Walk-in advising is available Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, by appointment. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to book a time in advance to ensure personalized support for their projects and ideas.
The Innovation Studio is reserved every Monday and Wednesday from 4:00 to 6:00 PM for the Bench Top Innovation course led by Professor Joel Mier.
Fridays 9 AM to 12 Noon are reserved for Richmond Innovation Fellows.
To schedule a class session in the Innovation Studio, reach out to Andrew Ilnicki to reserve the space in advance.
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Date |
Time |
Register |
Workshop |
Audience |
Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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3-Oct |
10am-12:30pm |
CLOSED |
CARE 360 Values to Ventures Workshop |
All Students |
PRISM Prompting, AI, CARE framework |
|
10-Oct |
10am-1pm |
CLOSED |
Startup Virginia Tour + RIF Pitch Practice |
RIF Students |
Canva, Adobe, PowerPoint |
|
10-Oct |
2-3:30PM |
Lego Serious Play Introduction (90 min) |
All Students & Faculty + Staff |
LEGO Serious Play |
|
|
15-Oct |
7-9pm |
CLOSED |
Entrepreneur Open House |
All Students |
Slack |
|
17-Oct |
10-1150am |
CLOSED |
Stakeholder Mapping: Leading Change Through Connection |
All Students, Faculty, and Staff |
TBD |
|
17-Oct |
3-4:30pm |
Intro to Design Thinking |
All Students, Faculty, and Staff |
Post-its, Sharpies, Prototyping materials, story boards, UI mockups |
|
|
21-Oct |
12-2pm |
CLOSED |
Intro to Vibe Coding with CLAAI |
All Students, Faculty, and Staff |
TBA |
|
24-Oct |
12-4pm |
CLOSED |
Pitch Practice |
Bench Top Innovations |
Canva, Powerpoint, Google Slides, Story Telling |
|
31-Oct |
12-3:00pm |
CLOSED |
Graphic Advocacy Workshop (Modlin/Law) |
All F/S/S |
Comics |
|
7-Nov |
2-3:30pm |
CLOSED |
Intro to Design Thinking |
All Students & Faculty + Staff |
ExperiencePoint |
|
14-Nov |
1-3:00pm |
CLOSED |
Blitz Prototyping - vibecoding part 2 |
All Students & Faculty + Staff |
Cursor, Figma, Miro |
|
21-Nov |
1-2:30pm |
CLOSED |
Causal Forecasting and AI with MARKETview |
All Students & Faculty + Staff |
Data Bricks |
|
28-Nov |
1-4:30pm |
OPEN COWORKING |
Open Prototyping, Pitch Feedback session |
Creative Innovation / Career Prep |
Canva Pro, Adobe CC, LinkedIn Learning |
|
3-Dec |
6-8pm |
UX Census RVA Results Night |
All Students & Faculty, Staff and Community |
UX Census Report |
|
| 5-Dec | 10am | Register | Richmond Innovation Showcase | All Students & Faculty, Staff and Community | Presentations |
UR students receive six-figure backing and valuable mentorship through Y Combinator, a startup accelerator to high-tech superstars, like DoorDash and Airbnb.
UR's Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative has received a $50,000 grant from the Joan and Morgan Massey Foundation to support the Richmond Innovation Fellows program.
Three budding entrepreneurs develop a concept for a disposable cup that will detect date-rape drugs when they are added to a drink.
For questions, please email Andrew Ilnicki, Director of the Innovation Studio