Ventureprise Presents: Small Bites and Insights
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Ventureprise travels across UNC Charlotte’s campus to highlight resources available to students and faculty to take their research and ideas to the next level. Each segment, Ventureprise talks with faculty and students from several colleges and departments, giving you insight into how their programs, ideas and research collaborate with Ventureprise to make an impact not only on campus, but in the community, region and beyond.
graduate research, programs and projects
Dr. Jill Huerta, Executive Director, Center for Graduate Life
Dylan Turner, Ethics and Applied Philosophy, Teaching Assistant, Center for Graduate Life Graduate Assistant
Christina Kopitopou, EPIC Affiiates Program Manager, EPIC Innovators Program
Olalekan Ogundairao, M.S., Electrical Engineering
Akintonde Abbas, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
undergraduate research, programs and projects
Dr. Diane Zablotsky, Director, Levine Scholars Program
Dr. Natasha Randle, Director, Belk Scholars and Business Honors Program
Samra Kanwal, Levine Scholar
Adonis Abdullah, Crown Scholar and Belk Scholar
National science foundation funding and i-corps programming
College of Arts + Architecture
Dr. Kyoung-Hee Kim
Dr. Chengde Wu
Ketki Prashant Bapat, Graduate Student
Seyedehhamideh Hosseiniirani, Graduate Student
Dante Gil Rivas, Undergraduate Student
Isabella Barrios Silva, Undergraduate Student
social impact on campus
Henry Doss, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (Entrepreneurship and Social Justice)
Dr. Kim Buch, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Adam Burden, Director of Student Involvement
Joey Balistreri, Venture for America
Brie’anna Brown, Belk College of Business
Amogh Bandekar, Levine Scholar
research, funding and commercialization
Brad Fach, Office of Research, Commercialization and Development
Bryan Dennstedt, SBTDC
Dr. Mary Lou Maher, College of Computing and Informatics
Abi Olukeye, Smart Girls HQ
Innovation and leadership
Jim Hartman, William States Lee College of Engineering, Director of Industrial Solutions Laboratory (Senior Design)
Allison File, William States Lee College of Engineering
Sahithi Meduri, College of Computing and Informatics
Research, IRB and Labs
Cat Runden, IRB Manager
Uzma Khan, IRB Analyst
Morgan Chandler, Ph.D. Student, NanoScale Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Roshanak Ashrafi, Ph.D. Student, Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, William States Lee College of Engineering