Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Arizona State Gets Kauffman Entrepreneurship Grant

Arizona State University is the recipient of one of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's enterpreneurship grants, announced last week. The Kauffman Foundation, which focuses on encouraging entrepreneurship, awarded $5M to ASU as part of a $25.5M grant program to nine universities. The grants will go toward making entrepreneurship a campus-wide opportunity at the school. Other schools receiving grants included Brown University, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, NYU, Purdue, Syracuse, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Maryland-Baltimore County.