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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!

Tune in for excitement!

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. 

Start your entrepreneurial journey

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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      Chemistry majors get more options

      by Sanjay Gupta
      CMU chemistry majors now have a large variety of electives to choose from to tailor their education to their goals.

      Central Michigan University undergraduate chemistry majors now have four new concentrations and more specialty courses designed to give them added flexibility to tailor their education.

      A committee revamped the chemistry offerings to meet growing expectations that chemistry undergraduates coming out of college should have strong specialized skills to make an immediate contribution to industry or academia.

      The curriculum of the new concentrations is designed to give students a solid chemical science foundation and marketable skills in each specialty area, said Bingbing Li, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Science and Engineering.

      The new concentrations are:

      Materials chemistry: For students interested in the development and applications of polymers and nanoscale structures.

      Environmental chemistry: For students who are interested in understanding the impact of chemical substances on the environment.

      Chemical technology: For students who are interested in developing the skills to work in the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnological and related industries.

      General chemistry: For students who are interested in maximum flexibility for their program of study.

      All chemistry majors, regardless of concentration, start with the same foundational and core courses (analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry) then specialize with advanced courses and electives tailored to the concentration. They also are required to do an extended research project in collaboration with a professor of their choosing.

      For detailed information about courses and content, students may contact the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry or their academic advisor.

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