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Innovation Challenge Winners Focus on Microbes
January 06, 2021
The winning student team has developed a wipe that kills bacteria, including MRSA, on surfaces for up to two months.
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Princeton Review Recognizes Campus for Its Graduate Entrepreneurship Studies
December 11, 2020
For the first time, UMass Amherst has earned recognition on Princeton Review’s annual roster, Top Schools for Graduate Entrepreneurship Studies.
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Nutriply Wins Innovation Challenge: The Seed Pitch
November 24, 2020
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the four-part Innovation Challenge continued with The Seed Pitch on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
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UMass Undergrads Active in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programming
November 23, 2020
On Saturday and Sunday, October 24-25, UMass’ Entrepreneurship Club hosted its marquee event – ULaunch.
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Isenberg Alumni Start Wine Import Business
October 16, 2020
Boston-based Vine Farmer, founded by Jace Chaffee '08 and his brother Kaden Chaffee '10, imports and wholesales wines from growers in Italy and Germany for sale to retailers and restaurants in Massachusetts.
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Students Develop Time-Management App
October 15, 2020
The app, ClassMate, has been downloaded from the App Store by users at 200 colleges and counting.
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$2,500 Awarded at Annual Minute Pitch
October 15, 2020
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the four-part Innovation Challenge began with The Minute Pitch on Monday, Oct. 13. Determined by a panel of industry expert judges, $2,500 in prize money was awarded to the first-, second- and third-place teams and the audience choice selection.
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Bac-Be-Gone Wins $41,000 in Innovation Challenge: The Final
September 25, 2020
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the four-part 2019-20 Innovation Challenge concluded with The Final on Wednesday, September 23. In front of a panel of four judges, four student-led startups gave five-minute pitches describing their ventures and participated in a five-minute Q&A session.
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Collegiate Summer Venture Program Hosts Cohort Graduation
August 05, 2020
The 2020 program marked the second year of partnership for the Berthiaume Center and VVM. Applications were open to all 14 Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative schools and colleges.
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Student Entrepreneurship Club Wins Campus Sammy Awards
May 19, 2020
On top of receiving the Outstanding Recreation Student Org Award for the second year in a row, the Entrepreneurship Club also took home the Campus Impact Award, which recognizes an innovative initiative that has had a positive effect on the university.
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Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative Awards Announced
May 04, 2020
UMass students were recognized by the Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation Entrepreneurship Initiative in late April.
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Four Ventures Advance to Innovation Challenge: The Final
March 10, 2020
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the four-part Innovation Challenge continued with The Semifinal on Wednesday, February 26. In front of a panel of four judges, 16 student-led startups gave five-minute pitches describing their ventures and participated in a 10-minute Q&A session.
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Berthiaume Connects Campus Entrepreneurs with Isenberg MBAs
February 19, 2020
Through the Berthiaume Center’s new venture counseling initiative, Office Hours, on-campus MBA students advise startup founders from across the UMass Amherst campus on ideas and business plans.
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UMass Amherst Hult Prize Winner Focuses on Food Waste
December 24, 2019
This year’s UMass Amherst round of the Hult Prize, hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, was won by an Isenberg-led venture called Qualtags, which aims to develop stickers that will more effectively show when food has spoiled.
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OIM Students Lend Support to Berthiaume Startups
December 18, 2019
During the fall semester, a course in project management taught by Radu Vlas, an operations and information management lecturer, married student teams with local venture founders vetted through Isenberg’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Celebrating Innovation Challenge and Hult Prize Winners
December 04, 2019
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, a Celebration of Innovation Challenge: The Seed Pitch and Hult Prize was held on Wednesday, November 20. An audience of more than 100 students, faculty, staff, and community members were on hand as the top four Seed Pitch teams and the Hult Prize winner and runner-up were recognized and gave minute-long pitches of their ventures.
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Business and Entrepreneurship Librarian Begins Isenberg Office Hours
December 03, 2019
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library’s Business and Entrepreneurship Librarian Alison Messier has started holding office hours in the Isenberg building.
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First-Year Engineering Student Wins Minute Pitch
October 29, 2019
The four-part Innovation Challenge began with The Minute Pitch on Wednesday, Oct. 16. In front of an audience of nearly 200 students, faculty, staff and supporters, 26 ventures gave 60-second pitches of their startup idea.
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Collegiate Summer Venture Program Celebrates Startup Success
August 06, 2019
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship and Valley Venture Mentors (VVM), the Collegiate Summer Venture Program (CSVP) wrapped its 10 weeks of programming, mentoring, networking and curriculum with a Celebration on Monday, July 29, at VVM’s Hub in Springfield, Mass.
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Innovation Challenge Lives up to its Name
April 08, 2019
Let's Talk About It won top honors among the six ventures competing for seed money at the 2018-2019 Innovation Challenge Final.
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