Browse our many announcements for news and updates about our many programs related to entrepreneurship, innovation and business at the University of Utah.
Thousands of Utah middle school students, ages 9-14, are competing in Utah FIRST LEGO League tournaments across the state in January, 2015. Students participate in the program by building robots and inventing new ideas to explore the classroom of the future in this year’s theme, World Class. Teams worked all fall to prepare LEGO robots […]
Check us out on LinkedIn! We now have a company page in addition to our private group. Find it at www.linkedin.com/company/lassonde-entrepreneur-institute. Want to see our other social media profiles? Find them here: www.lassonde.utah.edu/subscribe.
Chad Mann, a recent graduate of the University of Utah and president of MannMade Engineering, led his team into the top-4 of the 2014 Utah Tech Week Hackathon this fall. In just a matter of hours, Mann and his team designed an “internet of things” device to remotely track one’s health. “It was nothing short […]
More than 240 students from universities across the state participated in four new Innovation Tournaments at the University of Utah this fall. Students joined teams to pitch ideas and voted on what ideas should get the $2,500 in cash prizes. The events were hosted by the Utah Entrepreneur Series, a student-run division of the Lassonde Entrepreneur […]
The Campus Founders Fund is a newly created venture fund run for students, by students. The investment team consists of entrepreneurial-minded college students across Utah, studying everything from biomedical engineering to global supply-chain management. With a $500,000 investment fund, the group’s mission is to provide pre-seed funding and top-level mentoring to the best student entrepreneurs […]
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah is pleased to announce Frank Davis, founder of Food for Health International, Activz Whole-Food Nutrition and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, will be a guest speaker Thursday, Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (room LL130) at […]
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah is pleased to announce Jonathan Johnson III, chairman of the board at Overstock.com and lifetime advocate for entrepreneurs, will be a guest speaker Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (room LL130) on the University of Utah campus. […]
The construction webcam for the Lassonde Studios is now live. Log on to check our progress. The building opens in fall 2016, so we still have a long way to go. View webcam
The Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation at the David Eccles Business School along with the Center for Medical Innovation and Entertainment and Media Arts Engineering School at the University of Utah have come together to form the Games4Health Challenges that run the course for the academic year. The main objective of these challenges is […]
An easy, fun, quick pitch is the only thing standing between you and $500. How? Through Innovation Tournaments, the newest addition to the Utah Entrepreneur Series. Innovation tournaments are the launch pad for your great idea. How does it work? Students gather and pitch their innovative problem-solving idea to their peers. Live audience voting and […]
