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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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      College of Medicine associate dean key player in release of new national diabetes guidelines

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      S. Sethu K Reddy, M.D., CMU College of Medicine senior associate dean for research and president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology is an author of the new national guideline for the care and management of people with or at risk of diabetes.

      Dr. Sethu K Reddy smiles at the camera while wearing a gray suit coat and red tie.Released in late September, the guideline features 170 updated and new evidence-based clinical practice recommendations for diabetes at every stage, including prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

      “The guideline is framed to support person-centered, team-based clinical decision-making, which importantly puts the patient at the center to improve care for people with prediabetes and diabetes,” said Reddy in the AACE news release announcing the new guideline.

      The 2022 guideline addresses a variety of new topics related to the management of diabetes, including COVID-19 vaccination, telehealth, social determinants of health, male and female infertility, secondary diabetes, and nutritional supplements. Additionally, the 2022 guideline includes expanded sections on the management of hyperglycemia in the hospital setting and hypoglycemia, quality of life recommendations on sleep hygiene and depression, and updated safety-oriented recommendations on occupational risk and risk of cancer.

      To learn more, watch an interview Dr. Reddy conducted with PatientCare Online, a digital source for information about primary care medicine.

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