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Last month, while the sports world was reveling in March Madness, entrepreneurs were tuning in to Inc. magazine’s Coolest College Startup competition to see which of 16 ventures would win the 2017 title. This year, Ģ����Ƶ was the only university represented twice on the brackets — and both ventures made it to the third round […]

On March 11, approximately 25 Ģ����Ƶ students and alumni came together in New York City to provide support for a student venture, UNRAVEL.

Five years ago, on the cusp of a Major League Baseball (MLB) players’ strike, two Ģ����Ƶ students, Harry Raymond ’11 and Ethan Levitt ’11, along with Professor Ken Segall, explored what they determined to be a broken MLB free agency system. That work was published by the Baseball Hall of Fame and was presented at […]

Caroline Danehy ’19 never expected to appear on national television. But a stroke of inspiration at a special summer camp offered her the chance to make an appearance on the Animal Planet series Treehouse Masters. Two years ago, Danehy, then a junior in high school, decided to spend a summer day volunteering at Sunrise Day […]

Ģ����Ƶ students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are writing back to campus to keep our community posted on their progress. This article was written by Erica Pais ’17, a sociology and educational studies double major from Sharon, Mass., interning at Chicory — a startup […]

Ģ����Ƶ and Thought Into Action hosted the fifth annual Entrepreneur Weekend, April 8–9.

Entrepreneur Weekend 2016 is just around the corner. Ģ����Ƶ’s fifth annual celebration of ideas, grit, and nerve kicks off with a Shark Tank–style panel on Friday, April 8. Steven Bertoni ’02, Forbes magazine tech editor, will host a conversation with four innovative entrepreneurs — the creative minds behind a series of visionary and exciting companies: Tyler Haney, CEO, Outdoor Voices Payal Kadakia, CEO and […]

When siblings Caroline ’19 and Jake Danehy ’16 set out to make the eco-friendly clothing line that would eventually become Fair Harbor, Caroline was still in high school, and the idea was firmly rooted in soil, not the sea. “We had an initial idea called Three R Clothing. It stood for reuse, refresh, and revitalize. […]

Congratulations to Maggie Dunne ’13 and Ryan Smith ’13, each of whom has made an appearance on one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists. Dunne, who double majored in Native American studies and religion, founded Lakota Children’s Enrichment, Inc., (LCE) while still in high school. As a Ģ����Ƶ sophomore, she joined the university’s Thought Into Action […]

Miranda Scott ’18 launched The Waffle Cookie just last summer, and she’s already learning the ups and downs of running a business. Scott recently participated in the annual “Real” Elevator Pitch competition, where college students present their ideas to investors during elevator rides up the second-tallest building in St. Louis, Mo. Twenty finalists were invited […]