Learn more about the Lassonde Studios, the new home for student innovators and entrepreneurs at the University of Utah. The facility is a student residence, incubator and makerspace.
We saw some amazing student ideas today at the Business Scholars Showcase today. A tampon subscription product won Best Idea. Congrats to all the winners! During the competition, first-year students in the Business Scholars program showcased their innovation team projects they have been working on for months. Each group developed a new invention or business […]
Browse some of the newest images of Lassonde Studios, our new $45 million home for student entrepreneurs and innovators at the University of Utah. All students are welcome to #livecreatelaunch here. Learn more at lassonde.utah.edu/studios.
The IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Intermountain Chapter awarded Lassonde Studios the BEST (Brilliantly Executed Spaces and Thinking) award for interior design in the Learn category recently. The Learn category is open to all education related interior design projects including education administration facilities, K-12 schools and higher education buildings. The judges awarded Lassonde Studios the BEST […]
We’re thrilled to share that Lassonde Studios of the University of Utah’s Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute has been named the overall winner of the SXSWedu Learn X Design awards in the physical category. The award further solidifies Lassonde Studios as arguably the most innovative built learning facility in the world from the past year. One of […]
Make a picture. Tell a story. Sell a product. Sometimes, it takes a near-death experience to realize what you live for – and for Isaac Griffin, that is creating art. His creative works all incorporate a unique sense of movement and storytelling. An avid cyclist, illustrator and art director at AdThing, a student-powered ad agency, […]
A leading publication for startup news and trends, Fast Company featured Lassonde Studios in a new article titled “A $45 Million Experiment to Turn Dorms into Incubators.” Lassonde Studios is a new building where all students on campus can live, create products and launch startups. It opened in August 2016 and has received worldwide attention for […]
Scan the world from Norway to China and you won’t find a new university building much better than Lassonde Studios at the University of Utah, according to Architectural Digest, a premier publication for architecture news and trends. In a new report, the publication identifies Lassonde Studios as one of the nine best new university buildings around the globe. “One […]
The University of Utah was recently ranked as the best college in the country for aspiring entrepreneurs in 2016 by LendEDU, a student loan refinancing website. It ranked the top 50 colleges in the United States for their support for young entrepreneurs. The study focused on all opportunities for students interested in entrepreneurship, not just […]
The Index app, created by University of Utah students, in essence is a virtual business card. It puts all of your contact information — including social media accounts— into one spot. Not only that but it creates a QR code containing all of that information so that can easily be scanned by another Index user […]
Can you really have culture without food, or food without culture? Hossein Dadkhah and Shahrzad Jalili would say they go hand in hand, but many dining experiences may fail to present food within the appropriate cultural context. Dadkhah and Jalili share a passion for travel, along with the desire to provide people with a uniquely […]
