People may laugh at you…
Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, the Wright brothers… This clearly doesn’t scratch the surface of all the great minds throughout history, but what ...
LEAP Inventor Challenge awards $175K to WashU Inventors
Five Washington University teams will be awarded up to $175,000 in the latest LEAP Inventor Challenge (LEAP) cycle. This concludes the academic yea...
Meet our Spring 2017 LEAP Inventor Challenge Judges
Each LEAP Inventor Challenge cycle, we are blown away by the insight that our competition judges bring to the presenting teams. For the Spring 2017...
Congrats to the winners of the Skandalaris Center Cup!
Congrats to the Skandalaris Center Cup award winners! 1st Place – $5,000: Viosera, a MRSA antibiotic 2nd Place – $2,500: Cyber Powered ...
Seven finalists will compete for the $50,000 Global Impact Award
Seven finalists have been selected to compete for an award of up to $50,000 in the 4th annual Global Impact Award (GIA) finals in October. Hosted b...
WashU Patent Challenge awards $10,000 to Interdisciplinary Teams
This year, in partnership with the Office of Technology Management, the Skandalaris Center launched the WashU Patent Challenge, an opportunity for ...
LEAP workshops at New Skandalaris Center Facility on the Med Campus
The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship has a new facility on the Washington University Medical Campus. The ne...
Now Accepting Applications for the 2017 Global Impact Award
Applications are now open for the 2017 Global Impact Award (GIA), Washington University’s business plan competition for ventures that are scalable,...
Bear Cub Challenge rebrands as LEAP, awards $250K to WashU teams
After fourteen years as the “Bear Cub Challenge,” Washington University in St. Louis’ competition for inventors has received a new name: the LEAP I...
Moving on Up: The Skandalaris Center is #10
The Skandalaris Center is excited and honored to be included in the nation’s Top 25 Undergraduate and Graduate Programs for Entrepreneurship in 201...
Spotlight: Israeli Summer Business Academy
Guest post by Claire Chen With the most startups per capita and total funding worth $3.58 billion in 2015, Israel is one of the hottest entrepreneu...
Epharmix wins the $50,000 Global Impact Award
A new Global Impact Award winner has been selected. Epharmix, a healthcare software that uses SMS and phone-based technology that helps the sickest...
Get to Know the GIA Finalists: RareShare
Monday is the final event for the Global Impact Award, our business plan competition that awards up to $50,000 to impactful, scalable, and sustaina...
Get to Know the GIA Finalists: Epharmix
Next week is the final event for the Global Impact Award, our business plan competition that awards up to $50,000 to impactful, scalable, and susta...
Get to Know the GIA Finalists: Geneoscopy
We’re just a few weeks away from the final event for the Global Impact Award, our business plan competition that awards up to $50,000 to impactful,...
Get to Know the GIA Finalists: The Women’s Bakery
We’re about a month away from the final event for the Global Impact Award, our business plan competition that awards up to $50,000 to impactful, sc...
Countdown to GIA
In exactly one month, a new Global Impact Award recipient will be named. Finalist teams have been hard at work all summer as they prepare their del...
GiftAMeal reaches 1,000 meals with Applebee’s!
St. Louis Applebee’s Locations Reach 1,000 Meals Provided to the Local Community on the GiftAMeal App On May 16th, 31 Greater St. Louis Applebee’s ...
Time for the Next Bear Cub Cycle! Info Session Dates Announced
We’re excited to kick off our next cycle of the Bear Cub Challenge! We had an incredible last round with some fantastic technologies (see the...
Six finalists will compete for the $50,000 Global Impact Award
Applications have closed for the 3rd annual Global Impact Award (GIA). Out of 34 applications from across the globe, six finalists were selected la...
The Humble Hustle: WashU team, GiftAMeal, adds to their accolades
It has become quite common to hear the words “GiftAMeal” and “winner” in the same sentence. Andrew Glantz, CEO and co-founder, and his team have be...
Announcing the 2016 SEIC and SC Cup Winners!
The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted two separate business plan competitions this semester: The Skan...
Spring Boeing Patent Challenge Finals
We’re always impressed by the ideas brought forth by students at Washington University in St. Louis, and this semester’s Boeing Patent ...
We Hacked The Loop!
Just one week ago, we hosted our first ever Delmar Loop Social Impact Hackathon in partnership with our friends at the Delmar Loop Innovation Neigh...
Visiting VC drops the mic: ‘Looking for the remarkable’
We teamed up with student organizations, WUTE and Y’s Thoughts, to bring Arteen Arabshahi to campus April 20th-21st. His stay was a part of a ventu...
Bigger things ahead for past Boeing Patent Challenge winners
What do you get when you cross a WashU law student, architecture student, medical student, and physics student? An Arch Grant finalist team. Chris ...
Boeing Patent Challenge enters Phase 2
Last week marked the end of the Translation Phase of the Boeing Patent Challenge announced in August. Judges from Boeing and Skandalaris heard pre...
Can’t stop innovation & entrepreneurship at Wash U!
Despite the occasional rain shower, the Skandalaris Center showcased the best of innovation and entrepreneurship at Washington University and in St...
