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2025

May 1, 2025

Still delivering (opens in a new window)

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 (opens in a new window)

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


April 3, 2025

Ford Foundation, RIIF Launch $5 Million Initiative to Empower Next Generation of Appalachian Investors (opens in a new window)

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

Ohio University holds ARTrepreneurship Summit to give artists the tools they need to succeed (opens in a new window)

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 (opens in a new window)

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 Ohio University's CoLab (opens in a new window)

An Ohio 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 Ohio Invention League’s Honda State Finals (opens in a new window)

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


April 11, 2024

Scoring big in business: OHIO athletes train as entrepreneurs (opens in a new window)

Ohio 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 (opens in a new window)

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


February 10, 2023
Center for Entrepreneurship and College of Fine Arts Host Inaugural Arts Launch

The OHIO Center for Entrepreneurship coordinated the inaugural Arts Launch pitch competition on January 26th in collaboration with the ARTrepreneurship Summit and the Bobcat Seed Fund.

October 31, 2022
Center for Entrepreneurship Celebrates Women Entrepreneurship Week

On Friday October 21st, Ohio University students from across campus gathered in the CoLab to celebrate Women Entrepreneurship Week by hearing from founder and CEO of

October 3, 2022
Exceptional Student Entrepreneur Highlight: Sean Smothers

On a chilly October morning in 2021, a small booth stood alone in College Green. The smell of coffee drifted through the air and, as many college students made their way to classes, they stopped to grab a cup, but what they didn’t know was that they were getting much more.

October 3, 2022
CoLab Funds Bobcats Go Green Event

There is always something to celebrate in Athens. Whether it’s graduation, Greek Life Rush Week, or Ohio University anniversaries, campus is always glittered in decorations.

April 30, 2021
Entrepreneurship students reflect on a difficult year with optimism and resilience

The last year has been hard. Full stop. Some of us (I'd include myself) have been really lucky and have gotten through the pandemic largely unscathed. Others have suffered unimaginable pain -- lost loved ones, lost jobs and businesses, and more. Our hearts go out to everyone who's struggled in the last year. 

April 30, 2021
OHIO students, Xavior and Ilyaas Motley, working to revolutionize protective gloves

Calling all culinary artists, medical workers, fashion gurus, and astronauts! You all wear gloves, right? Yep, that’s right. I said gloves.

March 9, 2021
Paige Burger
January 20, 2021
Global Entrepreneurship Week highlights importance of speed in innovation to pandemic response

When faced with a crisis like COVID-19, researchers like Robert Huebner believe that it is important to go with a safe vaccine that works so that lives could be saved, rather than spend months perfecting it.