Governor’s Cup

Dhu Thompson of Delta Plastics/Revolution Bags is back as title sponsor of the Donald W. Reynolds Arkansas Governor’s Cup collegiate business-plan competition. 2020 has been a big year for the Governor’s Cup. Not only does it mark the event’s 20th…

A look back at the history of the state’s premier business-plan competition For 20 years, the Arkansas Governor’s Cup has been challenging college students throughout the state to think creatively as they develop their business ideas in a high-stakes competition.…

by Dr. Kenneth Olree The 1965 Nobel laureate in physics, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture in 1959 entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” In this lecture, he described a new world of physics, a world in which individual atoms…

By Lonnie L. Jackson, Ph.D. Have you watched an episode of Shark Tank on television or something similar and wondered how the person thought of that particular idea? Or wondered why you didn’t think of that idea? Often, it seems…

I first met Misti and Will Staley last summer during the kickoff weekend of the Delta I-Fund accelerator, a program supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in Arkansas and across the Mississippi Delta region. Something about this young couple from Helena – serious,…

by Erick PC Chang Since starting in 2008 as a co-faculty advisor who got finalist teams in both the undergraduate and graduate category, I see the Governor’s Cup as an ideal vehicle to make students aware about their prospects to…

The semi-finalists and the finalists for the 2019 Delta Plastics Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition have been announced. The semi-finalists and finalists include 17 teams and roughly 80 students from universities across Arkansas. On March 28-29, these teams…

by Julia Trupp When the UA Little Rock sends students to conferences and competitions, they don’t come to play. They come to represent their school pride, talent, hard work and determination. And they do it well. And that’s exactly what…

June 2018 Issue Award-winning graduate students invade the medical field with innovations by Julia Trupp hree University of Arkansas medical students came to conquer and secured record-breaking winnings at various business plan competitions this year with their medical device company…

The 2018 Governor’s Cup, presented by Delta Plastics, was held Wednesday, at the Wally Allen Ballroom in Little Rock. The premier statewide business plan competition for college students, which is managed by Arkansas Capital Corporation, was emceed by AEDC Director…