Innovation and Research Week enters its ninth year today, celebrating and recognizing world-class research and discovery at UNMC.
Innovation and Research Week
The ninth annual Innovation and Research Week will be held all this week.
Every fall, UNeMed sponsors Innovation and Research Week, a popular series of events that honor innovators at UNMC, and helps educate and inform faculty, staff and students. This year, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is collaborating on the event.
In addition to an awards ceremony, Innovation and Research Week also raises awareness about technology transfer relevant subjects, including intellectual property, sponsored research opportunities, collaborating with industry partners, and research funding opportunities.
For a day-by-day breakdown of Innovation and Research Week events, click here for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research website.
Hosted by UNMC’s technology transfer office, UNeMed Corporation, Innovation and Research Week begins with an open house at 9 a.m. today at the Durham Research Center.
In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, this year marks the first major expansion of Innovation and Research Week to include more than a dozen new events that incorporates UNMC’s innovative educational practices and basic science research. The new events include several seminars, workshops and hands-on demonstrations.
All events are free and open to the public, but the iPad drawing is for UNMC faculty, students and staff only. They may register for the drawing by attending any UNeMed-sponsored event. Further details can be found here.
Today’s open house, which runs from 9 to 11 a.m., is a chance to meet UNeMed staffers, learn about the innovation process, and pick up a free T-shirt and other goodies.
Later today, alternate science careers will be explored during a 2 p.m. panel discussion featuring four successful scientists who moved away from the research bench.
Other highlights this week include:
- Tuesday – Adam Ruben, Ph.D., author of the popular book, “Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School” will present at 2 p.m. in the Durham Research Center Auditorium. Dr. Ruben also will perform a second show in the evening, “Public Perception of Science: Lessons from a Dead Sheep” in the Sorrell Center.
- Tuesday – An all-day open house will expose the most sophisticated medical training tools in the world at the new Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL℠). Stop by the Sorrell Center to see the future of health care education.
- Tuesday – From noon to 1 p.m., the Sorrell Center will feature a simulated medical scenario pitting two medical student groups against one another in a one-hour contest called “Mission SimPossible.”
- Wednesday – UNMC Technology Demo Day will enter its third year, featuring new technologies, inventions and startups that are either based on UNMC innovations, or are innovative startups working to help further UNMC research.
- Thursday – The UNMC Research Innovation Awards Ceremony and Reception will recognize all the UNMC scientists over the previous year who were issued a new patent, licensed a technology, or developed a new invention. UNeMed also will present special awards for the “Most Promising New Invention of 2015” and the “2015 Innovator of the Year.”
- Friday – Events include a Clinical Research Center Open House and presentations, including a morning tour of the variety of core facilities on campus so investigators can learn about new technology to advance their research.