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Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program Screens 500 entrepreneurs and ideas
BRF’s Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (EAP) reports the completion of a milestone of 500 screens of entrepreneurs and ideas. During a screen, the EAP team of financial analysts sits down with an entrepreneur looking to develop or advance his or her business...
SMART students top winners at Louisiana Region I Science and Engineering Fair
Three students of the Science and Medicine Academic Research Training (SMART) program were the top three winners of the 2018 Louisiana Region I Science and Engineering Fair. Christopher Ferrier, Sunjay Letchuman and Lilly Kamberov placed first, second and third,...
Arthur Thompson named BRF Board of Directors chairman
BRF is pleased to announce that Arthur G. Thompson, Clerk of Council for the City of Shreveport, is the new BRF Board of Directors chairman. Thompson has served on the BRF Board of Directors since 2005, serving as an officer for the past eight consecutive years, as...
DMI offering summer camp tuition assistance through Best Buy Foundation grant
Youths who qualify for financial assistance to attend Digital Media Institute at Intertech’s (DMI) summer camps may benefit from a new tuition assistance program made possible by a Best Buy Foundation grant. Best Buy Foundation, through grants such as the one to DMI,...
ORDA funds five more North Louisiana researchers
Five North Louisiana researchers have been funded a total of $200,000 in the second cycle of the Office for Research Development and Administration’s (ORDA) Seed Funding Program. Awardees are from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM), LSU Health Sciences Center...
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