Does anyone know anything about this program within the Social Innovation living/learning community?
@emoryadmit22 I think it is a kind of new program that technically came out last year, but you can imagine it as inspired by the following concept: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/issues/2015/spring/of_note/Students.html . Raoul has that theme overall, but the program is basically for a few people who want to volunteer to be more immersed in the theme, gain access to a mentor, and perhaps participate in or implement projects of interest and not simply just kind of live in the newest dorm (which is petty, because the quality and condition of Hamilton and LSM are no different, but some students literally only want the newest for no reason. If choosing between those 3, I would choose based upon the theme and the feel). For example, Emory has an interest in sending more undergraduates to the final Hult Prize Competition: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/02/er_entrepreneurship_ecosystem/campus.html
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/03/er_hult_prize/campus.html
Basically, it functions as a space to host students serious about pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors early in their Emory careers and that has become a surprisingly (Emory does not have engineering) serious movement at Emory, so I guess they said: “Why not?” If you are seriously interested in this sort of thing and do not mind the immersion/extra commitment, I would say do it as Emory has lots of resources that you would likely be streamlined into taking advantage of (again, you get the MBA student as mentor as well as upper classmen mentors interested in entrepreneurial endeavors: https://housing.emory.edu/loc/theme/socialinnovation.html)
View it as something focused to do/being part of a specific community outside of study groups. The goal of those immersion programs is to sort of integrate intellectual/academic life with residence life for students who desire to have that.
I am actually glad to see you noticed this because I told someone in Emory admin to start advertising these freshman year reshall related programs/immersion experiences BEFORE students got to Emory so that those interested would see it before hand and not just arrive in the fall, get lost in everything that is happening, be unaware (or have to stumble upon them), and then later make complaints like: “Why does Emory not have anything like this?” It does, just no one bothered to tell them on time. This and the IDEAS program used to wait until students arrived to start attempting to recruit which is ridiculous and may explain seemingly low interest from first years. They simply are unaware and are caught up in too many other first year activities and adjustments to notice small recruitment events for these programs (when you get to orientation you will see what I mean. It can be overwhelming).
What does Emory have that fosters cooperation between students interested in the biological/chemical/physical sciences and entrepreneurship-minded business students?
I know about Hack Emory and Hack Atlanta. What other programs of this type already exist at Emory that perhaps aren’t that well advertised?
@BiffBrown : I don’t know everything but I think there is a new organization in that hub of entrepreneurial based orgs. that has that interest in mind.
Here I found it: I guess Catalyst recently got off the ground: https://www.eevm.org/divisions/
https://www.eevm.org/events/2018/3/1/catalyst-launch-1
Only March 1. Hopefully they maybe get their own website and start marketing on campus. That could actually turn to something big on campus. Also recently, Emory got its own IGEM group. I met one guy who was part of this new chapter before leaving (I was at GSU when Emory collaborated with them. The lab was across from a classroom I taught in). I hope it still exists: https://momentum.emory.edu/project/9797
I think Emory should have had its own team a long time ago (if not several intramural teams) as there should be a lot of interest in doing something like that.
They were trying to raise money through the alumni network. I personally believe Emory should find other ways to directly foster and fund such an interest. http://www.alumni.emory.edu/emorywire/news/news-articles/2017/08/igem.html
Also, a few may have been from Oxford. If you ever knew or know any of their members, I would recommend that they reach out to bio 141 courses at beginning of the year to search for interest or talent. Most instructors in those courses are willing to advertise such opportunities on campus, and green pre-healths and future life sciences majors may be the types open enough to make it a part of their schedules.
@BiffBrown there is an inter-disceplenary living learning center, but I know little about these things. It looks as if there are three of these LLCs. The one mentioned in the original post, the inter-disceplenary LLC, and a multi-cultural LLC.
I know that Bernie is a big proponent of Emory expanding its freshmen Reshall opportunities into LLCs. I don’t know enough about them and more about themed housing was discussed at admitted students day than the LLCs.