{"id":10350,"date":"2017-06-08T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=10350"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:16:43","slug":"trustees-gift-ignites-student-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2017\/06\/08\/trustees-gift-ignites-student-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustee\u2019s Gift Ignites Student Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span class=\"primary-red\">BU Spark! connects technology ideas with expertise, funding<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/bu-spark\/\">BU Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BU students have a new way to get their great ideas off their hard drives and into the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Created with $1 million gift from the Mullen Family Foundation and based at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/about-hic\/bu-spark\/\">BU Spark!<\/a> is a new incubator for technology-driven student entrepreneurship. The initiative will offer programs and resources to help students pursue next-stage development of projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[&#8230;]BU Spark! will support ventures driven by computer science, engineering, and related disciplines. Help and advice is available from several sources, including Hariri Institute programming experts, the Questrom School of Business<a href=\"http:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/entrepreneurship\/buzzlab\/welcome\/\"> BUzz Lab<\/a>, and graphic designers from the College of Fine Arts, Cranmer says, as well as alumni with expertise to share or money to invest.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/bu-spark\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Spark! connects technology ideas with expertise, funding From BU Today: BU students have a new way to get their great ideas off their hard drives and into the world. Created with $1 million gift from the Mullen Family Foundation and based at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10356,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}