Navillum is a University of Utah startup that is improving the way that quantum nanocrystals are produced. Nanocrystals are a type of semiconductor that have many uses, including television screens, computer displays, solar panels and lighting. Learn more about the company at www.navillum.com.
Category: Startups
Learn about some of the amazing student startup companies at the University of Utah. Students from all departments are inventing new products and starting businesses.
U students win People’s Choice Award in clean tech finals
Navillum, a team of three M.B.A. students and three researchers from the University of Utah, won the People’s Choice Award at the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition, which concluded June 13 with an awards ceremony at the White House. About 300 teams from across the country competed in the inaugural competition sponsored by the […]
MBA students win $100,000 with quantum dot technology
Quantum dots might be the next big thing in the electronic industry. Scientists are just starting to understand the uses for these manmade, semiconductor nanocrystals. Quantum dots can emit a wider range of light with less energy than existing materials, so many believe they will be used in future generations of solar panels, televisions, cellphones […]
CNN Money features startup Xandem
CNN Money featured University of Utah startup Xandem recently, highlighting the company’s motion-detection technology that “sees through walls.” The company is the product of former doctoral student Joey Wilson and professor Neal Patwari, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. CNN wrote: “Xandem’s secret sauce is its use of radio waves, which […]
Students eliminate stovetop fires, claim $40,000 at UEC
The shrill warning of a smoke alarm has always signaled danger — yet a new device detects the alarm and shuts off power to the stove, successfully eliminating a fire threat. That invention and the student team behind it, called Active Alarm, earned the grand prize and $40,000 in this year’s Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (UEC). […]
Monitus Medical: Detecting Leaks and Perforations
After graduating with an MBA from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, Ryan Murri didn’t get one job offer – he got three. He credits his success to the real-world experience he gained through the Pierre and Claudette Lassonde New Venture Development program. In the New Venture Development program, which […]
University of Utah Research Leads to Commercialization of “Smart Feeding Tube”
Feeding tubes are not as harmless as they seem. Every year in the U.S. over 40,000 feeding tubes are mistakenly placed into a patient’s lungs, which results in an estimated 6,000 deaths. But a University of Utah startup company, Veritract Inc., hopes to end these risks by making the placement of feeding tubes much safer […]
Short Solutions Climbs through Student Competitions
University of Utah student Jordan Nicholls earned a master’s degree in engineering in May 2010 — but he was absent on graduation day. Rather than don the ceremonial cap and gown, Nicholls participated in a national business plan competition with three of his fellow engineering students. Their success at the Moot Corp business plan competition […]
You Can’t Hide Your Lyin’ Eyes
Shifty eyes long have been thought to signify a person’s problem telling the truth. Now a group of University of Utah researchers are taking that old adage to a new level. Educational psychologists John Kircher, Doug Hacker, Anne Cook, Dan Woltz and David Raskin are using eye-tracking technology to pioneer a promising alternative to the […]
U of U Business Plan Team Accepted into World’s Largest and Richest Business Plan Competition
A team from the Lassonde New Venture Development Center at the University of Utah was chosen from 339 business plan teams from around the world to compete in this year’s Rice Business Plan Competition. Charity Williams, graduating in May with juris doctorate; Sean Mills, graduating with an MBA and Justin Baker, a second-year bioengineering Ph.D. […]
