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IdeasCityWS Festival and the Marketplace of Ideas this Saturday

A guest post from Wake the Arts and Wake Forest’s Office of University Collaborations.

On Saturday, Oct. 2, the IdeasCityWS Festival comes to Bailey Park as art, tech, design, and culture lead the conversation forward. Featuring interactive exhibits from two dozen local creative organizations, we’ll engage with a range of working ideas poised to move our communities forward as we reimagine a post-pandemic Winston-Salem. Vice Provost for the Arts & Interdisciplinary Initiatives Christina Soriano asks, “Winston-Salem has so many talented artists and scientists doing important work, yet often separated from one another. How can educational institutions be leaders in bringing these communities together more powerfully?”

Here’s where Wake Forest will be participating in the Marketplace of Ideas and panel discussions: Read more

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Proposals funded: Clarke, Dagenbach, Gross, Messier

Congratulations to Philip Clarke, associate professor of counseling, whose proposal entitled “COVID-Wellness Longitudinal Study” has been funded by the Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society.

Congratulations to Dale Dagenbach, professor of psychology, whose proposal entitled “Analytical Tools for Complex Brain Networks: Fusing Novel Statistical Methods and Network Science to Understand Brain Function” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) WFU Health Sciences.

Congratulations to Michael Gross, associate professor of engineering and faculty director for the Center for Entrepreneurship, whose proposal entitled “Template-Directed Electrode Nanostructure Engineering” has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and by (subaward/subcontract from) Oak Ridge Associated University.

Congratulations to Stephen Messier, professor of health and exercise science and director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory, whose proposal entitled “Preventing Incident Knee Osteoarthritis: The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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Proposals funded: Fernandez, Gross

Congratulations to Luis Fernandez, research associate professor of biology and executive director of the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA), whose proposal entitled “PRO-Agua Project 2 – Enhancing the Use of Freshwater Ecosystem Services in Regional Land Use Planning in the Madre de Dios Basin” has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and by (subaward/subcontract from) Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Congratulations to Michael Gross, associate professor of engineering and faculty director for the Center for Entrepreneurship, whose proposal entitled “CAREER: Processing High Surface Area, Nanostructured Ceramic Scaffolds at High Temperatures via In-Situ Carbon Templating of Hybrid Materials” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Michael Gross named faculty director for the Center for Entrepreneurship

Michael Gross, a founding faculty member and associate professor of the undergraduate Department of Engineering, has been named the David and Leila Farr Faculty Director for the Wake Forest University Center for Entrepreneurship. Headshot of Michael Gross, a founding faculty member and associate professor of the undergraduate Department of Engineering and new David and Leila Farr Faculty Director for the Wake Forest University Center for Entrepreneurship“We are thrilled and know he will do a wonderful job in this important role,” said Dan Cohen, executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.

As faculty director, Gross seeks to build relationships across departments and programs to creatively think about what it means to be entrepreneurial broadly and how to achieve the Wake Forest motto of Pro Humanitate with an entrepreneurial mindset.

“Working together with people across the college to reimagine the undergraduate engineering educational experience, approaching engineering as a liberal art, and striving to embody the motto of Pro Humanitate has been such a rewarding experience and an exemplar to the engineering education community,” said Gross. “It is such an exciting opportunity to engage with students and colleagues in analogous work for Entrepreneurship.”

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Center for Entrepreneurship director Dan Cohen named 'Master Educator'

Dan Cohen, executive director of Wake Forest’s Center for Entrepreneurship, has been named a Master Educator by the Annals Headshot of Dan Cohenof Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy. Only five professors are selected worldwide for this honor. As part of the Master Educator recognition, Cohen will write for the 2021 annals to share what he has learned over a decade of teaching entrepreneurship, with a focus on the IDEATE method of identifying problems and seeing potential solutions to solve them.

Cohen developed the IDEATE method to help fledgling entrepreneurs develop higher-quality, more innovative ideas that improve the odds their startup will succeed. When subjected to randomized testing, the IDEATE method was shown to produce ideas that were significantly more innovative than the previous gold standard in teaching ideation in collegiate entrepreneurship programs.

In addition to national recognition, Dan Cohen and the entrepreneurship center were prominently featured in the Winston-Salem Journal’s Business & Innovation section Spotting valuable ideas.

A number of Wake Forest startups are getting traction at Winston Starts, a local startup incubator, including SwipebyStorage Scholars, and UpDog Kombucha. The most recent Wake Forest Startup Lab saw five startups raise external seed capital.

Visit the Center for Entrepreneurship for more on Dan Cohen and Wake Forest News to read about the IDEATE method.

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