WU-STL: Where Entrepreneurs Come to Train
Sunday marked the first session of the WU-Startup Training Lab (WU-STL) series and it was a full house! More than 70 students, faculty, staff and c...
Announcing the Boeing Challenge
When does an ENGINEERING MAJOR need an ENGLISH MAJOR who needs a FINE ART MAJOR who needs a BUSINESS MAJOR who needs an ENGINEERING MAJOR? NOW.* Bo...
Adventures of a Skandalaris Intern: The Final 2 Weeks
The last 2 weeks have flown by and now the summer interns are in their last week of interning! We can’t believe how fast the summer went, but...
Adventures of a Skandalaris Intern: Catching up
The past few weeks have been so busy for the interns (and for those of us coordinating and planning all the activities) that we haven’t had time to...
Intern Perspective: Erin Kim at DataDog Health
Intern Erin Kim, a rising sophomore in Business Administration, is interning with DataDog Health this summer. DataDog, created by 2 Wash U alum, El...
Interns Explore Nebula: A Study of Entrepreneurial Decor
We here at the Skandalaris Center hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Independence Day weekend! The interns enjoyed a well deserved day off (al...
Community Building
Here is a guest post from on of our 2015 Summer Interns – Jacob Mohrmann. Jacob is a rising senior in the Olin Business School and the College of A...
Adventures of a Skandalaris Summer Intern – Week 2
Greetings! Week two brought our students to TechArtista – a co-working space located in the Central West End and co-owned by two WUSTL alums, Eric ...
Adventures of a Skandalaris Summer Intern – 1st Friday
Our 2015 Summer Intern class enjoyed their first summer Friday outing just a few short days ago. For those of you who don’t know, our summer...
Welcoming our 2015 Summer Intern Class
On Monday, June 1, 32 WUSTL undergraduate students will begin an exciting summer of discovery in St. Louis. Our students will support 22 commercia...
Celebrating outstanding entrepreneurial grads
We in the Skandalaris Center were pleased and proud to host four graduating seniors at a luncheon today to celebrate their time at Washington Unive...
Make YOUR Global Impact
THIS JUST IN! – on Tuesday June 2, 8:30 – 10 a.m. Skandalaris Center Managing Director Emre Toker will lead a workshop on the Global Impact Award ...
Friedman Center for Aging Annual Lecture & Awards
Congratulations to our colleagues in the Friedman Center for Aging on their annual lecture and awards. In addition to acknowledging the great work...
Skandalaris Center Goes to France (in a manner of speaking)
On Tuesday, April 21 our managing director, Emre Toker, will be leading an on-line workshop for The Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancees lo...
And the Winners Are…
Last night the winner’s of the 2015 YouthBridge Social Enterprise and Innovation competition were announced. A big congrats goes out to all t...
YouthBridge Social Enterprise & Innovation Competition 2015
Last Thursday, the 10 finalists for the 2015 YouthBridge Social Enterprise and Innovation competition presented before a panel of esteemed judges. ...
Hacking Health – A Follow Up
Bummed you had to miss the event, check out this video recap of the Healthcare Hackathon. It’s just like you were there (almost). Just click...
Hacking Health
March 20 – 22, CIC @4240. This past weekend the Skandalaris Center’s first ever Healthcare Hackathon successfully ended its first run w...
Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Spanning Generations
Last Friday I tweeted a link to a story featuring 91-year-old Barbara Beskind who landed her dream job as an inventor and innovator just two years ...
Two WUSTL Undergrads named finalists in SXSW Startup Madness
Now that the start of SXSW Interactive is just a few short days away – we want to share some WUSTL pride with you. Two amazing current under...
Have a cup of joe with a mentor – WUSTL Engineering
Be sure to join us this Friday in Whispers Cafe for our 3rd Coffee with a Mentor of the semester featuring Michael Kinch, PhD. associate vice chanc...
2015 YouthBridge SEIC Elevator Pitch Competition
Yesterday starting at approximately 1 p.m. central standard time we kicked off our afternoon hearing from the first of 38 Semi-Finalists in the 201...
And the Olin Cup goes to …
The 2015 Olin Cup Award announcement took place on Thursday, February 29th. Check out this blog post from WUSTL’s newsroom for details on th...
Gearing Up for Olin Cup
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 is an important day. It is the day the Olin Cup finalists will present their ideas to an esteemed panel of judges. Fin...
St. Louis Dancing Classrooms
In January 2010, Lauren Wilmore (BSBA 2006) delivered the elevator pitch that eventually helped St. Louis Dancing Classrooms win the $30,000 Incarn...
Quartzy – “The free and easy way to manage your lab”
Adam Regelmann has conducted academic research in fields such as chemistry, microbiology and molecular immunology since the time he was in high sch...
Janji – “Running on Water”
The organization then known as Edele entered the YouthBridge Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition in January, 2011. The mission of this stu...
Yurbuds – “Made to Move Just Like You”
In October, 2008, as an Olin Business School Executive MBA student, Seth Burgett entered the Olin Cup with his venture, known then as Verto Medica...