Becoming the university of the future with VCU and Adobe
As the pace of change continues to accelerate, employers expect their workforce to embrace lifelong learning and skills development. To prepare students for their careers, universities and other higher education institutions are looking at new ways to teach students the essential skills needed to succeed. Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is closing the gap between career […]
VCU’s Shift Retail Lab recognized by Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards
Space operated by the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation earns an honorable mention in the Urban Design category of the magazine’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. Fast Company has named Shift Retail Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University as an honorable mention in the Urban Design category of the magazine’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. Shift Retail […]
Meadowbrook High student entrepreneurs win funding at Shark Tank event at Shift Retail Lab
The Meadowbrook Academy for Developing Entrepreneurs (MADE) kicked off their inaugural Shark Tank event hosted at the VCU da Vinci Center Shift Retail Lab. Meadowbrook High’s Shark Tank project began at the start of the 2021-22 school year, when the Chesterfield Education Foundation connected the Meadowbrook Academy for Developing Entrepreneurs with a Fund for Entrepreneurial […]
VCU Demo Day 2022 Awards
Thank you to those that were able to participate in our first in-person Demo Day and livestream since 2019! It was a rousing success for us at da Vinci. Congratulations to the teams that earned Seed Funding Awards! C’est La Vie, Entrepreneur: Yosef Mirakov CohenKBHealth, Entrepreneur: Amir BehdaniNoodlers, Entrepreneur: Peyton SpanglerBetter2Gether, presented by entrepreneurs: Bella Lubinskas, Brenna […]
VCU to open SHIFT Retail Lab giving student entrepreneurs retail, office spaces
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Virginia Commonwealth University will be opening a Shift Retail Lab, which gives former and current students at the university a chance to showcase their work, giving them retail and office spaces. “While student founders will be able to sell their products in the Shift Retail Lab, the main goal is to […]
Incoming VCU Engineering students now have a chance to earn a credential in user-experience design
Before classes begin this fall, the College of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University will offer its incoming first-year students the opportunity to earn an “Introduction to Design Thinking” credential from the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation. “This industry-recognized credential is part of our overall strategy to provide a modern engineering education,” said Gregory E. Triplett, […]
Innovation, entrepreneurship & academics
If the future of higher education were up to Garret Westlake, it would be about “taking risks, not tests.” Happily, in his position as Executive Director of the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation, Westlake stands a good chance of making that happen. Case in point: A da Vinci student recently approached Westlake with an idea for […]
VCU da Vinci Center leader discusses COVID-19 health care innovations
As part of its ongoing series of virtual conversations about business-related impacts of COVID-19, the VCU School of Business on April 21, welcomed Garret Westlake for a 45-minute dialogue to address the topic of “COVID-19 Health Care Innovations.” Westlake is executive director of the da Vinci Center, a collaboration of VCU’s schools of Business and the Arts, and colleges of Engineering and Humanities and Sciences that advances […]
