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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Established in 1804, Ohio University is a public university located in Athens, Ohio. The campus is home to nearly 23,000 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. The university is ranked number one nationally in overall student satisfaction. In 2015, the Cent</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">er for World </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Ratings ranked Ohio University in the top 3% of high education institutions globally and the university has received a Carnegie Classification for high activity research universities. Ohio University has many prestigious alumni among them are Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and president of the Royal Society; George Voinovich, former Ohio governor and U.S. senator for Ohio and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson in the Simpsons T.V. series. </span>
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Designing to Make a Difference: '''Senior capstone project for engineering undergraduate students.</span></span>
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Integrated Business Cluster: '''Be able to solve real-world business problems as a team.</span></span>
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''The Bobcat Launchpad''': The Bobcat Launchpad will provide real-world, hands-on learning on what it's like to actually start a company.</span></span>
*'''Sustainable Construction:''' A course focused on challenging civil engineering students at OHIO to problem solve field-specific challenges with a sustainability mindset.
<li><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Consulting</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Fellows: </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Consulting</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fellowsgive future leaders tools to build analytical skills and business knowledge, as well as a complementary set of so-called soft skills which are becoming critical in today’s business environment.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Amplified Communication''': Amplified communication is a student organization that focuses on the value 'students helping students". This organization works with students and their brands to connect them to art, entertainment, entrepreneurship, and lifestyle.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span></span>'''yOUdesign: '''yOUdesign is an interdisciplinary student organization that strives to empower students to create innovative and sustainable solutions to problems using design thinking. </li>
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<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Weekend: </span>Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams form around the<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">top ideas then have the weekend for business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend ends with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Student Research & Creative Activity'''</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Expo</span>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">800</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">students from 56 different departments and schools showcase their original research at Ohio University’s biggest-ever Research and Creative Activity Expo with live performances, presentations and interactive demonstrations.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student Expo: </span>Once a year, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to present their research and receive recognition.</span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Eco Challenge: </span>Eco challenge partners students across disciplines to create sustainability solutions for Ohio University's campus. Projects are evaluated based on the triple bottom line, which seeks solutions that consider the impact on people, planet, and profit.</span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Human Powered Vehicle Challenge: </span>The Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, provides opportunities for students to design and build highly engineered vehicles and test them against one another through sprint and endurance races. They demonstrate how sound engineering design can create and improve sustainable and practical transportation alternatives.</span></li>
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''One Day Workshops:''' Periodically, students at Ohio University can find a free workshop to attend. Recently, Ohio University Entrepreneurs (see above) hosted a design thinking workshop. The organization brought in Gary Coombs (a professor here at OU) to talk about and demonstrate design thinking. There is another workshop coming up, unrelated to OUE, about </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">film making</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that is also free to attend </span>
=== <span style="font-size:mediumsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Media:</span></span> ===
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Center for'''</span></span>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Entreprenuership</span></span>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Twitter:''' with around 400</span></span><span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">follows,</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">the CoE twitter is an avenue to notify students of upcoming events and other news the center may have. </span></span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:,small;">'''Perspectives Magezine:''' The Ohio University Research department publishes Persepctives Magezine. Each edition covers anything innovative and entrepreneurial. This helps students get inspired and informed.</span></span>
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> =
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ohio University’s faculty is an intrinsically motivated and</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:small;">highly innovative </span><span style="font-size:small;">group</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of</span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> professionals</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. F</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">aculty members across colleges have worked on research that has helped generate over eight and a half million dollars in licensing revenue. This earned Ohio Univesrity the title of "most revenue generating university in Ohio" in 2011. Most of the revenue was generated by the Ohio University’s license to the Pfizer corporation for a growth hormone receptor antagonist. This technology is used as a therapeutic for patients with acromegaly, a form of gigantism. </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Along with the technologies that Ohio University faculty have worked on, faculty members also engage the innovative culture on campus. Over the</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:small;">past</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">year,</span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">faculty</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">and staff at Ohio University have participated in a forum called the Innovation Strategy Interim Report.The goal of the forum is to advance forward-looking strategies for collaborative research and innovative academic programs that benefit OHIO students </span><span style="font-size:small;">and</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">faculty</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">while</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">engaging with communities regionally and globally. </span></span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ohio University's Landscape Canvas:</span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">SOURCE: </span>[http://www.ohio.edu/research/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://www.ohio.edu/research/</span>]</span>
University Innovation Fellows
Fall 2019
[[Claire McGee|Claire McGee]]
Fall 2017
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