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Led by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) within the Costello College of Business at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, the Patriot Pitch Competition supports early-stage business ventures and ideas from Â鶹ÊÓƵ students and recent alumni. On April 11, the finalists made their final pitches on the Fairfax Campus. 

New EduRank report on university performance in research highlights eighteen Â鶹ÊÓƵ programs as the best in Virginia, with Â鶹ÊÓƵ's entrepreneurship ecosystem as No.1 among all public institutions.

The college that now bears Donald G. Costello’s name is a fitting testament to his entrepreneurial legacy. This extends not only to coursework and outreach programs, which have long stressed entrepreneurship, but also to the faculty’s research expertise. Indeed, a number of Costello College of Business professors were key contributors to Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s being named the #2 university for entrepreneurship research in North America by independent ratings agency EduRank.

Princess Aliyah Pandolfi, BS in Management '04, is the co-founder and executive director of Kashmir World Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of endangered species through novel technologies, such as autonomous drones and AI.

During her time at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumna Shrishti Singh has used all the tools the university provides to bring her discovery to the marketplace.

The big winners of a two-month-long competition to create innovative ways to combat counterfeiting were Â鶹ÊÓƵ students and alumni—and the world at large. See who won the thousands in prize money in the Bring Down Counterfeiting Hackathon 2023 and who helped sponsor it.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ is No. 1 among public universities for research performance in entrepreneurship, and No. 2 overall nationally, in the latest report from EduRank.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum Alex Hussein (BS Information Systems and Operations Management ‘21), who is also known as @DC Spot, shares his recommendations for a few must-go-restaurants in local Fairfax. Alex is a food influencer with over 215,000 Instagram followers. His videos feature eateries throughout the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas.

Meet the person behind @DCSpot’s almost 200,000 Instagram followers: Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum Alex Hussein.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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.