2018 March Newsletter
Spring Into Innovation,
First Week of Spring Edition:
Events, Profiles, and Funding Opportunities
NewCo Boston Programs:
How Do We Really Increase Diversity in STEAM?
plus MakerLab Demo
April 11, 10:30am
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Brandeis Innovation will participate in NewCo Boston for the first time this year. NewCo is Boston's premier festival for innovation organizations, when, for three days, organizations around Boston share their culture, creativity, and tech with the community. We will be presenting two exciting programs on April 11: First off, in our MakerLab, learn the essentials of 3D printing with this bio-tech and social enterprise focused hands-on session. Learn how to 3D print molecules and learn how students are preserving ancient artifacts, crafting prostethics, and more.
Then, hear from our panel on how to really foster inclusion in STEAM. We hear so much about diversity, but how do we really foster it at all levels of the STEAM career pipeline, from K-16 through the executive level? Hear from successful leaders in academia, startups, and the corporate world on how they have fostered a culture of inclusion AND seen tangible growth in diverse candidates.
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Past Event Recap:
Mass Innovation Nights
March 14th
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Brandeis University successfully hosted Mass Innovation Nights 108 on Pi Day. The event brought together 11 Brandeis-affiliated startup teams, some of which you met at Brandeis' Innovation Showcase back in November. They shared one common goal: connecting with the Massachusetts startup community. A standing-room-only crowd from Boston's startup scene gathered to meet many of Brandeis' top innovators. Articulate Biosciences, led by Benjy Cooper, Ph.D (BS, '11) and his team won Audience Favorite. Previously, Articulate participated in our I-Corps programs.
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Profile In Innovation: SPARKTank Winner
Marshall Chang
Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur
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SPARKTank winner Zhuangzhuang (Marshall) Chang combines his passions for finance and machine learning to create an artificial intelligence for trading that could actually learn independently and beat human traders.
He not only developed his own infrastructure, but also his own model and wrote his own system for his company, A.I. Capital Management. His current goal is to test the A.I. in the live market, with a long-term goal of starting a hedge fund.
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Need STEM or Social Innovation Funding?
Check Out Our External Funding Opportunities Resource
Funding from our I-Corps, SPROUT, and SPARK programs can seen entrepreneurial ventures. They are just the tip of the iceberg in the funding available to innovators. In addition to funding available through Brandeis Innovation, we work to identify external opportunities for funding in a range of disciplines. You can check out the current funding opportunities from foundations, Federal sources, and private industry on our curated External Funding Opportunities page. This resource is updated regularly as new funding sources are announced, so check it regularly.
