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Aiden Tahmazian pitches Circlez at the 2023 New Venture Expo. - Photo via Aiden Tahmazian

Student-run app Circlez launches on the app store

Sarah Shockey April 3, 2024

A new app co-founded by a Rowan student has recently launched. Circlez is a social productivity app that allows users to create and track their goals with their friends, family, and peers based on...

Otha Smith III. - Photo via Smith III's LinkedIn profile

Virtual cannabis entrepreneurship seminar with Tetragram founder and CEO

Bryant Lopez March 20, 2024

A Cannabis Entrepreneurship Seminar took place on March 14 organized by Students for Sensible Drug Policy. The event was hosted by Otha Smith III, the founder & CEO of Tetragram, a digital journal...

Alum Earl Clark Jr.'s entrepreneurship journey in vintage fashion

Alum Earl Clark Jr.’s entrepreneurship journey in vintage fashion

Bryant Lopez February 28, 2024

Earl Clark Jr. can remember when he was younger and would go to the thrift store with his mother even though he would rather be at the mall. But his mother said otherwise. “She said, ‘We going...

Rampulla poses with her safety app in New York City. - Photo via Siena Rampulla

PULLATracker officially launches March 1 for all Rowan students

Madison Miller February 28, 2024

Rowan MBA student, Siena Rampulla was a victim of a home break in the spring of 2022. For many 20-year-old women, this would have been isolating and could have the potential to put a dent in their collegiate...

Creatives 230 is an interdisciplinary space that intends to bridge the gap between creativity and business. - Productions Editor / Sarah Shockey

Creatives 230 named one of AACSB’s 2024 Innovations That Inspire

Sarah Shockey February 27, 2024

Since its launch in January of last year, Creatives 230, an interdisciplinary studio that connects creatives with business professionals in the Rowan community, has been recognized as one of the Association...

New interdisciplinary Creative Industries Entrepreneurship CUGS combines business and art classes. - Graphic / Julia Quennessen

Creative Industries Entrepreneurship CUGS launches this spring

Marchella Mazzoni February 7, 2024

A new opportunity for scholars to gain skills in entrepreneurial thinking, while taking a mix of business and creative classes is now available to Rowan students this spring semester, through The Certificate...

First place winners Bobica Bars accept their first place check for $4K. - Staff Writer / Paige Britt

Innovation and collaboration blossom during The Rowan Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s 2023 Idea Challenge

Paige Britt December 6, 2023

The Rowan Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted its annual Idea Challenge on Dec. 1, where 45 teams presented their products to judges, investors, and fellow students. Partnered with the Rowan...

Innovation and creativity blossom in Business Hall during the 2023 New Venture Expo and stART up Gallery

Madison Miller April 26, 2023

Students across all majors brought their ideas and entrepreneurial skills to this year’s 2023 New Venture Expo and stART up Gallery on Friday, April 21 in the Business Hall. This took place just before...

First place winner Siena Rampulla poses with the $30K check for PULLATracker. - Photo / Tyler Allen Williams

Rowan student Siena Rampulla wins first place $30K prize at the 2023 Rohrer New Venture Competition for PULLATracker

Madison Miller April 26, 2023

PULLATracker, a mobile safety app startup founded by Siena Rampulla, took home first place and $30,000, the highest prize ever awarded to a student at the 2023 Rohrer New Venture Competition, on Friday,...

Nicholas Nastasi (left) and Joshua Perry (right) pitching their sticker products like IV bags, needles and rolls of stickers. - Photo via 4UMedicalDesigns.com

Rowan students win TCU’s Values and Ventures competition with medical stickers for kids

Madison Miller April 19, 2023

Rowan students and founders of 4U Medical Designs, Nicholas Nastasi and Joshua Perry, are selling stickers and creating smiles nationwide with their medical grade, child-friendly designs.  After receiving...

Senior Hydia Bearfield discusses how important the multicultural organizations on Rowan's campus are. - Photo / Hydia Bearfield

Senior Spotlight: Hydia Bearfield, Class of 2022

Jennifer McGraw November 3, 2021

She’s a model, the president of two multicultural organizations at Rowan, and she’s a mother. If there’s one phrase to describe senior Hydia Bearfield, it would be “girl boss.” Hydia Bearfield...

Jean Edelman (left) and her husband, Ric Edelman, pledged $10 million for scholarships to students in the College of Communication and Creative Arts at Rowan. - Photo via Rowan Today

PREVIEW: “The Other Side of Jean Edelman” Event

Jaimie McCormick September 8, 2021

The Rowan University Women's Alliance will host “The Other Side of Jean Edelman” on Wednesday September 15. It’ll be a virtual event on Webex to follow COVID-19 health and safety protocols.   Learn...

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