= Campus Overview =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-809f18af-8857-c551-5ce4-5c77585eb078"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Promoting student innovation and</span></span><span style="font-size:small;">'''entrepreneurship:''' At Morgan State University, our leadership circle has invested lots of energy and time to find the resources that are available for students here on the 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, 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 groups around the world. The diversity makes it a better ecosystem to practice and educate students on innovation and entrepreneurship.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: </span><span style="font-size:small;">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 I&E on Morgans 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 is all about. Dr. Amory, the chair of civil engineering Department, has expressed that this development is essential to him because he admires the idea of thinking outside the box and being 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 portion of this development, since they can understand and voice critical students’ difficulties.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: </span><span style="font-size:small;">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.</span>
<br/><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span><span style="font-size:small;">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.</span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-809f18af-8857-c551-5ce4-5c77585eb078"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts:</span></span><span style="font-size:small;">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.</span>
= [[Morgan State University Student Priorities|Morgan State University Student Priorities]] <br/> =
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Morgan State University Landscape Canvas</span><br/> =
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">([https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXf-_t9FZfpy0ztqyqsyyoQY5IW1AcgIkH1SC5ygK0A/edit?usp=sharing Updated Canvas 2015])</span><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Campus Landscape Canvas ([https://docs.google.com/a/dschool.stanford.edu/spreadsheets/d/1TBDbmsOIGGdC1esrj0ElwM4Ty9s4xDVkUPtt680YEoU/edit?usp=sharing Updated Canvas 2016])</span></span>
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<span style="font-size:large">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Office of Technology and Transfer</span>'''</span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium">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.</span>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University-Industry Collaboration</span> =
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span> =
'''<span style="line-height: 23px"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory</span><font size="4"> (PEARL)</font></span>'''
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium">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.</span>
<span style="font-size:large">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">New Business School Building</span>'''</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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 </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">the campus</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> 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. </span>
University Innovation Fellows
'''Spring 2017''':
[[Kofi.afriyie|Kofi Afriyie]]
Rashae Hilson
[[Tobiloba_Komolafe|Tobiloba Komolafe]]
[[Oluwakayode_Jasanya|Oluwakayode Jasanya]]
'''Fall 2016:'''
'''Fall 2013:'''
[[Jaime Arribas Starkey-El|Jamie Arribas Starkey-El]]<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
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