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

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)
• Tyler Salem, University of Central Florida (since Fall 2012)
• Wilson Kurian, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (since Fall 2012)
• Amanda Ruppert, Bucknell University (since Summer 2012)
• Sean Maroni, North Carolina State University (since Summer 2012)
• Kinshuk Mitra, Ohio State University (since Summer 2012)
• Isaac Sanchez, University of Texas Austin (since Summer 2012)
• Jack Goodwin, University of California San Diego (since Summer 2012)
• Scharang Phadke, Cooper Union (since Summer 2012)
• Fletcher Richman, University of Colorado Boulder (since Summer 2012)
• Tayler Swanson, Rochester Institute of Technology (since Summer 2012)

Former University Innovation Fellows*:

• Christina Oelsner, Wake Forest University (2012-2013)
• Lucas Arzola, University of California Davis (2012-2013)
• Andrew Pennington, Eastern Kentucky University (2012-2013)
• Jeremy Klaben, University of Michigan (2012-2013)
• John Oliver, Pennsylvania State University (2012-2013)
• Deniz Pamukcu, Lehigh University (2012-2013)
• Nishant Ganesh Kumar, Johns Hopkins University (2012-2013)
• Zineb Laraki, Stanford University (2012-2013)
• Ala'a Siam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2013)
• Michelle Zwernemann, John Hopkins University (2012-2013)
• Michel Rivas, Florida International (2012-2013)

• Dmitry Timmerman, Columbia University (2011-2012)
• Jade Patterson, Washington State University (2011-2012)
• Jared Goodner, University of Southern California (2011-2012)
• Jennifer Villalobos, Oregon State University (2011-2012)
• Jerrid Matthews, University of California, Los Angeles (2011-2012)
• Samantha Smith, New York University (2011-2012)
• Joseph McMahon, Boston University (2011-2012)
• Lucy Lan, Wake Forest University (2011-2012)
• Mariel Bolhouse, University of Texas at Austin (2011-2012)
• Omoju Miller, University of California Berkeley (2011-2012)
• Mariana Prieto, Art Center College of Design (2011-2012)
• Danielle Helton, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2011-2012)

• Mayank Yadav, Columbia University (2010-2011)
• Trevor Owens, New York University (2010-2011)
• Steven Faulkner, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010-2011)
• David Mims, Rice University (2010-2011)
• William Oelsner, Wake Forest University (2010-2011)
• Eden Full, Princeton University (2010-2011)
• Roland Fomundam, Northeastern University (2010-2011)
• Swapnil Chaturvedi,  Northwestern University (2010-2011)
• Margaret Finch, Duke University (2010-2011)
• Juan Carlo Pascua, University of Nevada Las Vegas (2010-2011)
• Alex Sposito, University of Maryland (2010-2011)
• Adam Smith, Portland State University (2010-2011)
• Jennifer Villalobos, Oregon State University (2010-2011)
• Mohamed Ali Niang, Temple University (2010-2011)