Dear alumni, students, faculty and staff:
Organizations and society are driven by innovation. Those innovations are fueled by sources, such as discoveries. But sources are just raw materials. True innovation needs people who understand how to shape the raw materials into useful products or services.
Innovating is messy business, one that requires collaboration and experimentation. Innovators need a place to collaborate, to experiment, create, learn and then try again. A place where they can even fail. The 50,000-square-foot facility Innovation Lab, which opened its doors Feb. 15, is a physical demonstration of S&T’s commitment to all the parts and pieces of innovation, even those that are messy. It provides our students the flexible and collaborative environment necessary to the process of becoming an innovator. Along with many throughout the S&T community, I am excited to see the structured and unstructured ways the building will be used.
If you’re on campus on Thursday, April 11, I hope you will join us at 4 p.m. for the dedication ceremony, and the reception immediately following. The Innovation Lab is at 650 Tim Bradley Way, directly south of the Havener Center.
From the newest building on campus to one of the university’s oldest traditions, please join me in celebrating the three Kummer College students who were members of St. Pat’s court this year: Third Guard Lex Rauer and First Page Dominic Dalpoas, both juniors in engineering management, and Second Page Henry Gnann, a junior in information science and technology. Congratulations to all.
