MBAs helped with a business plan for grad student Kasia Sawicka, who won first place, and engineering student Plinio Guzman, who won second place in the campus business plan contest Entrepreneur Challenge. Held Thursday March 26 ten student startups presented to a panel of experts.  Winners entered the LI contest on April 2.

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Dean Manny London announced that the Innovation Lab  will move to the the space that had been the Harriman Cafe  off the lobby on the first floor.  While the old  space in a physics classroom on the second floor of Harriman captured the history of innovation, the new space will show off the lab to the public because of the glass wall facing on the quad.  Students will be able to see innovation  The transition will take place over the summer.

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From July 4 to July 30 undergraduate students can study Entrepreneurship across Countries and International Business in Rome.  These courses comprise half the specialization in International Business for Business major and count ward the Entrepreneurship Minor. .Applications have been extended to April 30. Apply at www.stonybrook.edu/studyabroad/process.html.
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Six inventors from SBU science faculty and staff marched through a two day PreSeed Boot Camp on March 6 and 12. The kickoff was held at the Garden City Hotel the evening of March 4 followed by the Tech Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. The two day Boot camp was held at the SBDC on Campus.  Three of the inventions were in biomedical field and three in alternative energy.

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Do you have a cool business idea?  Dead line for Business Plan March 13.

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