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Cooking Up Collaboration

Sep 3, 2025, 10:00 AM – Sep 30, 2025, 11:30 AM

Join us for an interactive cooking experience hosted by the Sustainable Futures Design Lab (SFDL) within the TRUST Hub that blends food, conversation and community. This event stimulates connections with campus colleagues for transdisciplinary translational research opportunities and participants will collaborate in the kitchen while engaging in discussions about innovative, community engaged solutions.

From Idea to Impact: UAccel + I-Corps Panel

Aug 6, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Have an innovation or idea that you know will impact the world? Don't know where to start? Come join us for a panel discussion on how to transition from idea to impact through a regional I-Corps program. Plus, hear from innovators who have been in your shoes. The program offers professional development and a hands-on learning opportunity for researchers, innovators, and healthcare professionals who are interested in learning how to bring their ideas to life. Participants prepare for commercialization planning, grant applications, startup formation, and more.

Launch Blue UAccel + I-Corps Summer 2025 Virtual Information Session

Apr 8, 2025, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Join us to learn more about the UAccel + I-Corps and our new UAccel Healthcare + I-Corps Summer 2025 programs. UAccel and UAccel Healthcare offers professional development and an experiential learning opportunity to innovators who are interested in learning the best commercialization path for their solutions.

Invest Blue Office Hours

Nov 15, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Occurring Every Friday Our Virtual Office Hours are the perfect opportunity to engage with Invest Blue. If you are looking for more information about one of our programs, join us Fridays at 12:30-1:30 pm ET.

Launch Blue Office Hours

Nov 15, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Occurring Every Friday Our Virtual Office Hours are the perfect opportunity to engage with the Launch Blue coaches and instructors. Whether you are looking for more information about one of our programs, have a question about your application, or are a tech founder looking for advice join us Fridays at 12:30-1:30 pm ET.

UAccel Quick Start & I-Corps Virtual Info Session

Nov 13, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

The virtual program offers professional development and an experiential learning opportunity to innovators who are interested in learning the best commercialization path for their solutions. The goal of the program is to advance an innovation toward commercialization, including preparations for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants or National Innovation Corps applications, creation of a startup, or partnering with an established company to license the technology.

UAccel Quick Start + I-Corps: The Program

Feb 2, 2024, 12:00 PM – Apr 19, 2024, 1:00 PM

UAccel Quick Start, the university technology commercialization focused program of Launch Blue, offers professional development and an experiential learning opportunity to innovators affiliated with a university who are interested in learning the best commercialization path for their technology.

UAccel Quick Start + I-Corps: Virtual Information Session

Nov 8, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

UAccel + I-Corps Virtual Accelerator Program

Sep 8, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program is an immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of invention to impact. The University of Kentucky is a partner in the Mid-South Innovation Corps Hub.

UAccel + I-Corps Virtual Accelerator Program Info Session

Aug 2, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Learn more about our programs through our Virtual Info Sessions. Upcoming Info Sessions: UAccel Quick Start & I-Corps Fall 2023 Program August 2, 2023 at 12pm ET This program is an immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of invention to impact. Learn more about the I-Corps Accelerator Program:

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