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UVM wins a $6 million National Science Foundation award to turn research into real-world uses
INVEST by the numbers
- $6 million
- from the National Science Foundation
- 9
- research teams will get seed funding
- 4 years
- of INVEST ahead
Sources: Burlington Free Press, WPTZ
If you're a UVM faculty member, graduate student or postdoc with a promising idea, there's new help on the way. The university received a $6 million National Science Foundation award to launch INVEST, which will offer training, mentorship and seed funding to turn discoveries into technologies, services and other practical uses.
- Focus: food systems, complex systems and biomedical engineering
- Mentoring institution: Cornell University
- Also planned: innovation incubators, micro-certificates and fellowships
Sara Helms Cahan, UVM's associate vice president for research and INVEST director, said the goal is to give researchers "the skills, resources and supportive environment they need to turn their work into something that people and communities can use." She added that a university is "an engine of economic development, especially for rural states."
$150,000up to, for the largest team awards over two years
Those awards are expected to help research teams build prototypes, find potential users and explore licensing or startups.
Source: Burlington Free Press
