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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Rebecca van Bergen

A well-deserved congratulations to WashU Woman InnovatorRebecca van Bergen. She is included in InStyle magazine’s 50 Women Making the World a Better Place in 2021. Van Bergen is the founder of Nest. The nonprofit organization helps skilled and talented artisans

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How to Land a Job with a Startup

On February 3, 2021 entrepreneur and Stanford University Lecturer Doug Galen, led a workshop to help students in the St. Louis Entrepreneurial Fellowship and broader WashU community land a job with a startup. Doug has had a handful of careers

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The Art of Freelancing

The Skandalaris Center recently partnered with the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts for a Freelance Bootcamp to help students and alumni navigate a freelance career. The two-day event featured workshops and panels to give artists, designers, photographers,

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WashU Students are Tackling Problems for the Department of Defense

This spring, WashU students will be working with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to tackle some major challenges. Problems such as: moving people and supplies through checkpoints in a secure way, making sense of disparate data to find patterns,

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2021 Global Impact Award Finalists

The Skandalaris Center is excited to announce the six finalists for the 2021 Global Impact Award. The Global Impact Award was founded in 2013 to support the vision and passion of Washington University in St. Louis students, postdoctoral researchers, and

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