This week on the podcast Matt sits down with Ranu Jung, Founding Executive Director and Endowed Chair for the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I3R) at the University of Arkansas. In the episode they discuss what I3R is from the brand new building with an architectural design inspired by the forest around us to the innovation clusters that the institute is focused on. The institute will concentrate efforts in innovation in food and data science, biosciences and bioengineering of metabolism, material sciences and integrative systems neuroscience. The core mission of the institute is in problem solving to drive societal impact in these key areas with resources available to company partners including physical resources as well as advisory and commercialization resources.
Learn more about I3R: https://i3r.uark.edu/