The University of Southern Mississippi’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Hattiesburg will join forces with the Gulf Coast center to conduct a series of Business 101 workshops in May. The SBDC programs are designed to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs with education and training opportunities for development of business…
The Entrepreneur Center @ Mississippi Development Authority continues its 2017 Spring Webinar Series on Tuesday, April 25 at noon with a presentation on Business Modeling by Entrepreneur Center director Joe Donovan. The webinar series is designed to help both aspiring and existing entrepreneurs boost their business profile in communities around…
The Entrepreneur Center @ Mississippi Development Authority continues its 2017 Spring Webinar Series on Tuesday, April 18 at noon with a presentation by our expert panel on Financing. The webinar series is designed to help both aspiring and existing entrepreneurs boost their business profile in communities around the state of…
The Houston High School Solar Car Race Team from Houston, Mississippi, traveled to Washington, D.C., recently for the premier of the IMAX film Dream Big: Engineering Our World. The team and its solar car Sundancer, a 16-foot-long vehicle engineered by the students, are featured in the film. Additionally, Sundancer was…
Susan Walley, a senior polymer science major at The University of Southern Mississippi, and recent University graduate Kristen Van de Voorde have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The fellowships cover three years of funding. Students receive a $34,000 stipend every year as well as a $12,000…
Gene Chambliss first became interested in remote controlled aircraft about 35 years ago when his parents bought him a gas-powered, remote controlled Cessna 172. “After that I was pretty much hooked on remote control aircraft of one type or another,” Chambliss said. “When I was a kid, my friends and…
Jackson, Mississippi, March 15, 2017 – Coalesce, in partnership with Innovate Mississippi, will soon offer CO.STARTERS, an internationally renowned platform that helps communities grow local business. The nine-week program equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the insights, education, relationships, and tools needed to turn business ideas into action by applying the lean business modeling…
Friday April 7 - Saturday April 8 University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, Mississippi The first-ever iD 8 Hackathon and STEM innovation conference is designed to promote coding and computer science education among African-American high school girls. The hackathon is a competition open to teams of five (including four students and…
Jackson, Mississippi, April 1, 2017 – Coalesce, in partnership with Innovate Mississippi, will soon offer CO.STARTERS, an internationally renowned platform that helps communities grow local business. The nine-week program, set to kickoff May 2017, will equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the insights, education, relationships, and tools needed to turn business ideas…
The Entrepreneur Center @ Mississippi Development Authority continues its 2017 Spring Webinar Series on Tuesday, April 11 at noon with a presentation on “Customer Acquisition” by the Entrepreneur Center’s Nash Nunnery. The webinar series is designed to help both aspiring and existing entrepreneurs boost their business profile in communities around…