Student Innovation at the U | 2019 Report | University of Utah

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PreOv is Changing the (Fertility) Game

The team behind PreOv, a student startup developing fertility solutions for women, is comprised of studious, family-driven, career-oriented women ...

Cards & Books for Special Occasions

“What are you giving your dad for Father’s Day?” asked Miles Petty, an MBA student at the University of Utah, to an unsuspecting audience ...

Helping People Sit Up

As music performance majors, students often face the question: What are you going to do with that? ...

Savor while Saving

Food is a central part of the college experience, and really, the life experience ...

Intra-Abdominal Pressure

The pelvic floor is made up of muscles that support organs like the bladder and uterus ...

Making Research More Inclusive

The University of Utah has various ways for students to get involved in the Tier-1 research conducted all over campus ...

Saving Water & Energy

Konstantinos Oikonomou has always been passionate about promoting environmental consciousness ...

Modern Dance & Social Justice

Aileen Norris is a senior at the University of Utah double majoring in English and modern dance ...

The Sinners We Are

Alexis Rausch, a fine arts student at the University of Utah, is bringing elements of psychology into her art in order to emphasize the beauty that can be found in ugly concepts ...

Jazz at the Cafe

In fall 2019, the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and the School of Music launched Jazz at the Cafe Lassonde to bring live music to Lassonde Studios ...

A Futuristic Privacy Garment

Anyone who has squeezed into a crowded airplane knows that travel can be a serious invasion of privacy ...

Customizable Bags

Kristen Kessler and Isabel Kinikini are unashamed to be themselves. Kessler and Kinikini channeled this ideology into entrepreneurship ...

Accessible Social Work

When Torle Nenbee was 11 years old, her family came to Utah as refugees. “I started school in the sixth grade,” she said ...

From Lab to Park Bench

When Andreana Holowatyj was a doctoral student in Detroit, she encountered a patient in the clinic diagnosed with cancer ...

The Tent Hammock

After a frustrating and nearly treeless camping trip to Goblin Valley in 2016, University of Utah students ...

Yellowstone Forever

This year, a group of students studying multi-disciplinary design worked with Yellowstone Forever, the nonprofit arm of Yellowstone National Park ...

Making Breastfeeding More Comfortable

Started by University of Utah MBA student Nana Ewusi-Emmim two years ago, NipaYe is a breastfeeding-help company ...

Making Diagnoses Simpler

To diagnose patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), an inflammatory disease that disrupts the esophagus, current medical knowledge requires anesthesia and an endoscopy ...

Fighting Against Overdose

Utah continues to be among the top 20 states in the country that suffers from high levels of opioid overdose ...

Video-Game Development

Students in the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts Engineering (EAE) program work tirelessly to produce games, art and designs ...

High-Speed Data Transfer

Eiger Peak is a team of electrical engineering undergraduate seniors working to create a phase-lock loop for their senior project ...

Utah Student Robotics

Utah Student Robotics is building a robot for NASA’s yearly robot mining competition ...

Environmentally Friendly Refuge

The University of Utah campus and community puts environmental impact and sustainability in high importance ...

Hydroponic Gardening

Dylan Wootton, a senior biomedical engineering student at the University of Utah, is the project manager for the Hydroponic Team at Lassonde Studios ...

Thirst Drinks Now on Campus

An entrepreneur from an early age, University of Utah senior Ethan Cisneros has capitalized on yet another opportunity ...

Battling Food Insecurity

Connor Keller, a senior majoring in political science, noticed his peers struggling with food insecurity ...

Crepes with Culture

University of Utah students Daniel Damiani and Felipe Perrotti did not plan to make crepes when they first got the idea to start a food truck ...

From Court to Class in Vietnam

Though the opportunity to become a student-athlete is often taken for granted in the United States, less privileged countries’ youth dream of this lifestyle ...