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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.
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.
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Earth and Ecosystem Science Ph.D. student Sara Hansen, together with biology faculty member, Ana Monfils and graphic artist Rhea Ewing were just awarded a Botanical Society of America Botany and American Society of Plant Taxonomy Advocacy Leadership Grant.
Together, they will be creating and disseminating open-access modules that support emerging gender-diverse scientists. Specifically, they will be creating educational materials that embrace individual identities and engage students in the process of botanical science and discovery.
They will be working with Rhea Ewing (a graphic novelist) and their work will showcase their data science dissertation work in Michigan prairie fens.
Visit their website to learn more about their award.
Congratulations Sara, Ana, and Rhea!