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2025

May 1, 2025

Still delivering

How two OHIO alumni hatched a plan as students that turned into a multimillion-dollar company.


April 15, 2025

Bobcats thrive at Techstars Startup Weekend Dayton

ĢƵ University Entrepreneurship students participated in a creative three-day event that gave them many real-world experiences.


April 3, 2025

The Ford Foundation and REDF Impact Investing Fund (RIIF) are deepening their commitment to the future of the Appalachian region, announcing a groundbreaking $5 million initiative that puts investment capital directly in the hands of local students.


January 29, 2025

The event, a collaboration between the Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts, the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee, is intended to teach entrepreneurial thinking and to give artists the support system they need to succeed and serve their communities.


January 16, 2025

Panel topics, panelists announced for the second biennial OHIO ARTrepreneurship Summit

Panelists and speakers help students learn how to visualize themselves as successful creative practitioners, how to use entrepreneurial thinking and tools to support themselves and serve communities in and through the arts.


2024

December 17, 2024

Fostering innovation: Special education students in ĢƵ University's CoLab

An ĢƵ University special education class collaborated with the CoLab to create projects to help children with disabilities during the fall semester.


August 20, 2024

Center for Entrepreneurship hosts ĢƵ Invention League’s Honda State Finals

The ĢƵ Invention League's Honda State Finals brought together 170 student inventors from all over ĢƵ to the Convocation Center at ĢƵ University.


April 11, 2024

Scoring big in business: OHIO athletes train as entrepreneurs

ĢƵ University is equipping its athletes with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive beyond the field.


2023

November 9, 2023

OHIO’s Global Entrepreneurship Week events to include WeRateDogs founder, StartUp Market

Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world's largest celebration of innovators, job creators, and entrepreneurs launching startups, bringing ideas to life, driving economic growth, and expanding human welfare.


November 29, 2023

Innovation in action: Alumni fund award to incubate student research

One OHIO student entrepreneur will win $5,000 to help transform their life sciences idea into reality.


March 4, 2019
Chuck D of Public Enemy to keynote second annual ĢƵ University Music Industry Summit

Legendary rap icon Chuck D from Public Enemy will headline the second annual ĢƵ University Music Industry Summit, which features more than six hours of panels and discussions by music industry leaders, along with live performances, at Baker University Center in Athens, Thursday, March 28.

January 28, 2019
Second Annual Business of Games Summit brings renowned gaming experts to ĢƵ University Feb. 22

For the second year, national gaming and eSports leaders and entrepreneurs will convene in Athens to talk about the state of the gaming and eSports industries and emerging digital trends at the ĢƵ University Business of Games Summit on Friday, Feb.

October 31, 2018
OHIO’s new CoLab in Alden Library officially opens, creating a space for collaboration and innovation

ĢƵ University’s new CoLab, a space designed as a physical hub for student innovation and entrepreneurship activities across campus, officially opened during a ribbon cutting ceremony Oct. 18 on the third floor of Alden Library.

October 30, 2018
ĢƵ University’s Center for Entrepreneurship to Launch Bobcat Seed Fund

ĢƵ University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, a partnership between the College of Business and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, will launch the Bobcat Seed Fund this month to provide grants up to $3,000 to support promising ideas and ventures proposed by ĢƵ University student entrepreneurs.  This program is ma

October 10, 2018
Explore fashion industry careers at Make It Work in Fashion panel

Learn how a passion for fashion can become a profitable career at the Make It Work in Fashion event Monday, Oct. 15, from 5-8 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda.

September 21, 2018
Bobcat Seed fund accelerates student business development across campus through the Center for Entrepreneurship

As the development of ĢƵ University’s new “CoLab” facility in Alden Library is underway, the Center for Entrepreneurship plans to use a portion of the Bobcat Seed Fund, a $25,000 grant awarded by the Office of the President, to support student entrepreneurs building out their business concepts, promote the center and strengthen the spirit of e