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Riata Center announces 2026 Cowboy100 honorees

The Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship unveiled the OSU-owned-and-led businesses being honored at the 2026 Cowboy100 on March 28.
The orange pylon shaped trophies for the Cowboy100 sit on a table in numerical order, ready for the honorees to come to the stage to claim their prize.
OSU’s entrepreneurship programs receive Princeton Review national rankings

Wed, Nov 30, 2022

Oklahoma State University’s School of Entrepreneurship was recognized as one of the top schools in the nation in the 2023 rankings published by The Princeton Review and featured in the December issue of Entrepreneur magazine.

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Constructing success; Spears senior builds business empire during college career

Mon, Nov 28, 2022

Many OSU students discover their entrepreneurial spirit in class or at a Riata Center event, but it emerged early and instinctively for Elian Trujillo. The senior started a construction business while at OSU, and he's used his time at Spears Business to start an empire.

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Pitch and Poster competition awards students $10,000

Thu, Nov 17, 2022

Oklahoma State University students were awarded more than $10,000 in scholarships while competing in the 2022 Pitch and Poster competition hosted by the Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Nov. 4.

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Entrepreneurship students participate in global presentations

Wed, Nov 02, 2022

For the first time, Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business students are participating in the Technion Multi-Cultural Team Project (TMCTP) during the fall 2022 semester as part of upper-level entrepreneurship courses taught by Craig Watters, associate clinical professor in the School of Entrepreneurship and executive director of the Riata Institute for Global Social Entrepreneurship.

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Casting Cameron

Tue, Sep 20, 2022

Rachel Cameron, a young actress and entrepreneurship student, made her way to Stillwater after filming a movie in Yukon, Oklahoma. The Dallas native spent a month and a half in Oklahoma on the set of “Treasure Lies,” a faith-based movie about a hardworking teenage boy who wins the lottery and faces a crisis of character where Cameron plays the love interest. It was her time spent shooting when she fell in love with the state of Oklahoma and decided to attend OSU.

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Face2Face with Josey Mayes: whose family business is featured on the new A&E series, 'Deep Fried Dynasty'

Tue, Mar 22, 2022

In 1949, Josey Mayes’s great grandfather, Joe Nevins, opened Nevins Concessions at the Texas State Fair with 40 booths selling the classics: cheeseburgers, cotton candy and fried chicken. Today, Mayes and her family still own and run the business and are being featured on a new A&E reality TV series.

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OSU alumnus creates new technology aimed at revolutionizing at-home infusion treatment

Fri, Jan 29, 2021

Mitchell Berenson left corporate medicine in 2008 with the goal of creating strong IV infusion programs in rural hospitals. His company, Infusion Solutions, now works with 40 hospitals in 22 states, and, with the help of OSU’s entrepreneurial program, he’s launched a new product that could revolutionize in-home infusion treatment.

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