Empowering Communities in Little Bang! Poster Competition JusCheckIt is developing an easy-to-use search engine that helps people understand their basic legal rights, the laws and the legal process, and provides access to legal representation.

JusCheckIt’s concept and team has been in development for the last six months, with our focus being toward defining our core market and evaluating potential long-term revenue streams. Over the course of the next year, we plan to compete in the full slate of Little Bang! and Big Bang!

UPublish is on a mission to increase access to knowledge by reducing  publishing costs.

On March 13, 2020, the chief science advisors of 16 countries—including the U.S., Germany, India and China—sent an open letter to the scholarly publishing community stating “To assist efforts to contain and mitigate the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, basic science research and innovation will be vital to addressing this global crisis.

UC Davis Students, Alum Win Poster Competition Award Blog by Team Hitcher

Hitcher is a community-oriented ridesharing app that helps connect city dwellers and local communities to coordinate transportation for day-to-day errands and commutes.

Lessons learned as a Blackstone LaunchPad Fellow

by Raiza Pilatowsky Gruner | Geography Ph.D. | Co-founder, Planeteando

Note: Economics and design double-major undergraduate Julie Xu wrote this blog about team Sorbit’s entrepreneurial experiences in 2018. Sorbit won a $250 competition award and a 500 Venture Well / TEAM BioInnovation award in the November 2018 Little Bang! Poster Competition: Session 1. Xu is also a 2018/19 EQUIP scholar.

 

This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the smart, engaged, innovative students and post-docs in our Business Development and Keller Pathway Fellowship programs.

Read how their research will better our world:

Conference ignites student entrepreneurs

The 9th annual Ignite Conference (March 6–9, 2019) brought entrepreneurial students from multiple disciplines and universities together with business professionals and startup founders in an intensive four-day conference at UC Davis.

Blog Post by Diane Dou, Ph.D. Candidate and 2018/17 Business Development Fellow

Ignite is an exciting annual program that is brought to life through a partnership between UC Davis and Rice University. The Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship collaborated to bring me and 74 other graduate students of diverse backgrounds to the frontlines in Silicon Valley.

The prize money escaped us, but the opportunity to pitch pays off in countless other ways.

My heart pounded, my head throbbed, and feverish chills gripped me as I anxiously awaited my turn to pitch. As a finalist at Blackstone LaunchPad Powered by Techstars, RePurpose Energy was one of six teams competing for a $10,000 prize, and I felt less than ready to rise to the challenge.

Watching fellow students pitch at the LaunchPad Propel conference was an incredibly inspiring experience. As a student entrepreneur myself, I understand how much work and time goes into making a startup successful.

Because of the nature of English Khadavu, my nonprofit organization based in India, its progress can sometimes move very slowly.