For Brittany Pierce, the 400-mile Cycle the Erie Canal Tour bicycle ride from Buffalo to Albany is great for the physical challenge. It s exactly her type of riding.
BU’s Campus Hunger Challenge invited student teams to dream up solutions to fight hunger in 19- to 26-year-olds. The winning team was selected Tuesday night and will receive $10,000 to advance their proposed solution for addressing the problem.
Jonathan Allen is the first innovator in residence at Innovate@BU, the University’s incubator that helps students develop innovation skills and turn their entrepreneurial ideas into something real.
Twitter Facebook
Wariness welcomed Gerry Fine four years ago when he was named to head Innovate@BU, an ambitious incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. “Our skeptics assumed that we would simply focus on tech start-ups emanating from engineering [students] and Questrom School of Business,” Fine recalls. Having a College of Engineering professor of the practice of mechanical engineering in the driver’s seat probably reinforced that impression.
But the feared parochialism never happened. Collaborating with Blake Sims, Innovate@BUsocial ventures program director, Innovate@BU has guided Terriers from across the University to develop their ideas, such as RefEd, an app with course instruction for refugee students lacking educational materials. The designers have hailed from schools all over the University, including Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences and Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.