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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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      Hand sanitizing lesson goes worldwide

      by Sanjna Jassi
      A CMU chemistry faculty member’s hand sanitizing lesson has been published by McGraw Hill and sent to chemistry instructors worldwide.

      ​Central Michigan University Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty member Brad Fahlman knows how important hands-on activities are to learning and retention.

      So when educational publisher McGraw Hill asked him to devise a lesson on the effects of soap versus hand sanitizers in killing the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, he was all in.

      In partnership with the American Chemical Society, Fahlman created "The Chemistry of Hand Sanitizer and Soap Active Learning Activity," an interactive lesson that has been distributed to about 20,000 high school and postsecondary chemistry instructors around the world.

      "Instructors will use it in their classes to engage their students, to show students how chemistry influences their everyday lives," Fahlman said.

      The activity features two video links for the students to watch, then the instructor walks them through the lesson.

      Fahlman said the activity would be perfect for Chemistry 265, Chemical Physical Science for Elementary Teachers.

      This is not Fahlman's first interaction with McGraw Hill. He is also editor-in-chief of the college-level textbook "Chemistry in Context," ninth and current 10th editions.

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