\u201cCreativity is not limited to the arts,\u201d said Associate Professor of Theater Christian DuComb, who is also the associate dean of the faculty for faculty recruitment and development. \u201cDavid\u2019s residency has given us insight into how we can continue to provide opportunities for collaboration among students and faculty in innovative and interdisciplinary ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of his student interactions, Kelley consulted with the innovation fellows from Colgate\u2019s Design for America Studio during a roundtable discussion. The studio develops solutions for problems facing the campus and community. Fellows are currently working on a project that would improve climate education for school-aged children, and Kelley advised them to keep pushing themselves beyond what is comfortable \u2014 not to get discouraged during the design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students participated in an interdisciplinary seminar with Kelley and other faculty members to workshop design-related challenges in creative projects. Faculty mentors included Peter L. and Maria T. Kellner Endowed Chair in the Arts, Creativity, and Innovation DeWitt Godfrey; Assistant Professor of Computer Science Noah Apthorpe; Professor of Earth and Environmental Geosciences and Peace and Conflict Studies Karen Harpp; and Weiner Family Entrepreneur in Residence Reece Wilson. Students shared their projects and received feedback from their mentors and Kelley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA design-thinking tenant that really works is storytelling,\u201d Kelley advised the students. \u201cPaint a picture of the future \u2014 where your idea is in it, and it\u2019s working. That allows all kinds of people to help you with your idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also encouraged the students to move toward prototyping to test their concepts. This is part of the design-thinking process. \u201cPrototyping allows you to gather information about your idea, rather than just thinking about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelley visited two Department of Computer Science courses on human-computer interaction, toured Bernstein Hall, and visited current University exhibitions. He also met with the ACI Steering Committee to strategize about the next phase of the ACI Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEveryone is wildly creative,\u201d Kelley said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to teach students to be creative \u2014 we just have to remove the blocks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Clifford Family Innovator-in-Residence program is a cornerstone of the Middle Campus Initiative for Arts, Creativity, and Innovation at Colgate and is funded by a permanent endowment from Trustee Emeritus Chris Clifford \u201967, H\u201911, P\u201993 and Carrie Clifford \u201993.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The engineer, designer, and entrepreneur visited campus as the Clifford Family Innovator-in-Residence in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":18300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3073,3072],"coauthors":[2646],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scene","tag-innovator-in-residence","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-4L9","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/040925_David_Kelly_MDD_0408.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18372,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions\/18372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/040925_David_Kelly_MDD_0542-1024x683.jpg\")