Posts by Kelly Burch

The recipients range from a platform to expand opportunities for creatives of color, to an app to help demystify the college application process. Cooper Weissman received $2,500 in Magnuson Center funding for his startup, Nerd Apply. The latest round of the Magnuson Center Founder Grants awarded $12,000 to Dartmouth Entrepreneurs working on six distinct projects. …

Researchers say that DIAC fills a gap in available funding sources, allowing them to collect the data they need to secure peer-reviewed grants. Over the past five years, immune checkpoint blockade drugs have revolutionized the treatment of cancer. Dr. Tyler J. Curiel, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Geisel School of Medicine, says these drugs…

The grants will support six endeavors founded by Dartmouth entrepreneurs and innovators. Mubarak Idoko D’23 wants to revolutionize the way that Nigerian students learn. His company, Lena, aims to do that by delivering all-in-one web-based learning management software that Nigerian schools can use to harness technology to improve learning outcomes. In the coming months, Idoko…

Virtual reality platforms developed in the DALI Lab are being integrated in classes ranging from theater to chemistry, giving students and faculty a new tool to facilitate education. When Macy Toppan D’22 first came into the DALI Lab, she had never worked on a virtual reality project. But the technology quickly swept her off her…

Twelve teams participated in the first cohort of the accelerator. Four, including a team focused on providing early diagnosis of neurological disease and another revolutionizing the blood pressure cuff, received awards to help further their innovations. Karen Fortuna, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine, thinks of her dad when she considers…

Economic uncertainty has given investors pause, but there’s still plenty of opportunities to be had, according to a panel at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum. Rising interest rates, mass layoffs and a general sense of unease about the health of the economy has caused many investors to tap the brakes on venture capital investing.  But that…

The founder and CEO of the financial services company Achieve bootstrapped the company and scaled it to more than 3,000 employees. He spoke at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum about what he’s learned over 20 years of entrepreneurship. Looking back on more than two decades of entrepreneurship, Andrew Housser ’95, Founder and CEO of Achieve, sees…

Scores of alumni, students, faculty and other Dartmouth community members gathered at the Hanover Inn to celebrate and strengthen a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. With celebrated alumni, faculty, current students and even local high schoolers in attendance, Jamie Coughlin, Director of the Magnuson Center, opened the annual Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum earlier this month, held in Hanover…

The Magnuson Center & Rassias Center Social Entrepreneurship Experience in Mexico City brought students, educators and entreprenuers together. Ten Dartmouth students travelled to Mexico City last month for the Magnuson Center & Rassias Center Social Entrepreneurship experience Mexico City, Mexico. The journey was part of a broader Global Dartmouth initiative that the Magnuson Center hopes…

Each research team participating in The Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer meet with the panel of experts three times. Behind the research teams participating in The Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer (DIAC), there’s a secret weapon of sorts—the group of 30 experts in biotechnology who comprise the External Review Panel (ERP). They work for venture capital…