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AURP announces the launch of its Regional Partnership Development Program: Scholarship Grant. This new program (spearheaded by Dan Duncan, AURP Immediate Past President; Chair of AURP's Member/Sponsor Committee; and Executive Director of the Nebraska Innovation Campus) aims to support our members in developing relationships, within their regions, with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) that could lead to significant partnerships. Via this program, AURP will make scholarships available to applying members to bring potential HBCU and MSI partners to AURP events and meetings. 
AURP announces the launch of a collaboration with the State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) to join in implementing components of a new U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant that aims to accelerate technology-based economic development (TBED) across the country. Under EDA’s recently announced award to form a TBED Community of Practice, AURP will collaborate with SSTI over a four-year period in developing practical education and training content – including online toolkits, interactive webinars and white papers – on planning, building or expanding research parks, innovation districts or regional collaborations. Read more.
Resources & Announcements
A research announcement to leverage the unique microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS) for in-space production applications within the biomedical community is now open through February 28, 2023.

The ISS National Laboratory is specifically soliciting research concepts that seek to enhance tissue engineering and biomaterials that could be developed or manufactured in low Earth orbit (LEO). Through in-space production and manufacturing efforts, the ISS National Lab seeks to enable new business models that can grow capital investment and develop a robust market in LEO. Learn more.
SSTI has an open position for a Program Director to work on key elements of tech-based economic development, including: technology translation and commercialization, entrepreneurship, regional strategies and high-skill workforce. Responsibilities include building a community around one or more areas of broad interest to SSTI’s stakeholders, such as engaging individuals from across the country to participate in the community and developing education and research agendas that address common concerns. Learn more.
#AURP Member & Industry News
The Ohio State University has announced the new name of the growing innovation district on the university’s west campus: Carmenton.
Ohio State President Kristina M. Johnson (in photo) joined government, industry and university leaders last month in Carmenton to highlight the progress in the district and point to the future. Carmenton offers proximity to researchers and innovators, to the university, to downtown Columbus and to the central Ohio region. Read more.
The Milwaukee Regional Innovation Center has appointed Mark Johnson to succeed Guy Mascari as Executive Director. Johnson will manage the operations of the Milwaukee County Research Park and the Technology Innovation Center, the Research Park’s full-service business incubator. Johnson was formerly the executive director and business incubation program manager for the Whitewater University Technology Park and Innovation Center. Read more.
A major new development - 4MLK - at the University of Maryland BioPark in downtown Baltimore will be the center of gravity for researchers, innovators, experts and entrepreneurs. 4MLK aims to serve as a gateway between the BioPark, UMB, and the University of Maryland Medical Center. The 8-story, 250,000-square-foot building - Phase I of a two phase project - will provide critical wet lab space for researchers and companies, flexible lab and office/support space for start-ups, and Class A office space, along with areas for convening and a conference center. Planned opening is summer 2024. Read more.
The University of Cincinnati (UC) last month celebrated the grand opening of its Digital Futures building, a facility for interdisciplinary research, in the Cincinnati Innovation District. To celebrate the facility's opening, UC hosted an open house where hundreds toured the six-story building and its more than 20 interdisciplinary research labs. Led by faculty from across UC’s campus, the labs will be used to conduct collaborative, interdisciplinary and applied research, creating new knowledge and developing solutions to real-world problems. Read more. 
A biomanufacturing workforce training center (BWTC) program is coming to the Oklahoma City Innovation District. The program, one of the only programs of its kind in the U.S., will enable the formation of inclusive, non-degreed biomanufacturing careers in the OKC Innovation District. The Biomanufacturing Workforce Training Center is one of six core investment projects set to expand the region’s biotechnology industry, bolstering domestic resiliency within the biopharmaceutical supply chain and making the cluster more globally competitive. Read more. 
New York City and State leadership have partnered with the City University of New York (CUNY) to launch the Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC) Kips Bay, a first-of-its kind innovation hub that will include new, modern facilities for over 4,500 students from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), the Hunter College School of Nursing and School of Health Sciences and the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s multiple health care programs. Read more.
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Check out the AURP Career Center to discover your next career opportunity, including:

  • Executive Director, Whitewater University Technology Park and Community Engagement Center
  • Vice President for Research, University of Tennessee System
  • Chief Financial Officer, Oklahoma City Innovation District
  • Program Director, SSTI
  • Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Michigan State University
  • Associate Vice President for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Texas Tech University
  • Director, Strategic Content, Cincinnati Innovation District (University of Cincinnati)
  • Licensing Associate 1/2, Office of Innovation, University of Cincinnati
  • Director, Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator (MEIA)
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