U Alabama Blazer Bridge Fund continues encouraging innovative discoveries; announces 2024 winners 

The Blazer Bridge Fund will provide support to six innovative projects by University of Alabama at Birmingham inventors, including a device to prevent neonatal apnea, a tool to help patients in intensive care units remain safely hydrated and continued development of a possible therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease, among others. The Blazer Bridge Fund, an initiative of the Harbert Institute […]

Kennesaw State incubator hatching startups in tech, finance, agriculture, and more 

Need to finance a new heating and cooling system for your house? Or maybe you’re interested in adding culinary mushroom production to your farm. Perhaps your college-aged child with ADHD could use some support to thrive. Turns out, there’s a startup company to help with each of those issues, and they’re all growing at Kennesaw […]

Propelling Sustainable Startups 

Tanner Nott (Mktg’24) planned to work in finance after graduation. But everything changed when she enrolled in Assistant Teaching Professor Brad Werner’s New Venture Creation class. “A year ago, I totally thought I knew what I wanted to do,” she said. “Once I got in the startup space and had Brad as a professor, it […]

Nestle Health and Tufts University Launching Innovate Forward 2024: The Healthy Aging Challenge

Nestlé Health Science and the Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute at the Friedman School at Tufts University are launching the 2nd annual Innovation Challenge. The Challenge will award strategy guidance, technical support, and mentorship to an emerging startup from Nestlé Health Science and Tufts University experts.  Innovate Forward: The Healthy Aging Challenge is a joint initiative […]