ASRC Center for Advanced Technology (CAT)

We're hiring! Our Nanoscience Initiative is looking for an administrative coordinator to add to it's amazing team. In addition to supporting the Initiative's administrative needs, you will work closely with staff from different initiatives and the ASRC Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) to catalyze transformative cross-disciplinary research and foster academic-industry relationships and entrepreneurship in STEM. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3M1Wd2L #Hiring #Jobs #Nanoscience #CUNY

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FuzeHub's 2024 Commercialization Competition application is open! 💰 Companies have the chance to be awarded up to $150,000. Learn more and apply here. Our CAT can help support accepted companies to attend and pitch at the annual NYTSAR Innovation Summit! https://lnkd.in/due8ka3 #pitchcompetition #innovation #manufacturing #NYS

Additional speakers announced for our upcoming Masterclass:Build a Fundable Commercial Plan to Optimize your Venture Value For more information visit: https://lu.ma/FXFMCsept Use code TAKE20 for 20 percent off.

🥗 💡 Accelerator Applications are now open! Communitas America is now accepting applications for Cohort 13 of the Communitas Ventures accelerator, running from September 25, 2024 to December 11, 2024 - with the focus of this cohort on food justice! More details here: https://lnkd.in/eS-fUV87 Apply by August 15, 2024! #nyc #accelerator #foodjustice #entrepreneurship

So grateful and excited to join the Cohort 2024 #ActivateFellow in the Activate New York Community! I get to spend the next two years learning from the @ActivateFellows community and contributing to the impact and science driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in New York. This is the place to be to transform scientific ideas into startups that reinvent our world. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"... Thank you to everyone who guided me step by step in this adventure! ASRC Center for Advanced Technology (CAT), Communitas America, Diversity Innovation Hub, New York I-Corps Hub, Newlab, Public Policy Lab and special thanks to James Scholtz and Ilse Nava-Medina for paving the path for CUNY entrepreneurs!

🌟 There are incredible resources for immigrant founders! Fernando Montejo and the New York City Economic Development Corporation are hosting an event next week for founders or prospective founders who are immigrants and are trying to figure out their visa options. This may also be relevant for founders who are looking to support other key executives through the visa process. See below for details and RSVP! #entrepreneurship #stem

New Startup Funding Opportunity: National Science Foundation (NSF) releases Fast-Track phase I ($400k) and phase II ($1.1mil) non-dilutive company grants for tech R&D (due September 18th). Have you completed the required "Customer Discovery"? Take your first NSF I-Corp class this summer with the New York I-Corps Hub

🎨 🔬 Opening Tomorrow! Our Fall 2023 Entrepreneurship Course alum, Jessica Das, will be exhibiting her project at the Chashama Art Gallery! Jessica is one of the co-founders of Our Collective Fabric // The Microbiome, creating take-home science kits for all ages to "visualize how we are all interconnected like the invisible fabric of our microbes within our bodies". Jessica took the Fall entrepreneurship course to better understand key business processes of scientific innovation - leveraging both knowledge and funding provided to move her project forward. Tomorrow night, June 21st from 6-9PM, Our Collective Fabric will be opening at the ChaShaMa Gallery in the Upper East Side. Please consider checking out her work! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dYt_kPM7 If you are or know of a CUNY graduate student interested in Entrepreneurship and Tech transfer, reach out to us about our Fall 2024 course! The City University of New York Hunter College The Graduate Center, City University of New York #STEAM #STEM #Art #Entrepreneurship #Students

The CAT is proud to support United States Senate Sen. Schumer and the National Science Foundation (NSF) with US investment in workforce development here in NYS. CUNY has an incredibly talented student pool that is as diverse as NYC, and at CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY these students can learn and train in the most advanced Nanofabrication Facility in NYC.   Industry Partnerships, like this with GlobalFoundries, are positive steps in the right direction toward a massive effort required to build a sustainable STEM workforce. We welcome investment at CUNY together with our partners to grow our efforts at the ASRC-GC. Read Tavis Ezell's comments below in this exciting news release from GF. https://lnkd.in/eqi7QPB3 The City University of New York The Graduate Center, City University of New York #semiconductor #workforcedevelopment #tech #talent #hiring #nyc