StartUp’s Spring Focus is Social Entrepreneurship

by Sari Judge Every spring, residents of the StartUp Learning Community—a residence hall-based group of 64 self-selected first year students with a professed interest in entrepreneurship—can register to take our spring seminar, available only to …

Innovation: Who benefits and who’s barred?

By Clare Becker In 1886, Shelbyville, Illinois resident Josephine Cochran noticed her dishes were getting chipped from constantly washing them by hand. Female patent holders were few and far between back then, but that didn’t …