Grant funds MU student inventors

Source KOMU on October 29, 2010 0 Comments

RJI iPhone Student Competition
"Grant Funds MU Student Inventors," Columbia Missourian, Oct. 29, 2010.

COLUMBIA - MU announced Wednesday its students will now have the opportunity to receive complete ownership rights to anything they invent on campus. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City gave the UM system a $100,000 grant to further student entrepreneuring. The Kauffman Foundation awards universities to promote the commercialization of tecnologies developed at the university level.

Mentioned later in the article is the Reynolds Journalism Institute iPhone student competition:

Tony Brown, a graduate student at MU, created an iPhone application in February 2009 while he was an undergraduate journalism student.  He, along with three other friends, entered "Nearbuy" in the Reynolds Journalism Institute's iPhone student competition and won.

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