Posts by Kelly Burch

The Magnuson Center’s Maggie Ronan recently attended the Elevate Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, where she learned a new approach to diversity and inclusion. When Maggie Ronan, Program Manager for Startup Support at The Magnuson Center, went to the Elevate Conference, she expected to learn a shared lexicon and norms around diversity,…

cosMYC, a company that grew out of research supported by the Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Cancer, is working to identify potential new cancer drugs. Michael D. Cole, Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology at Geisel School of Medicine, and research scientist Ed Feris have worked for years—more than four decades in Cole’s case—to identify a…

The Accelerator, a partnership between the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship, will help researchers bring their technology to market. Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine, knows that too often, scientific innovations don’t reach the people that could benefit from them the most.…

The Magnuson Center is supporting socially inspired entrepreneurship and engaging with global challenges, beginning with a new grant program. The Magnuson Center is supporting five individuals engaging with global social entrepreneurship challenges through a new program, the Social Founders and Changemakers for Impact grant. “This grant is meant to be providing greater access and individual…

The Magnuson Center’s Social Entrepreneurship Program worked with the Hood Museum to create an exhibit that highlighted the tension between innovation and sustainability. Students and staff gathered last week at the Hood Museum of Art to consider a selection of environmental photography curated to facilitate a discussion about the impact of entrepreneurship and innovation on…

Dartmouth graduates Alex Danilowicz and Teddy Ni, both D’19, started working together in computer science class. Now, they’re participating in Y Combinator as a team. When Alex Danilowicz and Teddy Ni first started working together along with a team of Dartmouth undergraduates in CS 52, they had no idea that their class project would change…

The college will work with other institutions that comprise the I-Corps Hub, an initiative from the National Science Foundation. Dartmouth College has been named a member of the Interior Northeast Hub in a recent award by the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps), an immersive entrepreneurial training program. Dartmouth has a longstanding relationship with the…

As a scientist and biotech innovator, Gardner has learned about balancing the demands of academia and enterprise. A few years ago, Kevin Gardner was the founder of a biotech company, Optologix, Inc. The technology from the company had emerged fairly directly from Gardner’s research and had commercial potential. But Gardner was trying to bring the…

Author, consultant and biotech cofounder Stephanie Wisner spoke with the Third Cohort of the The Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer (DIAC) about the importance of approaching innovation with the end goal in mind. When Stephanie Wisner was studying chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, she was always mindful of how her research might ultimately…

The Summit will focus on the future of clinically validated digital healthcare. Players from across the healthcare industry — including providers, payers, researchers, regulators and investors — will converge on Hanover Wednesday, November 2 for a digital health summit entitled “Clinically Validated Digital Therapeutics: Paths to Deployment.” The event, hosted by the Center for Technology…