The Shoemaker Scholars program brings together 10 Indiana University Bloomington students from a variety of academic disciplines. They encourage other students to explore their own entrepreneurial and innovative interests, and they oversee the StartupIU website that connects students with university-based startups. John and Donna Shoemaker funded the program, which awards annual scholarships to its members…. Read more »
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The 2019-20 Shoemaker Scholars: Meet Ryan Evan MacDonald
The Shoemaker Scholars program brings together 10 Indiana University Bloomington students from a variety of academic disciplines. They encourage other students to explore their own entrepreneurial and innovative interests, and they oversee the StartupIU website that connects students with university-based startups. John and Donna Shoemaker funded the program, which awards annual scholarships to its members…. Read more »
The 2019-20 Shoemaker Scholars: Meet Zach Simunic
The Shoemaker Scholars program brings together 10 Indiana University Bloomington students from a variety of academic disciplines. They encourage other students to explore their own entrepreneurial and innovative interests, and they oversee the StartupIU website that connects students with university-based startups. John and Donna Shoemaker funded the program, which awards annual scholarships to its members…. Read more »
The 2019-20 Shoemaker Scholars: Meet Kacey Wood
The Shoemaker Scholars program brings together 10 Indiana University Bloomington students from a variety of academic disciplines. They encourage other students to explore their own entrepreneurial and innovative interests, and they oversee the StartupIU website that connects students with university-based startups. John and Donna Shoemaker funded the program, which awards annual scholarships to its members…. Read more »
The 2019-20 Shoemaker Scholars: Meet Jenny Ye
The Shoemaker Scholars program brings together 10 Indiana University Bloomington students from a variety of academic disciplines. They encourage other students to explore their own entrepreneurial and innovative interests, and they oversee the StartupIU website that connects students with university-based startups. John and Donna Shoemaker funded the program, which awards annual scholarships to its members…. Read more »
Supporting student interest in innovation and entrepreneurship
During the first week of classes in the fall 2019 semester, experts in innovation, entrepreneurship and community engagement wrote about how IU campuses support students who are innovative and/or entrepreneurially minded. The original opinion pieces, posted on the Crimson Catalyst blog, can be read at the following links: “The upheaval in industrial innovation: Why IUPUI… Read more »
August 28 CREED meeting focused on strategies from Elevate Ventures, TechPoint and Center for Rural Engagement
By Kirsten Adams, Office of the Vice President for Government Relations and Economic Engagement, Indiana University The Indiana University Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development, or CREED, held its third quarterly meeting of 2019 Aug. 28 on the IUPUI campus. Bill Stephan, IU vice president for government relations and economic engagement, highlighted the start… Read more »
Alumni’s environmental compliance company receives Product of the Year award
Congratulations to Encamp Inc., founded by IU Bloomington graduates Luke Jacobs and Daniel Smedema along with Jacobs’ brother Sam. The company received the 2019 Product of the Year award from Occupational Health & Safety magazine in the EHS — or environmental, health and safety — Software category. Encamp has engineered a software platform that makes… Read more »
Teaching with Technology: IU East students’ desire for innovative machinery impacts our community
By Timothy W. Scales, senior lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Indiana University East At the Center for Entrepreneurship at Indiana University East, we teach with technology. Sometimes it’s the instructor teaching the students and, other times, it’s the students teaching the instructor. Over the past few years, we have utilized new equipment such as… Read more »
IUPUI students help to catalyze Indianapolis neighborhood small businesses
By Teresa A. Bennett, assistant vice chancellor, Office of Community Engagement, IUPUI SOURCE River West Entrepreneurship Center was launched in 2016 out of a partnership between the IUPUI Office of Community Engagement, LISC and the Near West/River West Great Places 2020 leadership. It was created to fulfill the neighborhood’s desire for entrepreneurship and small-business education… Read more »