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UMass Boston’s Entrepreneur Scholarships Announced
UMass Boston’s Entrepreneur Scholarship founder, Dan Phillips Two more recipients of UMass Boston’s Entrepreneur Scholarship have been named. They are biochemistry major Sarah DuBois-Coyne and management information systems major Nezar Lila. Environmental...
read moreUMass Boston’s Venture Development Center Hits $1 Billion Funding Milestone
The Venture Development Center (VDC) at the University of Massachusetts Boston has supported 102 start-up companies now employing 1,128 people, helped them raise more than $1 billion in investments, and engaged nearly 2,000 students over the 10 years since its...
read moreHow Does the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program Work?
A solution for entrepreneurs struggling with the uncertainty and limitations of the U.S. visa system “The Global Entrepreneur in Residence program seemed too good to be true, and we were skeptical at the beginning. But a couple of months after we engaged, we had the...
read moreHow Marc Pomplun launches his CS students
Is there any greater accolade than a student saying that a project has been the most meaningful and valuable experience of her undergraduate career? According to Kristen Laird (pictured), that’s what one of her teammates said about their capstone project, which they...
read more“Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me About the Rewarding Careers in Startupland?”
UMass Boston grad Gabriela Veloz ('14) and her CloudHealth Technologies colleagues talked to UMass Boston students about career opportunities in venture-backed startup companies. Remember those times when you'd wish someone just a little ahead of you would tell you...
read moreHack.Diversity Selects Nine UMass Boston Students for Fellowship
Ariana Gardner, University of Massachusetts Boston computer science grad & 2018 Hack.Diversity Fellow When the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) launched Hack.Diversity in 2016, they did so with the goal of addressing the underrepresentation of...
read moreUMass steps up to assist hardtech startups like no other university
With all of the technical resources available in the Kendall Square area, why do Cambridge-based Platelet BioGenesis scientists travel to the UMass Boston campus one day per week to use the animal facility and confocal microscope? According to Lea Beaulieu, Platelet’s...
read moreWhy Michael Bloomberg Turned to This UMass Boston Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence to Show the Way Ahead
One of the global entrepreneurs-in-residence at the UMass Boston Venture Development Center quite unexpectedly received an invitation from Michael Bloomberg to attend Bloomberg’s inaugural New Economy Forum (NEF) in Singapore on November 6-7 2018. Her name is Fanyu...
read moreUMass Boston’s First Entrepreneur Scholarship Awarded
Maria Vasco is the recipient of UMass Boston’s inaugural Entrepreneur Scholarship. She is a School for the Environment major in the Honors College passionate about changing plastic packaging in the beauty industry, and eventually founding a plastics alternative...
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