Virginia State University News March 16, 2015 VSU student honored as a University Innovation Fellow Reginald Burroughs of Rockville, MD, a VSU manufacturing engineering major, has completed training to join the University Innovation Fellows, a national program that empowers student leaders to bring more entrepreneurial activity to their campuses. Burroughs, a junior who anticipates graduating in May 2016, is one of 123 new Fellows to join the current network, for a total number of 291 Fellows from 114 schools across the United States. He is the second VSU student named a Fellow, joining Ulysses Knight who was inducted in 2014. Burroughs, a Bronx, NY native, is the project manager for VSU's Society of Automotive Engineering Chapter's race car project. In the project, student engineers designed and built a fully functioning race car. He holds a number of inventions and hopes to study Intellectual Property Law after graduating from VSU. Under the direction of faculty sponsor Dr. Benedict Uzochukwu, Burroughs will work with students and student organizations to create new experiences for VSU students that foster a spirit of entrepreneurship. Among these are 3 Day Startup Springboard, an interactive workshop focused on the beginning steps of launching a company or a project through on-campus innovation; establish a student-led innovation and entrepreneurship club; seek ways to infuse entrepreneurship and innovation into introductory and core curricula; and establish innovation and entrepreneurship challenge competitions that will encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration and robust problem solving skills across campus. The University Innovation Fellows program is run by Epicenter, funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by Stanford University and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Epicenter's mission is to empower U.S. undergraduate engineering students to bring their ideas to life for the benefit of the country's economy and society. Epicenter helps students combine their technical skills and their ability to develop innovative technologies to solve important problems with an entrepreneurial mindset and skillset. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.