RSVP<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\nThe sponsoring companies that make this valuable learning experience possible include KX Technologies, W.R. Grace, Scitech Solar, Proton OnSite, KX Technologies, RPM Sustainable Technologies, VeruTech, Nanostannate Film and BASF.<\/p>\n
The student entrepreneurs and their faculty advisors include Justine Jesse (adv. Dr. Jeffrey McCutcheon), Isaac Batty (adv. Dr. George Bollas), Kyle Stachowiak (adv. Dr. Brian Willis), Joseph Amato (adv. Dr. Radenka Maric), Zacharia Rueger (adv. Dr. Jeffrey McCutcheon), William Hale (adv. Dr. Richard Parnas), Kyle Karinshak (adv. Dr. Steve Suib), Urian Vue (adv. Dr. Puxian Gao), and Ryan Carpenter (adv. Dr. Leslie Shor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nine motivated student innovators will discuss their industry-sponsored research on Thursday, July 25 as featured guests at this month’s Innovation Connection networking event, to be held at Nerac starting at 3:30 PM. The students are participating in a National Science Foundation-sponsored summer program, called Research Experience for Undergraduates, at UConn that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship through partnerships with commercial companies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 17:32:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224516,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203670\/revisions\/224516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203670"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203670"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged as a sustaining pillar of the nation\u2019s economic competitiveness. But, how do we enable the ability to imagine new products and services, to conceptualize better ways of doing things, and then to successfully commercialize them? How do we nurture, reward and sustain spinoff companies and startups?\u00a0<\/p>\n