In the hustle to get where you’re going, the last thing you want is for someone to steal your bike. Yet, despite all of the sturdy bike locks out there, this is a major problem across college campuses and world wide. So James Haskell, U marketing student and co-founder of Bambú, decided to take a […]
Author: Lassonde Staff
Tive: Improving Free Wi-Fi for Businesses and Customers
We’ve all been there — checking a text, settling a debate by looking up which actor was in that one movie, or mindlessly scrolling through Instagram — and you get that pop up: “Select a Wi-Fi Network.” Let the eye roll commence. Of course you want to connect with Wi-Fi! Your data is at stake, but sadly, […]
Get Healthy with New StepPets App
A team of recent U grads want to help you get healthy and love doing it. Through their company, Random Breakfast, they just launched their first app, StepPets. Now available on iTunes, the app “healthifies” games by using your real-life steps to create the levels in the game. The more you walk the more you unlock. “We […]
Themed Floors at Lassonde Studios
Have you heard the residential floors at the Lassonde Studios will have themes? Want to learn more? Then pull up a chair, we have have some stuff to talk about. The one-of-a-kind building will have four residential floors above the Garage on the first floor. Each will have a unique theme, catering to one of […]
New Lassonde Studios Floor Plans
Want a closer look inside the Lassonde Studios? Well, you’ve come to the right place. We have new 3-D floor plans of each level. One of the renderings (below) shows the Garage, which will be the first floor of the Lassonde Studios. This floor is open to all students on campus. All you need is a […]
VIDEO: New Drone Video of Lassonde Studios
Here’s our latest drone footage from above the Lassonde Studios. We are now accepting applications to live here starting fall 2016. Apply online at lassonde.utah.edu/studios
Xandem Reinventing Home Security
At the time a Ph.D. student at the U, Joey Wilson remembers Dr. Neal Patwari present on an experiment he had done in the at-the-time unfinished Warnock Engineering Building in 2007. “He was showing how he’d used wireless devices only outside of a room to show where a person was inside the room,” Wilson said. […]
University of Utah No. 17 for Entrepreneurship
The University of Utah continues to lead in entrepreneurship education. The David Eccles School of Business and its Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute jumped to No. 17 for graduate and No. 24 for undergraduate entrepreneur programs in the new rankings announced today by the Princeton Review. Last year, the U ranked No. 23 for graduate programs. The […]
Bespoke Suits for a Cause
Trapper Roderick is more than just a haberdasher, student entrepreneur and (we think) the best-dressed man on campus. The University of Utah student is also proving to be a social entrepreneur as he enters a new partnership with the YWCA Utah. All are invited to a related event and celebration on Nov. 12 to learn about his company, True […]
Lassonde Studios on the Map!
The Lassonde Studios is putting us on the map! Yes, we’re getting some international attention for the groundbreaking facility. But now we’re also on the University of Utah campus map. Take a look: bit.ly/1jS12N9. The physical address is 1701 Student Life Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. That’s where you’ll be forwarding your mail if you’ve one of the […]