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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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      Study led by CMU College of Medicine faculty member shows positive effects of steroids on preterm infant development

      by Kelly Belcher

      A study recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows preterm babies born after their mom received a single dose of steroids had a 1% increase in survival and a 1% increase in survival without illness for every hour that passed between administration of the drug and birth.

      The study was conducted by Sanjay Chawla, M.D., a neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and faculty member with the CMU College of Medicine along with colleagues from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which also funded the research.

      Medical providers typically give steroids to expectant mothers at risk of early delivery to help the baby’s lungs mature.  For maximum effect, the steroids are administered in two to four doses within 48 hours prior to delivery.  In some cases, circumstances may arise that narrow the 48-hour window.

      “The researchers set out to determine if and how steroids given within a short time before a preterm birth benefitted the infant,” Chawla said.  “Our analysis showed that even a couple of hours of exposure to a single dose of steroids may benefit babies as young as 22 to 27 weeks gestation, and those benefits improve with every additional hour before birth.”

      After analyzing records for 1,806 infants born from 22 to 27 weeks of pregnancy, researchers found that, in addition to reducing mortality, steroids given before birth to preterm infants can also reduce the chances of breathing and intestinal complications and bleeding inside the brain.  These findings support a proactive approach to administering steroids when a preterm birth is imminent.

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