Deadline: SIPA Dean’s Public Policy Challenge Grant

Teams must include at least one SIPA student in a substantive role. Apply here This year, to help facilitate team formation, SIPA is providing a Matching spreadsheet here for teams and individuals to meet virtually. Applications are now open for the SIPA Dean's Public Policy Challenge Grant Program.  Initial proposals for projects are due on September 28, […]

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Open Design Workshop

RSVP here From a newsreader app, to a low-cost infant warmer for developing countries, to simply a more creative team dynamic, human centered design has proven to be a powerful methodology capable of solving challenges of all shapes and sizes. The principles of user research, prototyping, and testing have been used by everyone from product […]

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Deadline: Design Your Future

Apply here by 11:59pm. This not-for credit program is available to all students, including Teachers College and Barnard. The future can feel uncertain, so we’ve created Design Your Future as a three-session program where students learn to apply design to their careers and their life after graduation. The goal of this program is to help […]

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Deadline: Start Me Up Bootcamp Fall 2020

Apply here. Join a Lean Launchpad virtual course to test your idea in the market! Participants in this free, two-week course will receive entrepreneurship training and mentor support as they  virtually talk with customers to identify the best product-market fit using the lean launchpad methodology. Faculty, staff, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student researchers may apply with a team […]

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Deadline: Rapid Testing Innovation Competition

Details here. To accelerate the development and deployment of rapid tests, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), on behalf of the City, is seeking to identify companies developing innovative molecular or antigen rapid tests that can deliver results quickly, reliably, and at scale. Diagnostic test manufacturers, suppliers, developers, and academics are invited to submit proposals […]

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NYC Defense Innovation Meetup 

Register here. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Information Directorate (Rome, NY) chief engineer, Karen Roth, will provide an overview of AFRL Rome's open innovation initiatives, including their public-private partnership Innovare, followed by Q&A, and open community discussion (gives, asks, news).

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