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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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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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      Psychology student creates new measure to overcome self-report bias

      by Henry Heller

      Sydney Yochum, is a third-year graduate student studying Clinical Psychology, received a Summer Program for Arts and Research grant to create a new measure based off the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3). The MMPI-3 is a 300 true or false questionnaire about someone’s personal experience, which assesses many personality traits and psychopathological symptoms 

      Yochum is creating an informant measure to go along with the MMPI-3. An individual would take the MMPI-3 and a friend or acquaintance of the individual would take Yochum’s informant measure to gain more insight on the individual’s symptoms.  

      Yochum created the new measure using previous informant measures made by students of CMU’s psychology professor Nathan Weed, Ph.D., and the updated version of the MMPI. To test the measure, undergraduate students took the MMPI and nominated three informants (a family member, a friend, and an acquaintance) to take Yochum’s measure. In applied uses, the results of the MMPI and the new measure can help psychologists gain more insight on clients, other than their self-reports. Yochum says, “[The results] would be useful if the scores were the same or different, especially in the case of someone exaggerating or underestimating their symptoms.” 

      After CMU, Yochum plans to go into the forensic psychology field, specifically forensic assessments. In this role, Yochum would test people if they are competent to stand trial and test if people can use the insanity defense.  

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

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