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NCIIA News and Media
The NCIIA provides funding and support to help U.S. student innovators move their technology ideas from lab to market, creating ventures that produce positive social and environmental impacts. NCIIA helps universities build cultures of innovation and entrepreneurship by funding new programs and emerging ventures, training faculty and student innovators, and offering 2 million dollars of annual support for technology innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education.
For media inquiries, please contact Tim Binkert: tbinkert@nciia.org, 413-587-2172 ext 104.
Ecovative Design featured on Dot Earth blog in NY Times
Andrew Revkin recently blogged in the NY Times about his visit to Ecovative Design, a former E-Team developing packaging, insulation and other materials from mushrooms.The piece delves into the history of Ecovative, which got its start in a course run by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's (and NCIIA Olympus Award winner) Burt Swersey.
Two Open Minds teams win Spark Awards
Two teams that are coming to the Open Minds exhibition at the NCIIA conference in March, Balde a Balde and Team GiraDora, recently won Spark Awards. Spark Awards are competitions created to promote great design and designers and to encourage people to explore their creativity.
Team Giradora, developers of a human-powered washer and spin dryer to increase the efficiency and improve the experience of washing clothes by hand, took the highest prize. Balde a Balde (developing a portable faucet that provides running water from any bucket) took the Gold Award. Congratulations to the teams!
NCIIA grantee Socialite featured in NY Times
An E-Team from Cooper Union has been developing Socialite, a solar lantern for the poor, for several years. The product was recently featured in a NY Times opinion piece, "Innovations in Light."
Social Innovation Boot Camp in the news
The Social Innovation Boot Camp, held at the University of Texas in January, received a write up from McCombs Today. NCIIA guided a number of teams in developing their social venture ideas.
<< Older Posts
June 2011: NCIIA Funds University Biomedical Engineering Teams at BMEidea Awards
July 2011: Calling All Student and Faculty Innovators: NCIIA Wants You
September 2011: Report on NCIIA Neonatal Technologies Forum
November 2011: NCIIA Provides Venture Mentorship and Training to Winners of Intel Innovators $100K Competition
