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Norm Skalicky is a 1955 UND alumnus and banking entrepreneur from St. Cloud, Minnesota. His gift helped advance entrepreneurial endeavors at UND and throughout the state of North Dakota. |
| The Skalicky Entrepreneur Endowment is intended to encourage and stimulate economic growth through entrepreneurship and private investment. In October of 2004, the Rural Technology Center was renamed as the Norm Skalicky Tech Incubator. |
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James Ray is an aerospace entrepreneur. He has been a long-time friend and supporter of the Center for Innovation Foundation, UND Foundation and UND Aerospace Foundation. His generosity was instrumental in establishing the Entrepreneurship Program at UND's College of Business and Public Administration. Through an endowment, Ray has provided ongoing support for entrepreneurship and one of his gifts to the Center for Innovation was used to create the state-of-the-art conference facility in the Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center. The conference facility is named the James C. Ray Idea Lab. |
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Ray Rude is an entrepreneur origionally from Stanley, North Dakota. He created and patented the Duraflex alumninum diving board. Rude's contribution to the Center for Innovation was used toward the construction of the Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center. The Center is named for Rude's late wife, Ina Mae, who was his greatest supporter in his entrepreneur venture. The Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center was the first North Dakota Center for Excellence. The facility provides office space for startups, wet lab space for scientists and engineers and community space for entrepreneurs. |
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Kurt Mueller is a 1962 UND alumnus. He provides annual gifts to create the Mueller Entrepreneur Intern Program. The program pays up to $1,500 per semester for a student to develop an entrepreneur venture located in the tech incubator. Since 1997, over 60 UND students have been able to participate in entrepreneur internships to launch their ventures. |
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