Entrepreneurship Department

Shinwon Noh is a passionate teacher and deeply committed to creating an engaging and experiential learning environment for entrepreneurship students. Outside the classroom, her research interests are cultural entrepreneurship, career and occupations, and emergence of new business categories. She has published in management and sociology journals with her work focusing on the creative industries and community-based philanthropy. She earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University. 

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AnnMarie Thomas focuses her research on design process and prototyping, and the ways creativity and play can enhance learning environments. She is the founder and director of the St. Thomas Playful Learning Lab, which invites students to look at engineering challenges through a playful lens. Working with St. Thomas undergrad students in the PLL, Thomas founded Squishy Circuits, a product that uses homemade play dough to demonstrate electrical properties and turns kids into circuit designers. The success of Squishy Circuits led to a popular TED talk.

Casey Frid, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship. He studies entrepreneurship and strategy and has published papers in top academic journals on topics ranging from early stage venture creation to collaborative strategies among firms. He teaches courses on entrepreneurial thinking and strategy in the graduate and undergraduate programs, and he has given seminars on these topics at the University of Queensland, Illinois State University, and the College of Charleston.