<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Dear postdoc community,</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Here is an email from Dr. Jay Gilberg about </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">innovation and entrepreneurship (I & E).</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><br></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Jay Gilberg, PhD </b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">works on AVC Rosibel Ochoa's staff at RED / Technology Partnerships. </span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><br></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in">Email:</p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in">______</p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">We provide a variety of workshops, plus mentoring and financial support to UCR faculty, post docs and grad students to explore entrepreneurship and commercialization of their promising tech.  </span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="color:black;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="color:black;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">When a faculty or </span>post-docs<span style="color:black;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> research is NSF funded, you are given fast-track acceptance into their $50k national I-Corps program.  This seven-week innovation workshop teaches faculty, post-docs and their grad students how to validate the market potential of their idea via disciplined entrepreneurship and outside-the-lab interviewing of 100+ stakeholders.  </span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">The $50k award is nondilutive and is mainly used for travel to conferences, trade shows and other locations to conduct stakeholder interviews. My Office assists your preparation for the I-Corp and can even provide a qualified “industry mentor” on your I-Corps student team, if needed.  </span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Completion of the NSF I-Corps Program will enhance your odds of receiving funding for an NSF SBIR award.</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">____</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><font size="4"><font color="#000000" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Interested postdocs please <b>reach out directly to Jay</b>! His email is </span></font><a href="mailto:jay.gilberg@ucr.edu">jay.gilberg@ucr.edu</a> and he is excited to hear your thoughts and will love to chat over a coffee.</font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><br></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><font size="4">The dates for the workshop are still pending but we'll keep you all posted.</font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in"><font size="4">Best wishes,</font></p><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><b>UC Riverside Postdoctoral Association (RPA)<br></b></div><div style="text-align:center">Executive Board</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div><div style="text-align:center">News, events & more on 🔗 <a href="https://rpa.ucr.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://rpa.ucr.edu/</a></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-al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