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• The Center for Research and Learning and the IUPUI Solution Center, both in theOffice of the Vice Chancellor for Research, launched the Innovation-to-Enterprise-Central (ITEC) initiative, a year-long, multi-disciplinary program that prepares the next generation of inventors and entrepreneurs by involving students as key partners in research commercialization. One project, for example, brought two Kelley School of Business students together with three students from theSchool of Engineering and Technology to bring a newly patented dialysis device (invented by George Akingba of the School of Medicine) to market. The students investigated dialysis techniques, licensing procedures, government regulations, and potential funding sources, among other issues, and developed a licensing plan to move the invention toward commercialization. Based on ITEC's success in its initial year, the program will expand from three to five teams in 2012-2013.
• IUPUI's STEM initiatives reached a milestone on March 28, 2012, when ground was broken for the new Science and Engineering Laboratory Building. The new facility will address a critical shortage of laboratory space for research and teaching and will enable students and faculty from the Schools of Science and of Engineering and Technology to engage in collaborative multidisciplinary research. It will be IUPUI's first new science building not connected to the medical sciences in 20 years.

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