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Past Event
Supercharging Nature To Make Products: Towards a Global, Secure, and Equitable Bio-Based Economy
Corporate Engagement - Industry Events
11:00 AM
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Are you interested in leveraging the power of biological systems to enable technological breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and chemicals? Join us for the webinar.
Wednesday, December 2 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST
Join Northwestern University's Corporate Engagement team for a webinar on Synthetic Biology, led by Dr. Michael Jewett, PhD, the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University.
Registration is required to attend this free webinar. Upon registration, you will receive a link that is unique to your email address, so please do not share it. The webinar will be recorded and shared with all those who have registered.
Speaker Bio:
Michael Jewett is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University. Dr. Jewett received his PhD in 2005 at Stanford University, completed postdoctoral studies at the Center for Microbial Biotechnology in Denmark and the Harvard Medical School, and was a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
He is the recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award in 2009, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2011, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011, Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2015, the ACS Biochemical Technologies Division Young Investigator Award in 2017, and a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, Life Sciences Category in 2019. Additionally, Jewett has co-founded 5 start-up companies (e.g., SwiftScale Biologics, Stemloop, Inc., Design Pharmaceuticals).
Time
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Corporate Engagement - Industry Events
Corporate Innovation Guest Speaker Series: Nick Renold
Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
4:00 PM
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ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.
Nick Renold was the seventh employee of Titan Aerospace, a startup that designed and built solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. He eventually took over as COO, and in 2014, Google purchased Titan Aerospace. He now works on Project Wing, Google’s drone delivery initiative.
Time
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
VentureCat 2024 Public Showcase
The Garage
6:00 PM
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White Auditorium, Kellogg Global Hub
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VentureCat is Northwestern’s annual student startup competition and celebrates the University’s most promising student founders.
The program culminates in a pitch competition in which a prize pool of non-dilutive prize money is distributed to student ventures.
Join us on Wednesday, May 22 at 6 PM CT for the Public Showcase where we will feature the six finalist teams and their pitches. You will get the chance to vote to award our audience favorite prize and we will announce our finals prize winners–including the grand prize of $100,000. This year, we're welcoming past grand-prize winners, Ben Preston '21 and Charlotte Oxnam '23, back to the VentureCat stage as the event MC's!
Our 25 semifinalist teams span five tracks - Business Products & Services; Consumer Products & Services; Energy & Sustainability; Life Sciences & Medical Innovation; and Social Impact. Learn more about the selected startups in our announcement here.
This event is free and open to the public to attend. We're excited to offer a hybrid event, with an in-person showcase on Northwestern's Evanston campus and a livestream.
Time
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
White Auditorium, Kellogg Global Hub Map
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The Garage
Visions of Tomorrow: Navigating AI's Uncharted Territory
The Garage
5:15 PM
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The Garage, North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building
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Join us at The Garage to hear from Alex Castrounis, Founder & CEO at Why of AI, who will provide insight on the near future and the ideas pushing it forward.
Castrounis is the founder and CEO of Why of AI, a book author on AI, and an adjunct professor of AI for Northwestern University's Kellogg & McCormick MBAi program. He has over two decades of experience advising startups to Fortune 100 companies on using data, analytics, and AI models to drive business growth and customer success.
Time
Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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The Garage, North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building Map
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The Garage
Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
9:00 AM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
2:00 PM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
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Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Undergraduate Quantum Summer School
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
All Day
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Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application, and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), funded by the Department of Defense — National Defense Education Program, is extending an invitation to underrepresented students nationwide (including military-connected students) to participate in a summer school focused on quantum technologies, to be held at Northwestern University. Join us for presentations by faculty and industry partners introducing quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities particularly in the areas of national security.
This effort aims to foster an inclusive environment that encourages participation from all corners of the academic community. Successful applicants will receive up to $1,000 USD to cover travel and lodging expenses in Evanston, IL.
Priority application deadline: May 15, 2024.
Decisions will be sent by June 15, 2024.
Time
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Location
Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Undergraduate Quantum Summer School
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
All Day
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Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
Details
Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application, and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), funded by the Department of Defense — National Defense Education Program, is extending an invitation to underrepresented students nationwide (including military-connected students) to participate in a summer school focused on quantum technologies, to be held at Northwestern University. Join us for presentations by faculty and industry partners introducing quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities particularly in the areas of national security.
This effort aims to foster an inclusive environment that encourages participation from all corners of the academic community. Successful applicants will receive up to $1,000 USD to cover travel and lodging expenses in Evanston, IL.
Priority application deadline: May 15, 2024.
Decisions will be sent by June 15, 2024.
Time
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Location
Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science