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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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      Mathematics research = grant

      by Sanjay Gupta
      CMU mathematics Prof. Debraj Chakrabarti is awarded a grant for collaborative research in analysis of complex variables.

      A Central Michigan University Mathematics faculty member has been awarded a five-year Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for collaborative research related to Cauchy-Riemann equations.

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      I am very happy to receive this funding," Debraj Chakrabarti said. "It will help me to advance my research program and foster collaboration with colleagues."

      The grant for the project, titled "Analysis and Geometry in Several Complex Variables," will enable Chakrabarti to work with other researchers on projects related to Cauchy-Riemann equations in several variables and the Bergman space theory.

      The research is in the area of complex analysis, which is a form of calculus. The difference is that the numbers used are not ordinary "real" numbers, but "complex" numbers, which include imaginary numbers such as the square root of negative 1.

      "Apart from the theoretical importance of such results within mathematics, complex analysis is closely related to many applications, such as fluid flow, heat conduction, electrical circuits, etc.," Chakrabarti said. 

      "It also is related to many topics in mathematics, such as prime numbers and geometry of higher dimensions." 

      This is the second time Chakrabarti has received a Simons Collaboration grant, the first time being in 2014. 

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