2024-cohort
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==Encouraging Faculty Innovation:==
* '''Baylor Fellows''': Each year, Baylor recognizes professors across the disciplinary spectrum who display exceptional teaching through pedagogical innovation, inspirational teaching, and cultivation of innovative teaching methods among other Baylor faculty. Fellows are nominated by academic deans, former fellows, and the Academy for Teaching and Learning Advisory Council.
* '''Active Learning Lab Fellowship''': This partnership between Baylor University Libraries and the Academy for Teaching and Learning equips Baylor professors with the time, space, and resources needed to increase the implementation, awareness, and quality of active learning. By allowing faculty access to spaces dedicated for active learning, Baylor helps faculty use new, innovative ways of teaching.
* '''Education Research Journal Club''': This organization for Baylor STEM faculty offers multiple interest groups with varying topics of interest, giving faculty a community through which to enact new teaching methods.
* '''Faculty Interest Groups''': Faculty interest groups give Baylor faculty a place to discuss challenges in teaching ranging from demographics, shifting paradigms of discovery and creativity to issues such as poverty, disease, and oppression.
==Actively Supporting Technology Transfer:==
* '''Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC)''': Baylor's OTC plays a central role in facilitating the technology transfer process. It helps faculty, researchers, and students protect their inventions through patents and manages the licensing of these innovations to companies for commercialization while also assisting companies in identifying and accessing Baylor University faculty expertise and research centers.* '''Patent Filings''': Baylor has filed over 60 patents, demonstrating its commitment to protecting intellectual property and supporting the transition of research into practical solutions that can be applied in various industries.* '''Collaboration with Industry Partners''': Baylor actively collaborates with companies and industry leaders to identify opportunities where academic research can address real-world problems. By fostering these partnerships, Baylor helps ensure that new technologies are developed and brought to the market efficiently.* '''Research and Development Investment''': With over $82 billion in research spending, Baylor's investment in research ensures a steady stream of new discoveries that have the potential for commercialization. This investment supports innovation and the creation of new intellectual property for potential technology transfer.* '''Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem''': Baylor provides resources like the '''Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC)''', which includes incubators and accelerators for startups, further facilitating the commercialization of university research.* '''Internships and Programs''': Baylor offers students hands-on opportunities through internships and entrepreneurship programs that directly engage them in the commercialization and technology transfer processes, helping them understand how to turn research into viable products.
Through these initiatives, Baylor plays an active role in translating its research into innovations that benefit society while supporting the commercialization process through structured technology transfer mechanisms.