Sara Cahan
University of Vermont, VT·Education Research
Rural regions often struggle to turn university discoveries into local jobs, companies and tools. They have trouble attracting and keeping talent, infrastructure and other resources.
- Fields
Education Research
Social Science
- Topics
translational research
innovation ecosystem
technology transfer
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Sep 2030
What they work on
- Create INVEST, a university-wide initiative at the University of Vermont that provides training and resources to turn laboratory discoveries into practical applications, products and tools.
- Expand graduate education beyond a strictly academic focus to encourage graduates to take and keep non-academic jobs in Vermont, growing the regional knowledge-economy workforce.
- Speed the transfer of university research into Vermont's emerging technology sectors in areas tied to the needs of a highly rural state with an aging population.
More about the research
This grant supports INVEST (Identifying and Nurturing Vermont's Emerging Strategic Technologies), a new university-wide initiative at the University of Vermont. Its goal is to give researchers the setting, training and resources to turn academic research into practical benefits for society. It has a particular focus on the economic health of rural communities in a small, highly rural state with an aging population.
Why it matters
By helping university research become useful products and tools, and by preparing graduate students for careers outside academia, the initiative could strengthen innovation economies in rural Vermont. It could also help keep skilled graduates in the region and support technology sectors suited to a rural state with an aging population.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Bryan Boudouris
University of Alabama, AL·Engineering
Develop an evidence-based curriculum that trains postdoctoral researchers and graduate students in translational research and prepares them for non-academic careers.
Parag Chitnis
University of Wyoming, WY·Social Science
Create the Wyoming Translation Research Accelerator, a university-wide program that replaces the traditional market-push commercialization model with a market-driven approach to use-inspired research.
Timothy Miller
Saint Francis University, PA·Education Research
Build innovation capacity at each of five primarily undergraduate institutions, developing campus structures for industry partnerships, entrepreneurship, experiential learning and research suited to undergraduate-focused colleges.
The school
University of Vermont: 16 labs on PI Pages, $246M a year on research, 76 research doctorates a year.
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