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Delaware daily roundup: DCAD students ‘in shock;’ $1M grant for Dover; No pay raises for school IT staff

Plus, the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals is partnering with 65 Wilmington students to develop biopharma.

ON DISPLAY AT THE DELAWARE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE (HOLLY QUINN)

DCAD students turn to community for support

What do you do when the art school you attend sends an email saying it’s closing forever? For this rising second year (now former) DCAD student, the answer was to advocate for herself and her friends as they face an uncertain future.

➡️ Read my report here

Learn to take ideas from lab to market

When researchers make a discovery, it can only become a real-world solution if it moves from academics into the commercial space. But turning concepts into products and services is far from easy.

A new program from Horn Entrepreneurship and the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware aims to be a catalyst for that process. Called the Innovation Delaware Fellowship, or InDE, it provides inventors, research scientists, innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs with an exceptional opportunity to learn about and gain first-hand experience with the process of translating ideas, discoveries and inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace.

➡️ Applications are open now through June 14

News Incubator: What else to know today

• Dover has received a $1 million Brownfields Multipurpose Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to redevelop abandoned sites [Delaware Business Times]

• School IT professionals have been shut out of pay raises for teachers and other staff. [Delaware Public Media]

• The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals is partnering with 65 Wilmington students to develop biopharma. [Delaware LIVE]

• Find out whether Chef Robbie Jester got ‘Chopped’ from the Food Network. [Delaware Online]

🗓️ On the Calendar

• Thursday, May 30 — Delaware State Chamber of Commerce End-of-Session Policy Conference, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Delaware State University, Dover [Details here]

• May 30-31 — Media & Democracy Summit, The Queen, Wilmington [Details here]

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