July 25, 2024
Angel Cups put safety first
Three budding entrepreneurs develop a concept for a disposable cup that will detect date-rape drugs when they are added to a drink.
CIE
Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
WHO IS IT FOR?
All students! Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) aims to foster creativity, entrepreneurial ingenuity, willingness to take risks, resilience, and competence in addressing problems and challenges for all students.
WHAT’S INVOLVED?
Startups, research, food, incubation, cool people, funding, innovation, co-working, jobs, mentorship, travel - you get the idea!
Richmond Innovation Fellows Application Now Open
The Richmond Innovation Fellows (RIF) program is an interdisciplinary three-part academic and experiential sequence empowering students to become agents of change. Though ideas are welcome, it is not a prerequisite. Through RIF, students will identify and solve problems across a non-profit, startup, and corporate settings in both local and global contexts.
2024-25 RIF Application:
Deadline November 1, Apply now: https://forms.gle/VznG5tLhsysAGbfT9
QUESTIONS?
For questions, please email Somiah Lattimore, Senior Director of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Initiative, Office of the Provost
Upcoming Events
Feature Stories
April 18, 2024
Grant News
University of Richmond Receives Grant to Support Richmond Innovation Fellows Program
The University of Richmond’s Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative has received a $50,000 grant from the Joan and Morgan Massey Foundation to support the Richmond Innovation Fellows program.
April 22, 2024
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Venturing in
The Richmond Innovations Fellows is the latest Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program to help students launch their own businesses.
March 10, 2023
Student Experience
Spider students mix up energy drink with a chill twist
An entrepreneurial course helped students create, market, and sell a drink that boosts energy, minus the jitters.
In the News
April 26, 2024
NOOSH eggplant dip from UR students hits market
This story highlights a student-run business resulting from the Bench Top Innovations program through the Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative.
April 22, 2024
NOOSH eggplant dip from UR students hits market
This story highlights a student-run business resulting from the Bench Top Innovations program through the Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative.
February 23, 2024
Richmond Food News: Feb. 22-28
This story mentions a student-run business resulting from the Bench Top Innovations program through the Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative.
February 14, 2024
UR students launch new snack dip brand cooked up in the classroom
Marketing lecturer Joel Mier is quoted in this piece on the Bench Top Innovations program, which was also published on WTVR – CBS 6.
Contact
For questions, please email Somiah Lattimore
Senior Director of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Initiative
Office of the Provost