The Dowd Seed Fund supports new research at Carnegie Mellon University

	Can you imagine the energy demand we'll need to satisfy to power our economy in the future? Catherine Izard can. Catherine is a 2010 Dowd Research Fellow and is developing tools for policy makers to help them optimize the investments they'll make on our behalf. *Learn more*

	Can you imagine a day when organ replacements are readily available? Mary Beth Wilson can. Mary Beth is a 2010 Dowd Research Fellow and is researching how to engineer synthetic vascular networks that could some day help support tissue and organ replacement technologies. *Learn more*

	Can you imagine a day when millions of people no longer suffer from alzheimers? Minhua Qiu can. Minhua is a 2010 Dowd Research Fellow. She's working on understanding more about how information is transported through the body's nervous system so that we may someday avoid the breakdowns in communication that cause this disease. *Learn more*

	Can you imagine a day when hydrogen stations are as common as gas stations? Ethan Demeter can. Ethan is a 2010 Dowd Research Fellow and is testing new approaches to splitting water more efficiently to produce abundant and cheap hydrogen and oxygen. *Learn more*

Seeding new ideas and getting results

Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice in Wonderland, “If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.” The future's like that too. If we don't invest in the future we want, we'll still get one, but perhaps one not as prosperous or secure. We face interesting and, some would say, daunting challenges as we peer into the future. How will we supply ample and affordable energy for more and more people? How will we manage healthcare for an aging population? How will we continue to provide jobs and growth in our economies to sustain our standard of living? We provide funding for new ideas - ideas that are born in the minds of faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Our goal is simple - nurture these ideas to the point where they can “stand on their own” and earn follow-on funding from organizations that finance basic research in this country. So far our results have been pretty good. With your help, we can do even more.

Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice in Wonderland, “If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.” The future's like that too. If we don't invest in the future we want, we'll still get one, but perhaps one not as prosperous or secure.

We face interesting and, some would say, daunting challenges as we peer into the future. How will we supply ample and affordable energy for more and more people? How will we manage healthcare for an aging population? How will we continue to provide jobs and growth in our economies to sustain our standard of living?

We provide funding for new ideas - ideas that are born in the minds of faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Our goal is simple - nurture these ideas to the point where they can “stand on their own” and earn follow-on funding from organizations that finance basic research in this country. So far our results have been pretty good. With your help, we can do even more.

You can help us reach our goal of sponsoring another research fellow.

Contribute

Pradeep Khosla, Dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Engineering, discusses the Dowd Innovation Seed Fund and the impact on research.

Gary Fedder, Director of the Institute for Complex Engineereed Systems (ICES) at CMU, on the process and rationale for selecting Dowd fellowship proposals.

Subscribe

Signup for news and updates.

By the #'s

learn more...