Category results for: Office of Innovation and Strategic Design
VCU Space Camp 2026: VCU Brandcenter students pitch patent refresh to NASA with the da Vinci Center
The da Vinci Center for Innovation and the VCU Brandcenter kicked off the fall semester with a first-of-its-kind collaboration with NASA Langley Research Center’s Tech Transfer Program. In a single day, teams of students were handed real NASA-patented technologies and asked to imagine what these inventions could become right here on Earth. The result was […]
Shifting what’s possible in K-12 education: A Q&A with Shift Education Lab director Brandin Conrath
VCU’s Shift Labs bring students, faculty and community partners into the same room to test bold ideas and build practical solutions. Supported by the Office of Innovation and Strategic Design, the Shift Education Lab is where that work meets the K-12 classroom. We talked with director Brandin Conrath, Ph.D., about what it means to “shift” […]