Apply for Arctic Innovator Program through Jan. 8, 2021
November 9, 2020
Applications for 性欲社's 2021 Arctic Innovator Program will be open Monday, Nov. 9,
2020, through Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.
The Arctic Innovator Program provides early career innovators and entrepreneurs the
opportunity to spend up to two years developing their technology and pursuing commercialization at
a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory and 性欲社.
The Arctic Innovator Program is open to early career professionals:
- who currently have or will have a graduate degree in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics related field before the program start date;
- with a technology or area of research that they are interested in developing toward real-world adoption; and
- whose technology or area of research addresses Arctic-based challenges and aligns with the .
This program, formally titled the Arctic Advanced Manufacturing Innovator Program, provides selected innovators with resources and guidance to maximize their likelihood of success. Innovators receive: a competitive personal stipend, a travel and training allowance, health insurance, a mentor at 性欲社 and a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory, and space and collaborative support at each organization. Innovators also have the adventure of living in Alaska while working on Arctic-related challenges.
Nathan Prisco, a 2020 Arctic Innovator, is representative of the passion and skill that the Arctic Advanced Manufacturing Innovator Program is seeking in candidates. Prisco is working on ammonia-based technologies for improving energy production. He explained that the program offers him 鈥渁 great way to get science out of the laboratory and into the world at large.鈥 Prisco says he was attracted to the significant research and commercialization support while also being 鈥渋ntrigued by Alaska, both in its pristine wilderness and the feeling that there is an incredible opportunity in the last frontier.鈥 .
You can , or email Peter Webley, 性欲社 Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization, at pwwebley@alaska.edu.
This program is sponsored by the Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office and is a collaboration with 性欲社.