School:Morgan State University

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

Campus Overview

1. Promoting student innovation andentrepreneurship: At Morgan State University, our leadership circle has invested lots of energy and time to find the resources that are available for students here at Morgan Campus. It is an excellent job to look into different areas that will help the Morgan students to develop entrepreneurship and innovative thinking. The circle landscape canvas depicts on different accessible resources for the success of Morgan students but unfortunately only few percentage of students are aware of all these resources setup to meet their entrepreneurship and innovative needs. Morgan State University is an excellent institution full of diverse students from different background and ethnic group around the world and these diversity makes it more a better ecosystem to practice and educate students on innovation and entrepreneurship.

2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: The faculty at Morgan are intrigued and more willing to advance entrepreneurship and innovation into the Morgan community. For instance, Dr. Foster is one best faculty that help to promote IE on Morgan campus likewise the President, Dr. David Wilson, has expressed his upkeep on the I&E development. Empowered and motivated faculty will in this manner fortify the advancement and business enterprise attitude in the instructors' to students. The vision will be shared and students will begin to comprehend what I&E all about. Dr. Amory, the chair of civil engineering Department, has expressed that this development is essential to him because he admire the idea of thinking outside the box and be creative, and he has a few thoughts on the best way to accelerate this development for example, project based learning is a good scenario of innovation. Remembering that Morgan State is a general suburbanite school, we ought to make assets available for all students (both graduate and undergraduate students) with hours that are helpful for all. The greater part of the students have overwhelming timetables and are adjusting all day work plans while having low maintenance or full-time course stacks. The staff will be a major a portion of this development, since they can understandable and voice critical students’ difficulties.

3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: The office of Technology Transfer at Morgan state University works to serve as a fully integrated counter that is built to manage all of the intellectual properties, helps encourage economic development, fulfill the universities federal obligations to the public, and more. The office is always willing to assault MSU faculty on patent applications, trademarks, and copyrights. The office wants to help MSU innovators with technology marketing to best benefit the inventor, the investor, as well as the University. Ultimately, the office of Technology Transfer has all of the resources needed for the students and the University’s needs; furthermore, remaining an important factor on campus.

4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:Morgan State University remains highly interested in working to get collaboration with Industry projects. The company must trust the student body and have had a prior relationship with the school. Also, it is hard for companies to promote work that doesn’t remain top secret, due to the discretion in certain areas of interest. None the less, MSU is working to build relationships with companies to be able to open up opportunities like that. For example, Dr. Joseph A. Whittaker helped promote a joint cooperative agreement from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. MSU has been working hard to promote more opportunities like these, and obtain more in the near future.

5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts:As far as economic development, The Division of Research and Economic Development (DRED) supports MSU staff with their research efforts. MSU feels the more research available, the better experiences the students will have. OVPR&ED works on a consistent bases with deans and department chairs t help promote institutional and cross-disciplinary research initiatives. With a 500 thousand dollar STEM student internship program and 23.3 Million dollars’ worth of grants from the National Institute of Health. MSU Vice President Dr. Victor R. McCarry, the deans, and department chairs are still working to obtain more money for better regional and local economic development opportunities.

Morgan State University Student Priorities 

The Above Link Directs You to Leadership Circle's Strategic Priorities 

http://news.morgan.edu/2014-morgan-innovation-day/

Morgan State University Landscape Canvas

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Leadership Circle 1 Landscape Canvas Fall 2016

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)

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

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.

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 has just opened a new Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management building. 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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University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2016:

Leadership Circle 2:

Kenisha Young

Leadership Circle 4:

Matthew Lindsey

Abdulganiyu Ajilore

Arianna Jackson

Leadership Circle 5:

Brie Thompson

Nesha Jackson

Oluwaseun Ojimi

Kendell Costley

Spring 2016:

Destiny Bond

Chanell Mosley

Monique Ndagha

Maliik Nelson

Mikhal Wyatt

Fall 2015:

Ravin Jajistar

Abdoul Mohammed

Iyanna Patterson

Michael Shiferaw

Mareco Edwards

Fall 2014:

Adrien Feudjio

Fall 2013:

Jamie Arribas Starkey-El