Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I+E) Fellows
Explore innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities as a student fellow in the College of Design. The college’s entrepreneurial student fellows experience first-hand how design and business intersect, engage, and elevate one another through a design consultancy class. Student fellows in innovation provide student leadership in dreaming their own (and the college’s) future.
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Core Design student engagement
Design students are empowered to become future social innovators with the potential to improve human existence through design. Through the College of Design’s Start Something initiative, first-year students in the Core Design Program are introduced to Core + Care, an initiative where they explore the idea of care – for oneself, the individual to the group, the group to the individual, and the group to the greater community.
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Faculty and Staff I+E Cohort
The college’s faculty and staff are directly engaging with innovation and entrepreneurship as they help students, their peers, the college, the university, and Iowa as a whole grow. As Innovation Scholars and Fellows, design faculty and staff guide students through a diverse range of interests in their areas of research and scholarship.
The 2022-2024 cohort members are:
Scholars: Patrick Finley, Daejin Kim, Raluca Iancu, and Jiwnath Ghimire
Fellows: Diane Al Shihabi, Roman Chikerinets, Leila Ammar, Julie Stevens, Dan Neubauer, Jen Hogan, and Ingrid Lilligren
Support our initiatives
There are two ways to contribute a gift to the college’s I+E efforts.
The first option is to mail a check with a note that specifies the designation: College of Design Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund. Mail to Iowa State University Foundation, 2505 University Blvd., P.O. Box 2230, Ames, IA 50010-2230.
The second option is to make a gift online. For “Selected Designation,” select “I want to support a fund not listed” and type “College of Design Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund” in the notes section.
Student Innovation Center
The Student Innovation Center is the nexus on Iowa State’s campus where all Cyclones are invited to innovate. All students can utilize makerspaces and attend events, and the College of Design offers a number of classes and opportunities throughout the building.
A Cyclone in the Making
Find your place at Iowa State University’s College of Design, where we like to ask questions, poke and prod, create something new, and make a difference through design.