Doherty Center

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.

Running a business on its own can be a daunting task, but when Nathan Moskowitz '23, co-owner of Nate’s Cookies, left for Copenhagen to study abroad, Kevin Coelho and Paris Taliadouros stepped up to held down the fort.

Karl Sienerth, a chemistry professor at Elon, has been an influential committee member on the Elon Innovation Challenge for the past six years, serving as its chair each year.

The Elon parents and supporters of the university were honored with the medallion, the university's highest honor for service, at the Evening for Elon event in New York event on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Marketplace Under the Oaks has been rebranded to Oak Originals and the first pop-up of the semester will be Oct. 1 during Family Weekend.

Nine first-year students participated in the five-day Developing a Growth Mindset Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship summer experience, which exposed them to the possibilities of innovation and entrepreneurship while acclimating them to the Elon campus.

The director of the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship successfully completed the two-year program managed by the University Innovation Fellows program at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Sean McMahon helps students grow their business ideas from concept to reality.