{"id":7690,"date":"2020-08-26T16:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2020-08-26T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:14:45","slug":"faculty-grant-spotlight-renaissance-foundry-research-group-venturewell-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2020\/events\/faculty-grant-spotlight-renaissance-foundry-research-group-venturewell-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Grant Spotlight: Renaissance Foundry Research Group &amp; VentureWell Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to the Renaissance Foundry Research Group (RFRG) for receiving a VentureWell faculty grant, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BioFoundry Design: Leveraging Biomimicry to Advance Environmental and Social Sustainability Innovation in Prototypes Developed in Foundry-Guided Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Courses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d (Dr. P. Arce, PI with Co-PIs: Drs. A. Arce-Trigatti, S. Jorgensen, and J.R. Sanders), which will positively impact rural areas. Through the Renaissance Foundry Model (RFM), focused on the development of the \u201cholistic-style\u201d engineering professional, students will adopt and adapt elements of Biomimicry to develop prototypes of innovative technology that are friendlier to the environment. Dr. Arce states, \u201cthis is a wonderful recognition for the collaborative RFRG efforts in implementing, assessing, and scaling the RFM as an effective platform to develop holistic-style engineers.\u201d View the story here: https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/grand-challenge\/news\/articles\/20200826-venturewell-grantspotlight.php <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Renaissance Foundry Research Group (RFRG) for receiving a VentureWell faculty grant, \u201cBioFoundry Design: Leveraging Biomimicry to Advance Environmental and Social Sustainability Innovation in Prototypes Developed in Foundry-Guided Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Courses\u201d (Dr. P. Arce, PI with Co-PIs: Drs. A. Arce-Trigatti, S. Jorgensen, and J.R. Sanders), which will positively impact rural areas. Through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-7690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/08\/2020-08-26_5f46d0950783e_venturewellgrant.PNG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}