IMS graduate student Anna Douglas selected for prestigious entrepreneurship program

Posted by Sarah Ross on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 in News.

An interdisciplinary materials science graduate student has been selected for a prestigious entrepreneurship program to scale and commercialize a revolutionary method of carbon nanotube production.

Anna Douglas is one of five entrepreneurs selected for the inaugural cohort of the Department of Energy Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

The accelerator program includes $350,000 in seed funding, two years of salary, unlimited access to ORNL resources and access to experts in her field.