Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program launches 15th cohort with 39 Iowa entrepreneurs 

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program announced its 15th cohort in Iowa, with 39 small business owners from across the state participating. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, which is administered by Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa, is offered at no cost to small business owners and…

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University of Iowa’s DesignDash expands internationally

The University of Iowa’s DesignDash program will expand internationally for the first time in March, bringing its innovation-focused learning model to Lisbon, Portugal. Led by Dawn Bowlus, director of the Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship, the program will introduce approximately 30 medical students at Católica Medical School to design thinking…

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NewBoCo to lead planning for Iowa Aviation Technology Center to grow aerospace talent, entrepreneurship

NewBoCo will lead the ecosystem building components for the Iowa Aviation Technology Center, a regional effort to strengthen Iowa’s economy by expanding aerospace and aviation workforce capacity, innovation and entrepreneurship. The nonprofit received philanthropic support from JPMorganChase for the initiative. NewBoCo’s goal is to help position Iowa as a global…

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Iowa Primary Care Association awarded NIH grant to build fairness-aware AI model 

The Iowa Primary Care Association was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to help fund an effort to develop, train and pilot a “fairness-aware” artificial intelligence/machine learning model with the goal of improved health outcomes for patients served by Iowa’s community health centers. The $523,750 NIH AIM-AHEAD grant…

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