Editor’s Note: We invited writer and U humanities student Bailey Shelden to report about how entrepreneurship needs diverse students from arts, English and beyond. Below is what she discovered. What do a new residence building, entrepreneurship, and the humanities have in common? The answer may surprise you. It is hard to miss all the construction projects […]
Editor’s Note: SimpleCitizen won the grand prize and $40,000 at our 2015 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. The statewide competition is held every spring semester. Guest writer and U student Alexander Lewandowski caught up with them to learn more about their history and progress since last year. “If Turbo-Tax can condense mountains of tax law into a few […]
Editor’s Note: What makes the Lassonde Institute one of the best organizations for promoting student success on campus? To find the answer, guest writer and U student Tiffany Parker investigated. Here’s what she discovered. Perhaps you’ve heard that the U is ranked among the best university’s in the country for entrepreneurship, but did you know that […]
Editor’s Note: The author, Alex Ledoux, is a U alum who founded Eco Flower, a company that sells bouquets filled with synthetic flowers made from recycled materials. We invited him to share some of his secrets of success. He chose to write about Facebook advertising. A week after graduating from the University of Utah in the spring […]
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 […]
Stomach Growling? Call Fetch Food. Fetch Food, a Salt Lake City based start-up, offers restaurant food delivery on the cheap. One user on their website commented, “if you haven’t used Fetch Food, you’re doing lunch wrong.” This innovative start up, founded by two students at the University of Utah, utilizes a patented routing algorithm to make […]
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 […]
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
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. […]
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 […]
