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Drew has his Real Estate Business Rocking and Rolling

Monday, April 18, 2022
On April 22, Nathan Drew will speak to a class of undergraduate entrepreneurs at the University of Iowa. The site of the presentation — the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory — still holds a special place in his heart.
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S5G Earns $25K at Innovation Challenge Awards Event

Thursday, April 14, 2022
S5G Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical eye drop compound that provides ocular protection, took home $25,000 for first place in the Innovation Challenge graduate/faculty/staff/incubator startup division at the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center award’s event April 13 at MERGE in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Leading the Way to Progressive Change

Monday, March 21, 2022
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HYRD wins $1,000 award for Iowa JPEC Startup Games

Monday, March 7, 2022
HYRD, an app that brings recently relocated adults together over common interests and group events to decrease loneliness, won the $1,000 first prize at University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center’s (Iowa JPEC) Startup Games on March 6 at the Hilton Garden Inn Iowa City Downtown University.
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Martell Bell, Entrepreneur

Friday, February 25, 2022
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Njenga Specializes in Stress-Free Vacation Planning

Wednesday, February 9, 2022
For nine years after earning a bachelor’s degree, Dana Njenga worked eight hours a day, five days a week, repeating the cycle week, after week, after monotonous week. But when the time came for rest and relaxation, Njenga, her husband, and three children rarely answered the call.