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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. 

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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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      Experience adds up for math faculty

      by Sanjay Gupta
      Statistics and analytics faculty members organize their third international conference on statistical distributions and applications.

      Carl Lee and Felix Famoye, mathematics faculty members in the College of Science and Engineering, are organizing their third International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications.

      This year’s conference will be held Oct. 10-12 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is supported by the National Security Agency.

      Their first conference was in 2013 at Central Michigan University and also was supported by the NSA. The second conference, in 2016, was held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. It was supported by the Canadian Statistical Science Institute and had participants from more than 25 countries. The conferences are held every three years.

      So far this year, more than 200 researchers from around the world are scheduled to present their research and exchange ideas.

      All researchers presenting this year are invited to submit their papers to be considered for a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications.

      This summer, a Department of Statistics, Actuarial and Data Sciences is scheduled spin to off as a separate department from the Department of Mathematics, Lee said.

      Each statistics and analytics faculty member is serving as an organizing committee member of this year’s event, with Famoye and Lee as co-chairs. Other committee members are Mohamed Amezziane, Chin-I Cheng, Kahadawala Cooray, John Daniels, Madhuka Samanthi, Jungsywan Sepanski and Daniel Wang.

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