GCU Today Magazine - November 2017

14 • GCU MAGAZ I NE Canyon Business, Marketing, Finance and Project Management. There also is the Accounting Society and DECA, an international association of students and teachers. Students even can get involved in TEDx GCU, the only student-run TED event in the world, and the New Business Development Center, which helps neighborhood startups get their footing. Want to talk involvement? Xiong is president of IDEA. Finley is interim president of Sports Business. McGuire is the Project Management Club treasurer. Scheer was involved in four startups and 14 projects at the start of the academic year. Woods ran the first TEDx at GCU. And there are places to go to get even more collaboration. CCOB students can interact with their College of Science, Engineering and Technology peers in the Lopes Lab, which has a 3-D printer. Newly opened this fall was the Lazarus Lab, so named because it is in the space that formerly housed GCU’s cadaver lab. The Lazarus Lab brings ideas to life by giving entrepreneurs — both students and GCU graduates — a place to strategize. It should be no surprise that Kelley, Waterman and Ruybalid drop in frequently. “They’ve dedicated that space to be an ecosystem for all entrepreneurs on campus, regardless of whether you’re a business student or not,” Scheer said. “We’ve seen, just in the small time that the Lazarus Lab has been open, that it’s going to be the catalyst for the Colangelo College of Business becoming the next flagship business school in the United States.” Besides Storage Together, the list of CCOB-generated major startups in just the last two-plus years includes Great Pros (the 2015 Canyon Challenge winner under a different name) and Lectric Longboards (see Page 16). All that collaboration means still more biz-synergy, and all that starts with Jerry Colangelo. The museum, and more on the way A 400-person gala in September, featuring an all-star roster of business executives and sports stars, was a celebration of the opening of the museum, but it also was a barometer of the Colangelo Effect on GCU. Not surprisingly, the museum isn’t just filled with mementos of Colangelo’s career. It’s just as much a classroom filled with his wisdom. It’s also not the last major CCOB project. On the horizon is a new classroom building on the east side of campus that will house the Surrounded by friends and GCU basketball players at the gala in his honor, Colangelo holds the framed copy of a full-page advertisement in The Arizona Republic that the University placed to thank him for all that he has done.