Two hundred and ninety students and 78 teams competed in the Business Scholars Innovation Showcase for 2021. This year, teams created videos, and winners were chosen through public, online voting, which concluded recently. Find a complete list of winners below. Each of the teams consisted of up to four first-year students in the Business Scholars program at […]
The last year has been very unusual to say the least. The pandemic hit the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute like everywhere else, and we made the best of it by adapting, moving many activities online, and learning new ways of doing things. Watch highlights and listen to perspectives on the year from our community in […]
Six student startup teams received $5,200 in Get Seeded milestone grants for March. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted on Zoom and broadcast on YouTube for the public. It included the usual […]
The 2021 edition of “Student Innovation at the U” is now available. The annual publication celebrates student innovation and impact at the University of Utah. The theme this year is “How Students are Innovating Through the Pandemic.” Inside you will find stories about students from all parts of campus doing amazing things. Hopefully, you will […]
uAir, a University of Utah student team with an innovative new inhaler that addresses the patient’s need for portability and the physician’s need for accessibility, won the $20,000 grand prize and first place in the 2021 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge today. The statewide business-model competition is managed by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, a division of the […]
Acti-Vest, a team from Juan Diego Catholic High School, won first place and the $10,000 grand prize at the 2021 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (HSUEC) final event today. Acti-Vest presented an idea for a vest that uses ultrasonic sensors to calculate the distance between obstacles and a visually impaired wearer to warn them of […]
“Student Innovation at the U” is an annual publication celebrating student innovation and impact at the University of Utah. A digital version is available at lassonde.utah.edu/studentinnovation2021. This publication is produced by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, an interdisciplinary division of the David Eccles School of Business and the hub for student entrepreneurs and innovators at the […]
Innovation and entrepreneurism is a distinctive characteristic of the University of Utah and of our state. Our students ask questions that are the root of all good ideas: Why not? What if? What would happen if I? And then they work hard to answer those questions and to develop the possibilities that surface. The outcome […]
“Our whole purpose is to help save lives,” said Kindall Palmer, who co-founded Neonatal Rescue in 2016. The organization develops life-saving ventilators and training programs to distribute to developing countries. The motivation behind starting the organization was deeply personal to Palmer. His first child was born with a congenital heart defect and was life-flighted to […]
Nick Witham, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, founded GAIA Technologies with a goal to change lives through better prosthetics. GAIA is doing this as a prosthetics component company that builds sensor arrays to measure muscle shapes. The outcome: More affordable and higher-functioning prosthetic limbs. GAIA’s sensor array technology can be […]
