Applying innovative, inclusive, creative, and entrepreneurial approaches and mindsets to accelerate discovery and catalyze solutions to complex problems– whether within the context of the academic research enterprise and/or new venture creation.
Key Topics:
- Cultivate a growth mindset, active listening skills, and empathy
- Adopt creative and human-centric practices such as design thinking
- Facilitate collaborative problem-solving
- Understand venture capital and legal aspects of patent and intellectual property
- Promote a culture of inclusive innovation and creativity
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Profiles
Scott is a Senior Venture Associate with the Foundation Venture Capital Group where he plays a critical role in sourcing and evaluating potential investment opportunities. He also works directly with academic entrepreneurs and management teams of health-related early-stage startup companies to support their commercialization needs, including…
"I learned a lot, I met other students with similar interests, and I formed lasting relationships with experts in the respective fields."
Ruth Chang is a co-founder of Midstory, a nonprofit thinkhub based in Toledo with a mission to progress the Midwest narrative by incubating bright, diverse and interdisciplinary thinkers to exchange ideas and envision the future of our region through multimedia storytelling and solutions-oriented research. She currently oversees the…
Jim is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fitz Gate Ventures. Jim and Mark Poag lead the Venture Capital & Startup Learning Cohort for the Graduate School. In collaboration with the Keller Center and the Princeton Entrepreneur Council, the learning cohort introduces graduate students to the world of venture capital and start-ups and…
Yuyang Fan is co-founder and CTO of Tendo Technologies, and co-inventor of Tendo's underlying flow sensing technology. Tendo is a spin-off from Princeton University that is commercializing unique flow sensors to enable industrial / consumer applications that are not feasible at this moment due to constraints of conventional sensing…
Cornelia Huellstrunk is the Executive Director of the Keller Center. She also is a member of the Professional Development Working Group, as well as a Mentor in the University Administrative Fellowship…
Ken Igarza is an NSF-GRFP fellow in Dr. Annegret Falkner's laboratory at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), having previously studied and conducted research at Emory and Columbia University. At PNI, Ken studies how the brain generates drives that lead animals to seek social interactions and hopes to discover how these mechanisms go…
I am a: Princeton Graduate Alum
Year Degree Earned and Department/Program: 2013 Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience
Organization/Affiliation: Hult International Business School, Harvard University
Matt Johnson, PhD is a speaker, researcher, and…
Jessica teaches human-centered design at Princeton University. Jessica’s mission is to help people co-create a world where solutions to societal problems take humans into consideration and are designed with empathy at the core. Through directing Keller Center’s Tiger Challenge and teaching ENT 200, Jessica guides teams of students in honing…
Anne-Marie Maman is Executive Director of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, which works to engage and educate Princeton-connected entrepreneurs of all levels, on campus, in our community, and in locations around the world. PEC also actively engages with the greater NJ entrepreneurial ecosystem. Princeton Entrepreneurship Council has…
"I believe graduate students and PhDs can be agents of innovation, change, and leadership both inside and outside of academia."
“Leading this venture capital cohort is so much fun since we’re teaching these grad students who are brilliant experts in their respective fields of study a topic with which most of them are not very familiar. I’ve enjoyed getting to know many of them better and am excited about their innovative startup ideas. Hopefully, once they are ready to raise outside capital, they’ll be a little better prepared after taking this class.”
As the Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement for Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, Don manages a number of initiatives to engage alumni across the Princeton entrepreneurial community – with each other and with both faculty and students. These initiatives include a wide range of educational programs, conferences, startup showcases, and a…
Wright Seneres co-founded and co-leads the Princeton Podcasters Network, which is a group for podcasters on campus to share knowledge, best practices and guidance on podcasting at Princeton. He is also an advisor to the GradFUTURES Podcasting and New Media Group and co-teaches a Wintersession course on starting a podcast.
After earning a PhD in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, I gained postdoctoral research experience in materials chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and then at Princeton University in the laboratory of Professor Robert Cava. Following an internship at an early stage venture fund, the Royal Society Enterprise Fund, I later…
Tianxia Xiao is a rising fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. During her undergraduate study, she researched the chemical aspect of pesticide safety with Professor John E. Casida. She graduated magna cum laude with a double major in Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Economics and Policy from UC Berkeley in 2017. In…