Doherty Center

Reno, the founder of Feather and investor at 645 Ventures, is the first of Elon's alumni to receive this honor.

Alyssa Martina, director of the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is the first recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation’s  Engaged Faculty & Staff Award, established this year to recognize “extraordinary engagement in Sullivan Foundation programming.”

Reno, founder and CEO of Feather, will be presented with the Elon University Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership on Tuesday, April 4.

Six students from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business finished third this winter in a regional undergraduate bracket of the 2023 Venture Capital Investment Competition hosted by James Madison University.

Led by Alyssa Martina, faculty member and director of the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, the program met with more than 30 companies during a three-week span.

Thanks to a cross-campus collaboration, School of Communications students Ian Myers ’23, Melanie Meisner ’23 and Elizabeth Daria ’23 designed a digital billboard for the Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation and its charitable initiative, Journey for the Living.

Joshua Mason ’24, Emmet Owen ’24, Ashley Josey ’25, Eddie Keefe ’25, Nathaniel Lerman ’25 and TJ Mathis ’25 will work to increase Elon campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.

MIT Media Lab graduates Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma delivered the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Lecture on Nov. 15 in the LaRose Digital Theatre at the Ernest A. Koury Sr. Business Center.

Groundbreaking innovators, Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma, are coming to speak at Elon University’s C. Ashton Newhall Lecture Series on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Both Nan-Wei and Anirudh have extensive experiences as MIT Lab scientists and founders of technologically progressive companies.

Nan-Wei Gong, founder of Figur8 Inc., and Anirudh Sharma, co-founder of Graviky Labs, will discuss entrepreneurship on the cutting edge of innovation.