News - Southwest I-Corps

December 3, 2024

Return and Verified Announce First 100% Wind-Powered Direct Air Capture Hub, Designed To Scale to 500,000 Tons Annually

San Angelo (Texas), November 21, 2024 – Carbon capture and removal project developers Return Carbon and Verified Carbon today announced “Project Concho”, a pioneering Direct Air Capture (DAC) ...

November 20, 2024

I-Corps Leads to New Business Path

Startup pivots from biodegradable plastic to nutraceuticals LSU Biological Sciences Associate Professor Naohiro Kato never intended to go into the nutraceutical business. He created a business, ...

November 20, 2024

Innovating Beyond Challenges: How I-Corps Helped One Researcher Pivot to Success

One of the hardest lessons researchers learn from the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) training is that their brilliant invention, the sector-disrupting innovation they spent ...

November 20, 2024

UTMB Research Team Recognized for Work on Traumatic Brain Injury Detection

A team of researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch has been accepted into the prestigious National Science Foundation's National I-CorpsTM program for their groundbreaking research on ...

October 28, 2024

UT Austin Professor Dr. Wei Li Accepted into NSF National I-Corps Program for Innovative Dysphagia Monitoring Wearable Device

Dr. Wei Li of UT Austin has recently been accepted into the prestigious National Science Foundation's National I-Corps™ program, marking a significant milestone in the advancement of healthcare ...

September 18, 2024

Texas Proof of Concept Awards Program Deploys Over $1 Million in UT Austin Innovations, Supporting NSF I-Corps Teams

The University of Texas at Austin continues to be a powerhouse for innovation, thanks in part to the Texas Proof of Concept Awards program, which plays a pivotal role in advancing cutting-edge ...

September 16, 2024

OmniSense Surgical, a University of Texas at Austin Start-Up, Joins NSF National I-Corps™ Program with Groundbreaking Surgical Technology

Celeste Marsan and Jiaqi Xue, graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin, have recently been accepted into the National Science Foundation's (NSF) esteemed National I-Corps™ program, ...

August 27, 2024

I-Corps Uncovers New Path for Baby Monitoring Startup

Customer discovery shows Baby Hat a need for new service, larger market [caption id="attachment_24576" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Sibei Xia[/caption] Four weeks and a little ...

August 23, 2024

The University of Texas at Austin’s Dr. Linran Fan Joins NSF I-Corps

The University of Texas at Austin's Dr. Linran Fan Joins NSF I-Corps to Revolutionize Photonics with Breakthrough Chip-Scale Technology [caption id="attachment_24498" align="alignleft" ...

August 7, 2024

Infant Innovation: Iman Salafian’s Collaborative Approach to Medical Devices for Newborns

Like many engineers, Iman Salafian wants to help as many people as possible with his research. But it's also deeply personal to this Texas Engineer who took a childhood experience watching a family ...

August 7, 2024

University of Texas at Austin Lecturer Dr. Devrim Ikizler Accepted into NSF’s Prestigious I-Corps SBIR Cohort

Austin, TX — The University of Texas at Austin proudly announces that Dr. Devrim Ikizler, a distinguished lecturer and CEO of Intelligent Analytics and Modeling (IAMECON), has been accepted into ...

July 15, 2024

Palanquin Power Recognized by U.S. Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the latest round of cohorts in its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). Thirty-three innovators have been selected to be embedded across ...