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1. Technology

Affordable Solutions for African Farmers

Isaac Sesi, the founder of Sesi Technologies, is one of this year’s founders in the Master of Business Creation program and is currently based in Ghana. ...

A New Anti-Hacking Solution

Hayley Tankersley and Braxton Chappell are both electrical engineering majors at the University of Utah whose senior project is developing a new type of anti-hacking software. ...

Saving Bridges from Earthquakes

Over 1,000 earthquakes occur each year in and around Utah, and Ijan Dangol wanted to make that statistic less intimidating for Utah’s infrastructure. While finishing his Ph.D. in civil engineering at the University of Utah ...

2. Products

Small-Batch, Hand-Crafted CBD Products

A medicinal chemical in hemp that does not cause a high, CBD (or cannabidiol) has recently gained traction after its nationwide legalization in 2018 with many companies emerging into the market. ...

Heirloom-Quality Leather Products

Affordable, quality leather products can be extremely hard to come by, but University of Utah student and business administration major Giovanni Bastone has a solution. ...

Personal Care Powered by Girls

In a world where female hair and personal-care products focus on looks rather than functionality and accomplishment, University of Utah business student Sadie Bowler saw a need for a change. ...

Saving the Planet One Drop at a Time

University of Utah engineering students Ahmed Elnashar, Mahmoud Elmehlawy, and Victor Leao-David wanted to create a safer, greener, and more efficient chemical industry. ...

Advancing Nuclear Research

University of Utah nuclear engineering Ph.D. candidate Codey Olsen is a passionate engineer, in it for the science and advancement of his field. ...

3. Outdoors

Tent for You and Your Dog

Just like many others, Scott King, a master of business analytics student at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, got a puppy (Ollie) to join his family during the 2020 pandemic. ...

4. Design

Changing E-Bikes Forever

While in the University of Utah’s Multi-Disciplinary program in the College of Architecture + Planning, Dakota Janes created OnePlug as part of his senior design project. It is a universal magnetic e-bike charging plug ...

The Indigenous Womxnhood Series

Kassie John is a senior at the University of Utah studying platform design through the Multi-Disciplinary Design Program under the College of Architecture + Planning. ...

5. Community

Providing Water to the Navajo Reservation

Master of social work students at the University of Utah, Alannah Clay, Jessie Welch-Stockton, and Mimi Landeros are the voices of those who don’t have one. After finding out about the Navajo Tribe Reservation water crisis, they decided to help. ...

Mental-Health Care for Minority Communities

Laura Tiburcio-Santos is tackling an under-valued problem in underrepresented communities: mental-health. After immigrating to the United States in 2013, Tiburcio-Santos faced her own mental-health crisis as a result of culture shock and assimilation pressures. ...

6. Health

Robotic Surgery Using MRI

There has long been interest in using magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, to guide less-invasive medical procedures. M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Lorne Hofstetter has developed an electric-motor design ...

Progressing Prosthesis

Sarah Hood, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at the U, has found passion in engineering at the intersection of humans and technology. Through her research, she has helped develop a novel robotic-leg prosthesis ...

Changing the Culture

Being a nurse is hard. Being a nurse of color can be even harder, according to Minerva Martinez-Lopez, a nursing Ph.D. student and a nurse at the University of Utah. To help, she developed an Anti-Racist Training module ...

An Ultra-Portable Asthma Inhaler

If you’re not a person with asthma, you probably don’t think very often about inhalers. If you use one, however, you understand the unseen annoyances. Most importantly, you’ve probably dealt with a crucial choice ...

7. Arts

Spreading the Joy of Dance

For founder Alyssa Bertelsen, Rise Up School of Dance is so much more than a business. “Rise Up started just out of my own story growing up; I wasn’t able to afford ballet classes and was given a scholarship” ...

Bringing Social Awareness to Theater

While pursuing a degree in theater, Francesca Hsieh left a continuing impact at the University of Utah by creating BIPOC Artists for Awareness, a program that continues to grow and improve the community even after her graduation. ...

The Buffalo Soldiers

Reilly Jensen is an archaeologist, researcher, and illustrator, who is currently studying in the Community-Based Arts Education Graduate Program at the University of Utah. ...

Healing Through Art Installation

When University of Utah ceramics student Griffin Hale sought to make an installation at Huntsman Cancer Institute, he embarked on a journey with unforeseen impact. ...

8. Apps

Preventing Skin Cancer

Kristina Schiffman is a current student at the University of Utah, working toward degrees in biomedical engineering and business administration. ...

Helping You Find Your Next Tattoo

The tattoo industry hasn’t changed much since its inception, but startup Tatfinder is looking to change that. Kaeden Warnberg-Lemm describes their app as a decision-based optimization algorithm ...

An Empathetic Productivity App

Jared Collett, an entrepreneurship major at the University of Utah, wants to help students like himself make goals, get things done, and de-stress with the Mura app, a productivity wellness planner. ...

Resuscitech Meets with Tim Cook

Founders in the Master of Business Creation (MBC) program at the David Eccles School of Business had the meeting of a lifetime during the Silicon Slopes Summit in Salt Lake City in 2021. ...

9. Fashion

Confidence Through Custom Clothing

Born into a family of artists, Daisy Hall has always had an inherent passion for creativity. This, coupled with her love for fashion and unique expression, led freshman to begin creating her own individualized clothing ...

Pajamas for the Bedroom to Boardroom

When sister-duo Sarah Kate Price and Anna Connolly first became members of the Master of Business Creation (MBC) program, they hoped they were on the path to become a “pajampire.” ...

Balmont Streetwear

Laurbong Gai, a passionate entrepreneur and fashion designer hailing from Salt Lake City, has big dreams. He is a marketing student at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and the founder of Balmont, ...

10. Software

Marketplace for Entertainment Vendors

Joel Zae, a founder in the Master of Business Creation program at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, is turning his balloon side-hustle into a full-time party planning business. ...

Empowering Hoteliers with Data Science

Co-founders Viral Shah and Dhaval Chokshi are empowering hoteliers with their startup HelloGM, which provides a single interface to see data from disparate property management systems easily compiled, analyzed, and utilized. ...

Making NFTs More Accessible

NFT, short for non-fungible token, has become an elusive buzzword in the midst of the rising world of the metaverse, blockchain, and all things considered “web3.” Tim Nielsen and his company Cloutchain want to make NFTs accessible for everyone ...

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