The Black Scholars Index (BSI) is now award winning, as they say. This past Friday, I won 3rd Place and a cash prize at the F.R.E.E. Research Poster Competition (Focusing Research on Entrepreneurial Empowerment). What is F.R.E.E? Focusing Research on Entrepreneurial Empowerment (FREE) is a research symposium with a poster session format. The purpose of this event is to provide a platform for students to showcase their research and receive feedback on it. Another purpose of the research symposium is to encourage entrepreneurship. Accordingly, we asked participants to dedicate a portion of their poster to explaining how they could apply their research to business exploits, namely a product or service. BSI is in its infancy, but has great potential and will launch its redesign and new … [Read more...]