Topic: entrepreneurship
Student-Founded Startup Develops Rapid Lyme Test
Tulane senior Dylan Murray’s company created a rapid kit that identifies infected ticks before symptoms surface.
Impression: Kelly Jacques
Food & Wine Best New Chef credits Tulane roots for shaping her path to Ayu Bakehouse.
A Recipe for Remembrance
A collaboration between a Tulane professor and a restaurateur couple highlights the richness of Holocaust survivors’ lives before the war.
NOLA Startups and AI
The Tulane University New Orleans Startup Report cites AI and machine learning as having the largest impact on entrepreneurial activity in the region.
Impression: Bud Brimberg
As part of a class project, Bud Brimberg created the idea of the New Orleans Heritage and Jazz Festival poster. Soon after, he created the first item in what was to become BayouWear.
Provost’s Proof Of Concept Fund
The Tulane Innovation Institute, in collaboration with Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Robin Forman, has launched the Provost’s Proof of Concept Fund to provide competitive grants of up to $50,000 to help university faculty, graduate students or staff get promising ideas and technologies ready for the market.https://tulane.it/provost-proof-fund
Greener Polymers
In 1997, Tulane physics professor Wayne Reed developed a technology in his lab to make the production of polymers — which are used to create plastics and other widely used products — greener and more efficient.
Startup Fund
The Tulane Innovation Institute was awarded $5 million from the state, part of the U.S. Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative, to support entrepreneurs and small business owners. And Tulane matched the award with another $5 million, enabling the Innovation Institute to launch a new startup fund dedicated to creating opportunities for women- and minority-led ventures in Louisiana.
Innovators
The Tulane Innovation Institute hired Clay Christian as its first director of commercialization intelligence and assessment and Matt Koenig as the executive director of intellectual property management. Christian was previously responsible for cultivating relationships between the School of Medicine’s research enterprise and outside collaborators. Koenig served as the director of intellectual property management for the University of Kansas.https://tulane.it/innovators-2022
