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Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship

We are a dedicated institute for student entrepreneurs across campus and beyond. We aim to maximize your success by fostering your entrepreneurial mindset, promote inter-disciplinary collaboration and provide support for the creation and development of your new ventures. Jumpstart your ideas and get involved today!

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Passion. Potential. Pitches. Don't miss any of the 2025 New Venture Challenge excitement.

Tune in Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. for great ideas and fierce competition. Then, join the judges, mentors, spectators and teams as they see who is going home with thousands of dollars in venture financing. The awards broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. and one team will walk away as the overall best venture. 

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Central Michigan University’s College of Business Administration is the home of the Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship and the first Department of Entrepreneurship in the state of Michigan. We are a student-centric hub where experiential, curricular, and external entrepreneurial opportunities intersect.

Our mission is to maximize student success by fostering a campus-wide entrepreneurial mindset that promotes inter-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of new ventures.

We aim to create innovative programming, boost cross-campus and ecosystem collaboration and provide a comprehensive mentoring program.

Our institute provides extracurricular opportunities and is open to all undergraduate and graduate CMU students.

Student opportunities

  • Meet experienced alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and other business and political leaders.
  • Learn practical skills, innovative thinking, and connect with mentors and entrepreneurial resources.
  • Attend skill-building workshops and compete in pitch competitions and Hackathons.
  • Take part in special scholarship programs and travel experiences.
  • Pitch your venture at our signature New Venture Challenge event and compete for up to $20,000 in cash awards.

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      CMU English professor publishes new book

      by Henry Heller

      Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ph.D., professor of English and associate editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, published a book on paranormal myths and media titled, “Monstrous Things: Essays on Ghosts, Vampires, and Things That Go Bump in the Night”. Weinstock investigates these myths and their representations in literature, film, television and pop culture.  

      The ghost section explores ghosts represented in pop culture and their relationship to justice and mourning. The section pays special attention to novelists Toni Morrison and Herman Melville. Morrison is most well-known for her novels: “The Bluest Eye”, “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved”. Melville famously authored “Moby Dick”.  

      The vampire section dives into the relationship between vampires and anti-Semitism, suicide and cinema. Weinstock also explores American vampires, Dracula and vampire suicide in this section.  

      The third section examines more recent topics such as “global pandemics, terrorism, mass shootings, stranger danger and social otherness.” This section focuses on pop culture media such as the films “IT” and “It Follows”.  

      Weinstock has published 28 books and more than 100 essays on horror, fantasy, science fiction and American literature. More information on Weinstock and his books can be found on his website. 

      This story is brought to you by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.

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