Student utilizes Auburn Entrepreneurship Program offerings to win SEC Pitch Competition

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Zac Young, a student in Auburn’s Entrepreneurship Program and resident in the New Venture Accelerator, found a way to make power lines safer for linesmen to install, more effective and cost-efficient. Using lessons learned from the entrepreneurship offerings afforded him by Auburn University and the Harbert College of Business, Young is able to cultivate his business idea.

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Summer Accelerator entrepreneurship program refines business ideas and propels them forward

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Eight teams of student entrepreneurs at Auburn University were provided lessons in protecting intellectual properties, financial analyses, business law, confidentiality agreements, customer discovery, website and search engine optimization, and more, during the annual eight-week Summer Accelerator Program, sponsored by the Harbert College of Business.

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Techstars Sports Accelerator names Auburn startup Tennibot to its 2020 class

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After undertaking a world-wide search for the "best founders -- with tremendous determination, large visions, [and] demonstrated in-depth knowledge of their particular markets", Techstars Sports Accelerator has named Auburn-based Tennibot as one of its ten 2020 class members.

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Chemical engineering trio bringing safer MRI contrast agent to market

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Founded in 2018 by Auburn University chemical engineering postdoctoral fellows Tareq Anani and Barry Yeh with Allan David, the John E. Brown Associate Professor of chemical engineering, NanoXort’s mission is to provide safer diagnostic tools for patient populations that currently receive suboptimum care.

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Auburn’s SiO2 receives $143 million contract to accelerate packaging production for COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics

SiO2 Materials Science, located in Auburn Technology Park West, announced yesterday a $143 million agreement with the federal government that will accelerate the company’s production of packaging for storing COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.

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Auburn’s pharmacy school supports community with production of hand sanitizer

In an effort to ensure those in the Auburn community continuing to serve are protected, faculty, staff and students at the Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy came together to compound, package and deliver hand sanitizer.

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