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February 2008

Entrepreneurship Program Receives NSF Grant

Wake Forest wins NSF grant to boost entrepreneurship through community partnerships.

COOK It UP! Arts Entrepreneurship Summit

The Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts presents Cook It UP! Arts Entrepreneurship Summit March 26, and April 2, 2008 on the campus of Wake Forest University.

In this series, innovative arts entrepreneurs will speak about their passion, their ventures and their art careers in a convivial environment of exchange open to the public. The objective of this forum is to showcase the dynamic, contemporary face of arts entrepreneurship today and to assert the essential role creativity and innovation plays in shaping the future.

COOK IT UP! ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT

    Wed. Mar 26, 5 – 8 pm, Ring Theater, Scales Fine Arts, Wake Forest Reynolda Campus

  • Maggie Orth, Artist and Founder/CEO of International Fashion Machines, Seattle (for profit)
  • Lou Mallozzi, Artist and Founder/Director of the Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago (not for profit) 4 - 5 pm Exhibition and Performance by Lou Mallozzi, Scales lobby


Wed. Apr 2, 5 – 8 pm, Luter Residence Hall, behind ZSR Library, Wake Forest Reynolda Campus

  • Amy Garland, Founder/Director, 5IVE and 40RTY, Arts marketer and PR relations, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Angus MacLachlan, Playwrite, Screenwriter, Theater Company Co-Founder, W-S, NC
  • Scott Betz, Media Artist and Designer, W-S, NC
  • Glenna Batson, Movement Researcher and Muse, Durham/W-C, NC
  • Grace Anderson, Musician and Founder/Artistic Director, Triad Chamber Music Society, W-S, NC

Background:
Cook It UP! was launched as a campus and community forum on creativity in 2006 as an Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts initiative. The objective is to stimulate dialog and launch innovative collaborations between artists, scholars and researchers from across disciplines in an uncommon, creative environment. The COOK IT UP! forum has reached over 400 participants and attendees over the course of several nights of 'curious pleasure.'


For more info contact:
Lynn Book, Program Director for Creativity and Innovation, Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts and the department of Theatre and Dance, Wake Forest University. 336-758-3383 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Dr. William Easterly to Speak on Thursday, Feb. 28th

"Can Foreign Aid End World Poverty?"

Dr. William Easterly, is Professor of Economics at New York University; a faculty affiliate of Africa House; and Visiting Scholar with the Global Economy and Development Program at The Brookings Institute.



Dr. Easterly will be speaking on:
Thursday, February 28, 2008
4:30 p.m. in Carswell 111 -- Annenberg Forum.

He will address the issues in his book, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006).


This event is co-sponsored by:
The Dvelo Fund; The Department of Economics -- John Moorhouse Fund; the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts; Provost's Office of International Affairs; and Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.

Dr. David Carroll to Speak on Friday, February 22nd

"Nanotechnology: The Emerging Marketplace"
Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship Lecture Series

Dr. David Carroll will be speaking on campus on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 4 p.m. in 126 Winston Hall. The title of his talk is "Nanotechnology: the Emerging Marketplace"

Dr. Carroll is the director of Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. Dr. Carroll's research has applications from increasing the efficiency of flexible solar cells to producing the next generation of light emitting diodes to biomedical nanotechnology.

Professor Carroll's research has resulted in two Triad start-ups -- PlexiLight and FiberCell.