of Technology Transfer isto serve as a fully integrated center, structured to manage Morgan State’s intellectual property, fulfill the university's federal obligations, interact with industry to commercialize university intellectual property, foster economic development, and ultimately increase Morgan State’s resources to support its strategic goals. This office needs to operate at its highest level at all times. The students and researchers need to know all the rules and regulations to take their creations and discoveries to the industry smoothly and properly, and with the help of the Office of Technology Transfer, Morgan State can accomplish that. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The step from gathering your findings within a campus and getting it fine tuned to present to the industry is not an easy task, and requires the right tools and mentoring for a successful launch in the industry world. Morgan provides a few options to students who need help making the transition into the industry. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy focuses on supporting  start-up entrepreneurs in getting the right advice and helping with longevity and success. Director, Robert Singh, PhD., who is apart of this big movement, is a big believer in inclusive entrepreneurship and would like to make incubators for young entrepreneurs and training. The Earl G. Graves Business Building, which is the newest addition at MSU, will be the location of many of these spaces and tools. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory  (PEARL) is to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development. This is the biggest partnership Morgan (since 2004) has that focuses on bettering the community by research and findings based on the community needs. It is located near the Patuxent River in Saint Leonard, Maryland. The laboratory capabilities include Benthic, Pelagic & Nearshore Monitoring, Water Quality Monitoring, Power Plant & Industrial Compliance, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, GIS in Coastal Waters, Quantitative Analysis & Modeling, Natural Resource Economics, and Population and Community Ecology. We need to ensure the lab is being utilized at its fullest potential and if there is needs for improvement, we need to gather funds from sponsors to help the community grow.

*Adapted from [http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html http://www.morgan.edu/about/at_a_glance.html]

= [[Morgan State University Student Priorities|Morgan State University Student Priorities]]  =

The above link directs you to Leadership Circle's Strategic Priorities. 

= Leadership Circle Change Stories =

[https://youtu.be/YvfMeegwomE Spring 2018 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

[https://youtu.be/fXSRQiGvuP8 Spring 2017 Cohort [Project Pitch]]

= Morgan State University Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/19FgJJmEvq-v9bhXusqLCyqZeb3_nUz2TuhIdQL3UcRA/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=107245602447079222301 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Spring 2018]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas ][https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxrDRXxaK7dlxHroZ_cKNTtII1lFpdSWMSSKYcMlews/edit#gid=0 Spring 2017  ]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyk6VtKlbDmugguwLY5OZXUzLglc-dP1PPQcG9NDyp8/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle 1 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_GEn6Xa8uT2xw0bB6cOvkePe1Eq5ULQSkOO9rN3gKA/edit#gid=0 Leadership Circle 3 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXf-_t9FZfpy0ztqyqsyyoQY5IW1AcgIkH1SC5ygK0A/edit?usp=sharing Leadership Circle Landscape Canvas Fall 2015]

= The University Technology Transfer Function =

'''Office of Technology and Transfer'''

The OTTR assists faculty and staff members, administrators, and students with intellectual property issues resulting from their reearch discoveries, and other scholarly and creative activities. It exists to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual property for the benefit of the university and the public. The OTTR provides assistance on such issues as patent applications, registering trademarks and copyrights.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

'''Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR)'''

'''[[File:Gestar logo rgb.jpg|center|400x200px|Gestar logo rgb.jpg]]'''
<div>
A multidisciplinary team of Morgan State University scientists, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker, successfully won a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) worth nearly $96M, the largest federal contract in the institution's history. Through funding, the MSU component of the GESTAR Program began in May 2011. This program brings more than 40 established and internationally recognized scientists to MSU and creates broad research and internship opportunities in earth and atmospheric sciences for students. 

'''Extreme Science Internship'''

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=cJBVEqrhELI |width=900|height=400}}

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University announce a collaborative educational program called the Extreme Science Internship Program. This program is designed to provide a bridge between Morgan State science and engineering undergraduates and Johns Hopkins University, as well as fourteen other major research institutions and a large group of technology companies. HEMI addresses the fundamental issues associated with materials under extreme conditions, such as those developed during impact events. Our specific aim is to improve the human condition by providing government, industry and national institutions with science-based tools for designing materials for extreme environments. An endeavor as ambitious as this requires a collaborative effort across the nation’s top research institutes.
</div>
= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

'''Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)'''

Research conducted at the PEARL facility located near the Patuxent River is designed to increase the understanding of coastal ecosystems so that they may be properly managed and protected. Much of the work is focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, such as the Patuxent River.

'''New Business School Building'''

Morgan State University recently opened the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management Business Center in 2015. The building contains hotel rooms, large kitchens for hospitality majors, Bloomberg terminal, and more. This building so far has brought new life to the Morgan State campus by expanding as well as modernizing the campus allowing the campus to be brought into a new light and gaining outsider attention. In under a year there have been multiple businesses that have hosted major events in the beautiful building. 

[[File:Morgan state business center.JPG|center|400x400px|Morgan state business center.JPG]]

= A National Treasure =

Morgan State University was designated a ''National Treasure'' by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016. This makes Morgan State University the only HBCU and first institution to achieve this designation. 

= Related Links  =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University Morgan State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University_Student_Priorities Morgan State University Student Priorities]

=== Spring 2018 Fellows: ===

[[Oyare Victor Oko|Oyare Victor Oko]]

[[Sumayyah Raji|Sumayyah Raji]]

[[Evan Robertson|Evan Robertson]]

[[Averi Turner|Averi Turner]]

=== Spring 2017 Fellows: ===

[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]

Rashae Hilson

[[Tobiloba Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]

[[Oluwakayode Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]

=== Fall 2016 Fellows: ===

==== ''Leadership Circle 1:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saxfield_Chatmon Saxfield Chatmon]

Ashley Gray

Jordan Joines

Sheena Williams 

==== ''Leadership Circle 2:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KenishaYoung Kenisha Young]

==== ''Leadership Circle 3: '' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin Taylor Griffin]

[[Ayodeji Afolabi]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Avian_Richardson Avian Richardson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 4:'' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Malin5 Matthew Lindsey<]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Abdulganiyu Abdulganiyu Ajilore]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Arjac5 Arianna Jackson]

==== ''Leadership Circle 5:'' ====

[[Brie Thompson|Brie Thompson]]

[[Nesha Jackson|Nesha Jackson]]

[[Oluwaseun Ojimi|Oluwaseun Ojimi]]

[[Kendell Costley|Kendell Costley]]

=== Spring 2016 Fellows: ===

[[Destiny Bond|Destiny Bond]]

[[Chanell Mosley|Chanell Mosley]]

[[Monique Ndagha|Monique Ndagha]]

[[Maliik Nelson|Maliik Nelson]]

[[Mikhal wyatt|Mikhal Wyatt]]

=== Fall 2015 Fellows: ===

[[Ravin Jajistar|Ravin Jajistar]]

[[Abdoul Mohammed|Abdoul Mohammed]]

[[Iyanna Patterson|Iyanna Patterson]]

[[Michael Shiferaw|Michael Shiferaw]]

[[Mareco Edwards|Mareco Edwards]]

=== Fall 2014 Fellow: ===

[[Adrien Feudjio|Adrien Feudjio]]

=== Fall 2013 Fellow: ===

[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jaime Arribas Starkey-El]]

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