Apply Now for 2021 Arctic Innovator Program
The provides early career innovators and entrepreneurs the opportunity to spend up to two years developing developing their technology and pursuing commercialization at a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory and UAF.
The Arctic Innovator program is open to early career professionals:
- who currently have or will have a graduate degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics field before the program start date;
- with a technology or area of research that they are interested in developing toward real-world adoption; and
- whose technology or area of research addresses Arctic-based challenges and aligns with U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office Strategic Goals.
Nathan Prisco, a 2020 Arctic Innovator, is representative of the passion and skill that the Arctic Advanced Manufacturing Innovator Program is seeking in candidates. Prisco is working on ammonia-based technologies for improving energy production. He explained that the program offers him “a great way to get science out of the laboratory and into the world at large.â€� Prisco said he was attracted to the significant research and commercialization support while also being “intrigued by ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, both in its pristine wilderness and the feeling that there is an incredible opportunity in the last frontier.â€�
To read more about Prisco’s experience, visit https://uaf.edu/oipc/news/2020/Welcome-Arctic-Innovator-Dr-Nathan-Prisco.php.
The application period for the UAF 2021 Arctic Innovator program is open! The application deadline is Jan. 8, 2021. To learn more or apply, visit: .

