Taylor Research Team Presents in Glasgow
What happens when philosophers, social scientists, designers, and social entrepreneurs start talking? New ideas for change, I hope. In early September 2019, I traveled to Glasgow, Scotland to attend the…
Changemakers Share their Social Ventures at Taylor Student Showcase
Photo by Gigsy. By Dustin Robertson. How can Tulane students create social impact through social ventures? Alaa Mohammad, a biostatician and epidemiologist, walks up to a microphone, raises her eyes…
Budding entrepreneurs unveil social ventures at Taylor Student Showcase
After six months of intense research and development, five Tulane student-led social ventures revealed business proposals at the Taylor Student Showcase held April 11. The ventures, from a mental health…
Changemaker Institute update: Top Box Foods launches Healthy Corner Store Collaborative
Healthy Corner Store Collaborative grand opening event on Sept. 15, 2017. Photo courtesy Top Box Foods – New Orleans. Top Box Foods – New Orleans is co-coordinating a pilot project…
Changemaker Institute Graduate Anoop Jain visits Changemaker RLC
“There’s a lot of value in understanding how we go about creating change… I think it’s really important to remember that change can be something that is as little as…
Tulane graduate student to speak on entrepreneurship in Pakistan
Photo by Ryan Rivet. Tulane graduate student and 2015 Alvarez Spark Award recipient Sydney Gray travels to Pakistan this week for the U.S. Embassy to Pakistan’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. Gray…
SISE class uses design thinking to help local organizations
Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test. Five words to live by for students in Professor Allison Schiller’s Design Thinking for Collective Impact class. A core in the Social Innovation and Social…
Taylor Student Showcase Celebrates Changemaker Institute Alumni & Awards Students Over $50,000
An equipment-share lending library for STEM classroom supplies that provides teachers with resources to safely and effectively implement hands-on learning. An accessible, comprehensive, unbiased and free voter's guide covering all…
Living and Learning as Changemakers in New Orleans
This fall, in partnership with the Taylor Center, Tulane Housing and Residence Life launched the Changemaker Residential Living Community (RLC) at Paterson House, a living learning community for students interested…
Problem solving through design
A team of Tulane University students is collaborating with the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking to bring hands-on, creative problem-solving opportunities to campus. The group launched…