Science & Technology | Mike and Renée Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Dr. Benjamin Wang Develops and Donates Safer Breathing Tubes

by Christina
July 17, 2020

Human & Animal Health

NeVap, founded by Benjamin Wang, helped create Adopt A Hero, an organization dedicated to provide supplies to medical personnel in Mexico. Ben has donated breathing tubes to aid Mexican healthcare workers in areas where COVID-19 is surging. NeVap won the 2014 Big Bang! Business Competition. Read the article >

Pam Marrone

Business Partner
Founder and CEO, Marrone Bio Innovations

Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) is co-sponsoring the 2020 Big Bang! Business Competition’s First Place Award, given to the top innovation across all categories. Pam Marrone founded MBI in 2006 to discover and develop effective and environmentally responsible, biologically based products for pest management and plant health. In August 2013 she led the company IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Andy (Che-An) Wu

EQUIP Alumnus

Andy (Che-An) Wu graduated with a B.S. in computer science. Andy’s career goal is to become a tech-entrepreneur and make a huge difference in this world. He is always looking for opportunities to become a better programmer and to make connections with other passionate individuals. Wu’s interests include software engineering, app development and artificial intelligence. Today he is a software engineer at Zscaler.

Karenna Rehorn

EQUIP Alumna

Karenna Rehorn is a current student studying biomedical engineering with an emphasis in cellular and tissue engineering. In the future she hopes to focus on helping individuals with autoimmune disorders. Rehorn is a DJ at the campus radio station, KDVS. Other interests include running, playing the flute, volunteering at the UC Davis farm and cooking. Today she is the president of the BioInnovation Group at UC Davis.

Reece Guyon

EQUIP Alumnus

Reece Guyon had grown, studied, worked and lived in England, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Germany before he entered UC Davis. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering and a minor in history in June 2020. At UC Davis, Guyon has worked in campus security and is an intern at the UC Davis Coffee Center, the first multidisciplinary university research center to address the challenges and needs of the coffee industry through a holistic approach to coffee science and education. Today he is an associate optical field engineer at LightRiver Companies (Concord, Calif.)

Startup of the Month: RAIVES

by Christina
June 02, 2020

Human & Animal Health

Hospital assistant at UC Davis Medical Center Tony Braham invented RAIVES, a patented medical device that helps organize medical equipment such as IVs, respiratory tubing and monitor cables in the intensive care unit. Read the article >

Andrew B. Hargadon

Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship
Professor of Technology Management, Graduate School of Management

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Gallagher Hall, Room 3316

Celebrating International Women’s Day

by Christina
May 28, 2020

Student Life

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:

The opening reception gave the 75 students attending Ignite a chance to meet and mingle.

Entrepreneurial Ambitions + Passion = Success

by Amir Bolandparvaz, Ph.D. Candidate and 2018/19 Business Development Fellow
May 28, 2020

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.

At Coinbase: learning about cryptocurrency (photo: Brad Burke)

Translating Passion and Mission into Purpose and Accomplishments

by Christina
May 28, 2020

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.