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Mason has established a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) Program to bolster the start-up market and opportunities in the greater Washington, D.C., region and across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The business school’s SOAR Initiative is a critical building block in 91����’s efforts to advance social mobility, or an individual’s ability to improve their socioeconomic status.

A 91���� multidisciplinary research team recently received $5,000 in funding from the VentureWell Accelerator to continue to develop their app iCONNECT SUD.

91���� computer science researchers are making exercise virtually fun.

On May 9, 91���� celebrated its research enterprise with Innovation Awards, recognizing the Innovator of the Year and a Mason start-up, and those who received and/or licensed a patent.

Fifteen teams competed for $40K in prizes at the 91���� School of Business Patriot Pitch Competition during the in-person April 13 event on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.

With $40,000 in seed funding up for grabs, 91���� undergraduate students and recent alumni are preparing to pitch their business ideas to a panel of local business professionals and Mason alumni on Thursday, April 13 at the School of Business Patriot Pitch Competition.

Student entrepreneurs Arastalis B. Choudhury and Fariha Askar and their company NECX are part of the MIX's incubator program.

As a sophomore, electrical engineering major Sai Srivatsav Gutala started a student club called the Inventors and Innovations Team (IIT) with one of his classmates, computer engineering major Nicholas Paschke.

It has been busy year at the Mason Innovation Exchange (MIX). Since the 91���� makerspace opened in its new space in Horizon Hall in September 2021, it has seen a lot of traffic—more than 9,000 visitors in spring 2022—and has some successes to report.