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<span style="font-size:small;">The Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship offers many other hands-on events to spark campus innovation. The Entrepreneurial Insight Lecture Series and the Irish Impact Social Entrepreneurship Conference engage students and faculty in entrepreneurial thinking from various perspectives. All on campus can take innovative action by participating in events such as the Ideas Challenge, the Hackathon, and Startup Weekend ND. Finally, early stage ventures can enter the McCloskey Business Plan Competition for a chance to launch with support from the Mendoza College of Business and Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship. </span>
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Outfitted with a well-staffed Innovation Park dedicated to nurturing start-up ventures, Notre Dame creates an environment for small companies to grow alongside others. However, the distance between campus and Innovation Park and lack of courses taught there does keep undergraduates away from the resources offered.
<span class="s1">The Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning aims to enhance teaching diversity through professional development workshops. The center encompasses both faculty and graduate teaching, including training for graduate teaching assistants.</span>
<span class="s1">The Notre Dame Career Center helps students explore internship opportunities, create polished resumes, and coach mock prepare for interviews to facilitate success in any application process, whether it’s starting a career after graduation on gaining entry into that coveted corporation or graduate school.</span>
<span class="s1">The Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame allow students to pursue research and internship opportunities beyond the United States, requiring only an in depth proposal and a letter of recommendation and pledge of supervision from a faculty member. Past projects have included studying the effects of relaxation on pain management in burn victims, defining motherhood in Third World environments, and even how graffiti can link to neighborhood development in Brazil.</span>
=== Future Directions ===
Recognizing the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship for the future, the university has promoted current Dean of the College of Science, [http://science.nd.edu/about/office-of-the-dean/crawford/ Dr. Gregory Crawford], to the position of Vice President and Associate Provost of Notre Dame. His charge in the coming years will be to expand Notre Dame to the West Coast by promoting collaboration with companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. As faculty administrators work to create opportunities and partnerships in California, there is no better time than now to evaluate the current campus landscape and culture to further promote innovation within all Colleges in the future.
== ND I&E Landscape Analysis ==