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= <big><span style="font-size:largemedium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span></span></span></big> =<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"><big><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susquehanna University has entrepreneurship and innovation opportunities for students and experienced and helpful professors. Students are able to learn from professors through their class lessons and succeed outside the classroom with their own ventures and research. The Sigmund Weis School of business has an entrepreneurship and innovation minor. Additionally, Susquehanna has recently started a partnership with Columbia University for a combined degree program in liberal arts and Science education and Engineering. Interested students will be able to&nbsp;obtain two bachelors degrees in just five years.</span></span></span></span></big></p><big><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student</span></span></span></span></big>

<big><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Susquehanna is growing in opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation. The university has recently established an Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor to replace the business administration entrepreneurship emphasis, and faculty currently teaching entrepreneurship classes are striving to enroll students from all different disciplines. Students hoping to create their own organizations or campus publications will quickly learn about the faculty and staff’s willingness to give advice and guidance to help turn their ideas into realities. The university ran a Pitch Contest in the spring of 2014 and saw students from various backgrounds and departments bring forth ideas for innovation and creativity. The Pitch Contest has not been held since, but we hope to collaborate with the business school, alumni relations and the career development center to reinstate the Pitch Contest by spring of 2018.</span></span></big>

<big><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><u>Pitch Contest</u>: The Pitch Contest was organized to “help students gain experience in developing and presenting ideas for innovation.” &nbsp;Alumni served as the judges of the event and were able to share their own experiences while building connections between current students and alumni for a greater network. The event helped to inspire ideas, as well as provide space for feedback on how students may improve their ideas and/or pitches for the future. Students were given two minutes to describe their ideas and convince the judges of their merit, learning how to best communicate in order to sell their products/ideas.&nbsp;</span></span></big>

<big><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty and Staff</span></span></span></big>

<big><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontline-familyheight: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1.4; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;">Susquehanna University faculty introduce a plethora of opportunity for the students to engage both on campus and the local/regional setting. Faculty at Susquehanna University have recently engaged in innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities with many companies and organizations such as the Keystone Innovation Zone and the American Physiological Society. These opportunities open the gateway for faculty members to provide funding and the opportunity for students interested in order to build their confidence and encourage their innovation and entrepreneurial skill set.</span><br/span></span></big><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><big><span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guidsize:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c383da6-32ce-591a-f3cb-561b62ac9d26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-sizecolor: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Recently, Keystone Innovation Zone provided funding to a professor in the Sigmund Weis Business School to assist in developing a website for the local Selinsgrove company, Fresh Roasted Coffee. The funding provided allowed the faculty member to involve two Susquehanna University students for this great opportunity. Keystone Innovation Zone has also provided faculty and students the privilegeof assisting another local company develop a device to scale trees in order to assist the hunters in the area. Currently, faculty in the Biology department at Susquehanna University are working to gain funding from the American Physiological Society and the National Science Foundation to conduct innovative research. The funding is said to not only assist the faculty member in their research but to encourage the opportunity for students to take part in the research as well.</span></span></span></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><big><span style="marginfont-size: 0pxmedium; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-sizefamily: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparenttimes new roman,times,serif;"></span></span></p>Additionally, the Center for Teaching and Learning provides grants for faculty actives that foster curricular or pedagogical innovations that will enhance the learning. Additionally, it supports teaching by creating teaching cells that take the form of small groups, talk-while-you-walk innovation, and mentoring relationships.</span></span></big><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><span /p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 40px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.415; font-sizecolor: 16pxrgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalsans-align: baselineserif; whitefont-spacesize: pre-wrap14.4px; backgroundtext-coloralign: transparentjustify;"></span></span></pp><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"></pbig><p dirspan style="ltrfont-size:medium;" ><span style="marginfont-family: 0pt 0pxtimes new roman,times,serif; padding">'''<span style="margin: 0px 40px 0px ; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4pxtransparent; text-align">Innovation Allies: justify;"</span>'''</span style></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0102, 0102, 0102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px14.4px; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrapjustify; background-color"><big><span style="font-size: transparentmedium;">Innovation Allies:</span>'''</p><p dir="ltr" style="marginfont-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4px; text-align: justifytransparent;">Dr. Samya Bano Zain, Associate Professor of Physics, Physics Department Chair</span></span style="margin></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0102, 0102, 0102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans'; , sans-serif; font-size: 16px14.4px; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrapjustify; background"><big><span style="font-colorsize: transparentmedium;">Dr. Samya Bano Zain<span style="font-family:times new roman, Associate Professor of Physicstimes, Physics Department Chairserif;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4px; text-align: justifytransparent;"><span Dr. Scott Manning, Dean of Global Programs</span></span></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0102, 0102, 0102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px14.4px; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentjustify;">Dr. Scott Manning, Dean of Global Programs</big><span></p><p dirstyle="ltrfont-size:medium;" ><span style="marginfont-family: 0pt 0pxtimes new roman,times,serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4pxtransparent; text-align">Robert Sieczkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Research Librarian: justify;"Instruction and Digital Scholarship</span></span style="margin: 0px></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0102, 0102, 0102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px14.4px; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrapjustify; background"><big><span style="font-colorsize: transparentmedium;">Robert Sieczkiewicz, Assistant Professor<span style="font-family:times new roman,times, Research Librarian: Instruction and Digital Scholarshipserif;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4px; text-align: justifytransparent;"><span Katie Burr, Director of the First Year Experience</span></span></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0102, 0102, 0102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px14.4px; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentjustify;">Katie Burr, Director of the First Year Experience</big><span></p><p dirstyle="ltrfont-size:medium;" ><span style="marginfont-family: 0pt 0pxtimes new roman,times,serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4px; text-align: justifytransparent;">Dr. Emma Fleck, Associate Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship)</span></span style="margin: 0px></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0102, 0102, 0102); font-family: 'Times New RomanOpen Sans'; , sans-serif; font-size: 16px14.4px; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrapjustify; background"><big><span style="font-colorsize: transparentmedium;">Dr. Emma Fleck<span style="font-family:times new roman,times, Associate Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship)serif;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(1020, 1020, 1020); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Open Sans', sanspre-serifwrap; fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.4px; text-align: justifytransparent;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0Dr. Betsy Verhoeven, 0Associate Professor of English, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning</span></span>Dr. Betsy Verhoeven, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning</span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><big><span style="marginfont-size: 0pxmedium; padding: "><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrappre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Dr. Amir Bahman Radnejad, Assistant Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship)</span></span></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><big><span style="marginfont-size: 0pxmedium; padding: 0px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontwhite-familyspace: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrappre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ron Cohen, Vice President for University Relations</span></span></span></big></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><big><span style="marginfont-size: 0pxmedium; padding: 0px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontwhite-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"transparent;">Becky Deitrick, Assistant VP of Alumni, Parent and Donor Engagement</span></span></span>Becky Deitrick, Assistant VP of Alumni, Parent and Donor Engagement</spanbig></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;"></p>