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~~'''''Spring 2015: '''''~~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. ~~Last year, the~~ 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. ~~According~~ The Pitch Contest has not been held since, but we hope to ~~a student who is currently a Business Entrepreneurship major~~collaborate with the business school, ~~“the business department gives us~~ alumni relations and the ~~tools that are needed~~ career development center to ~~become successful and creative entrepreneurs~~reinstate the Pitch Contest by spring of 2018.~~”  ~~

Pitch Contest: The Pitch Contest was organized to “help students gain experience in developing and presenting ideas for innovation.”  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 ~~showing~~ provide space for feedback on how students ~~how to~~ may improve their ideas and/or pitches for the future. ~~Two~~ Students were given two minutes to describe ~~your idea~~ their ideas and convince the judges of ~~its~~ their merit ~~made the Pitch Contest very interesting and intense. Elevator pitches do not have fancy presentations with powerpoints and posters; they have simplicity~~, ~~the product and the presenter. Students learned an important aspect of the business world through these quick pitches as they learned~~ learning how to best communicate in order to sell their ~~product and learn from the judges comments as well as their fellow classmates~~products/ideas.

'''''Fall 2016: '''''Regarding the Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor, we would like to add that faculty currently teaching entrepreneurship classes are striving to enroll students from all different disciplines. The Pitch Contest has not been held since the aforementioned one, in the spring of 2014, but we are hoping to work with the business school, alumni relations and the career development center to reinstate the Pitch Contest by spring of 2018. ~~== ~~<span style="~~font-size~~color: ~~16px~~rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ~~color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background~~font-~~color~~size: ~~transparent~~16px; font-weight: bold~~; vertical-align: baseline~~; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty~~ ==~~

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. 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.'''Innovation Allies:'''Dr. Samya Bano Zain, Associate Professor of Physics, Physics Department ChairDr. Scott Manning, Dean of Global ProgramsDr. Emma Fleck, Associate Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship)Dr. Betsy Verhoeven, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Center for Teaching and LearningRobert Sieczkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Research Librarian: Instruction and Digital ScholarshipDr. Amir Bahman Radnejad, Assistant Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship)

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