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20 educators from 16 higher education institutions from around the world have been selected as candidates in the inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellows Program. In this two-year program, faculty and staff work to design unique projects that enhance the innovation ecosystems at their schools and help students gain vital real-world skills and mindsets.

This program is run by the University Innovation Fellows program, which empowers students and faculty leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking. The University Innovation Fellows is a program of Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school).

“Candidates in the Faculty Innovation Fellows program are doing this work because they see opportunities to improve their schools and because they believe in the power of change from the bottom up,” said Fasihuddin. “We can’t wait to see what these change makers can accomplish!”

The candidates in the 2020-2022 Faculty
Innovation Fellows program are
  • Oguzhan Aygoren, Bogazici University
  • Bruce Paton, Menlo College
  • Mirna Mattjik, Colorado School of Mines
  • Lisa Casper, Michigan Technological University
  • Alyssa Martina, Elon University
  • Danuvasin Charoen, National Institute of Development Administration
  • Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University
  • Jongsawas Chongwatpol, National Institute of Development Administration
  • Malte Krohn, Hamburg University of Technology
  • Luise Degen, Hamburg University of Technology
  • Rishelle Wimmer, Salzburg University of Applied Science
  • Tom Grundnigg, Salzburg University of Applied Science
  • Zeynep Erden Bayazit, İstanbul Technical University
  • Magdalena Ionescu, Sophia University
  • Nicholas Ooi, Lingnan University
  • Charles M. Wood, The University of Tulsa
  • Balaji Ramanujam, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science
  • John Fernando Fontaine Nesmachnow, Universidad Tecnológica del Uruguay
  • Vijaya Lakshmi Udayagiri, Madanapalle Institute of Technology
  • Darren DeFrain, Wichita State University & Science
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  • Mrs. U. Vijaya Lakshmi

    Faculty Champion and Faculty Innovation Fellow (d.school Stanford University) - Candidate

    International Relations Office- MITS

    Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science
    Post Box No: 14, Kadiri Road,
    Angallu Madanapalle-517325,
    Andhra Pradesh, India

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  • Dr. D. Pradeep Kumar

    Faculty Champion and Faculty Innovation Fellow (dschool Stanford University) - Candidate

    International Relations Office- MITS

    Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science
    Post Box No: 14, Kadiri Road,
    Angallu Madanapalle-517325,
    Andhra Pradesh, India

    E-Mail : [email protected]

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  • Mr. Arjun Chakravarthi Pogaku

    Faculty Champion and Faculty Innovation Fellow (dschool Stanford University)- Candidate

    International Relations Office- MITS

    Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science
    Post Box No: 14, Kadiri Road,
    Angallu Madanapalle-517325,
    Andhra Pradesh, India

    E-Mail : [email protected]

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