Organization:University Innovation Fellows Program

The University Innovation Fellows are part of a national movement to ensure that students gain the necessary attitudes, skills and knowledge required for them to compete in the economy of the future. These student leaders from schools around the country work with their peers to catalyze even greater levels of innovation and entrepreneurship activity on their campuses.

The program is run by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), funded by the National Science Foundation as a partnership between Stanford University and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). University Innovation Fellows call on engineering students and their peers to dream, design and deliver innovations that solve real-world problems.

Learn more at the University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org

New! Fall 2013 Candidates:

• Valerie Sherry, University of Maryland College Park
• Michael Tantum, Wake Forest University
• Terrence Agbi, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
• Chen Cui, University of Iowa
• Andrew Dalman, North Dakota State University
• Derek Dashti, Tulane University
• Mary Wilcox, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
• Nathan Smialek, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
• Brian Rhindress, University of Pittsburgh
• Christopher Woodward, Western Michigan University
• Randy Stockman, Florida Institute of Technology
• Dean Tate, Texas A & M University
• Graham Leslie, Texas A&M University
• Yifan Ge, Bucknell University
• Ellery Addington-White, Beloit College
• Jennifer Mayo, Oklahoma State University
• Katelyn Stenger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Nolan Nicholson, University of Nevada, Reno
• Breanne Przestrzelski, Clemson University
• Brittany Wouden, Washington State University
• Mridul Bhandari, Pennsylvania State University
• Lauryn Cornish, Colby Sawyer College

Current University Innovation Fellows:

Viviana Tran, Washington State University (since Spring 2013)

Ian Hamilton, Purdue University (since Spring 2013)

Peter Hollender, Duke University (since Spring 2013)

Jeffrey Ackerman, Purdue University (since Spring 2013)

Gregory Wilson, University of Georgia (since Spring 2013)

Andrew Batz, Virginia Commonwealth University (since Spring 2013)

Benjamin Johnston, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (since Spring 2013)

Karuna Relwani, University of Pittsburgh (since Fall 2012)

Elliot Roth, Virginia Commonwealth University (since Fall 2012)

Jared Karp, University of California Berkeley (since Fall 2012)

Blake Margraff, University of Washington St. Louis (since Fall 2012)

Kevin Mobolade, Mercer University (since Fall 2012)

Alexandra Halbeck, Tufts University (since Fall 2012)

Former University Innovation Fellows:

Dmitry Timmerman, Columbia University 2011-2012

Mayank Yadav, Columbia University 2010-2011