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2018 Faculty Entrepreneurship and Innovation Workshops – Photos

2018 Faculty Entrepreneurship and Innovation Workshops – Photos

Faculty from across many colleges and disciplines at Georgia State University came together May 14-18, 2018, to participate in the inaugural Faculty Entrepreneurship & Innovation Workshops.

The workshops were divided into three different tracks: problem-based learning, led by Elizabeth Strickler of the Creative Media Industries Institute; main street entrepreneurs, led by Leonard Jackson of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business; and translating discoveries into products and enterprises, led by Brandy Stanfield-Nagel of Georgia Tech.

Check out the photo galleries below! Click on the photo to enlarge and show its caption.

PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING

All students at Georgia State, regardless of major, should learn how to frame their studies and careers in terms of innovative problem solving. Participants in this track learned how to bring a fresh outlook to their own research and how to impart an entrepreneurial mindset upon students. Faculty learned from professors of practice who are experienced in social entrepreneurship and who have also developed instructional materials that challenge students to solve problems in new and creative ways.

Click to enlarge and view captions. Photos were taken during a design-thinking exercise on May 14 that combined participants from both the problem-based learning and the translating discoveries tracks that day.

  • Jaye Atkinson (left) and Marcia Jones Cross (right) participate in the faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018
  • Jyotsna Thota (left) and Anne Murphy (right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Liana Artinian (left) and Stacey Wallen (right) confer at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop held at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Lorenzo Almada (left) and Jyotsna Thota (right) talk before the first session of the "Problem-Based Learning" track in the faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops held at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Faculty at a work table during a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Faculty gather around a table to select supplies for a design-thinking exercise. Left, foreground: Marcia Jones Cross. Right, foreground: Tim Denning.
  • Mary Beth Walker (left) and Huanbiao Mo (right), attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Olga Glebova and Gilad Rabinovitch work on a project during a design-thinking exercise at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop held by Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Post it notes of ideas at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop held at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Robert Harrison (left) and Anne Murphy (right) at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • The rush to the supply table: Faculty members participating in a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018 rush to grab supplies for a design thinking activity.
  • Art supplies for the Problem-Based Learning design-thinking activity.
  • Ashwin Ashok (left) and Olga Glebova (right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Brennan Collins (left), a professor in the Georgia State University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, participates in a Faculty Entrepreneurship & Innovation Workshop on May 14, 2018.
  • Elizabeth Strickler (right, foreground) instructs a class at the Georgia State University Faculty Entrepreneurship and Innovation workshops on May 14, 2018. Background, left: Charlie Benson.
  • Faculty select creative supplies for a design-thinking activity at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop session in the "Problem Based Learning" track at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018. Foreground, left: Stacey Wallen. Right, foreground: Jaye Atkinson. Background, right, standing: Geert de Vries.
  • Faculty build items during a design-thinking session in the Problem-Based Learning track.
  • Faculty at a work table during a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.
  • Faculty create during the Problem-Based Learning track.
  • Geert de Vries (left) and Charlie Benson (right) participate in a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 14, 2018.

Additional gallery from Elizabeth Strickler, taken May 18. 

  • Table discussion - Screens on
  • At a table
  • Sarah Cook and Stacey Wallen
  • Faculty around table
  • Discussion 2
  • Going over a worksheet
  • discussion
  • Discussion
  • Marcia Jones Cross and Olga Glebova
  • Sheryl Moss, Sarah Cook, Stacey Wallen and Brennan Collins
  • Reading and talking
  • Group speaks at a table

MAIN STREET ENTREPRENEURS

This track drew faculty from a diverse range of academic disciplines, including business, social sciences, the natural and computational sciences, health care, public health, and law, among others. Participants learned about accounting, business regulations, fundraising and intellectual property rights. Topics also included concept development, branding, venture financing and pitching project ideas.

Click to enlarge and view captions. Photos were taken May 15. 

  • Leonard Jackson opens the May 15, 2018 session of the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track in a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop series held by Georgia State University.
  • Cassady Brewer (left), Imoh Okon (center) and Gennady Cymbalyuk (right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.
  • Leonard Jackson (center) served as instructor for the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track of the Georgia State University faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops held May 15, 2018.
  • David Washburn (left), Vonetta Dotson (center) and Katherine Masyn (far right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.
  • Frances Chen (foreground, left) and Lindsey Cohen (foreground, right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track. Background, right, looking forward: Jessie Cino. Background, right, looking at computer: Jenny Yang.
  • Frances Chen (left) and Pam Cushenan (right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.
  • Jenny Yang (foreground) speaks at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.
  • Jessie Cino, Associate Dean of Law, works during a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.
  • Sheryl Strasser (leaning toward table), Kinda Abdus-Saboor (left) and Petrus Martens (right) attend a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.
  • Leonard Jackson gives a presentation during a class session at the faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops held at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018.
  • Perry Binder gives a talk at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 15, 2018 in the "Mainstreet Entrepreneurs" track.

TRANSLATING DISCOVERY INTO PRODUCTS AND ENTERPRISES FOR SCIENTISTS

This track was aimed at faculty from STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines whose research is ready, or moving towards being ready, to translate into patents and commercialization. Participants learned more about the art of brainstorming and improvisation and design thinking, and the track included a panel on faculty commercialization.

Click to enlarge and view captions. Photos were taken May 16.

  • Brandy Stanfield-Nagel of Georgia Tech explains the concept of radical candor at the Georgia State faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops on May 16, 2018 in the translating discoveries track
  • Vincent La Terza (left) Huanbiao Mo (right) talk during a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation session at Georgia State University on May 16, 2018
  • Post-it notes with ideas
  • Session of the translating discoveries track
  • Connie Casteel (center) of Georgia Tech speaks to participants at a Georgia State University faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop session on May 16, 2018.
  • (left-to-right )Connie Casteel of Georgia Tech, Nicole Morris of Emory University, and James Lillard of the Morehouse School of Medicine, participate in a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop at Georgia State University on May 16, 2018.
  • James Lillard (left) of the Morehouse School of Medicine speaks at a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop session at Georgia State University on May 16, 2018.
  • A list of abbreviations
  • Charlie Benson (left) and Bradley Farrell (right) listen to a speaker at a session of the faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops held at Georgia State University on May 16, 2018.
  • Hamed Laroui participates in a faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshop held at Georgia State University on May 16, 2018.
  • Mark Flowers (left) and Liana Artinian (right)
  • Priya Luthra participates in a session of the faculty entrepreneurship and innovation workshops on May 16, 2018.

– Jeremy Craig, Manager of Marketing & PR, Office of the Provost

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