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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
