The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute awarded the 2023-24 Community Impact Award to the Davis Catalyst Center. This annual award is sponsored by the Entrepreneur Association and was awarded at the 2024 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (HSUEC). The Catalyst Center brings Davis School District students together with local business and industry mentors. The students are immersed […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute awarded the Love Every Minute of Your Life — Kylie B. Park Artist Award to Alon Meir for the 2023-24 academic year. “It is an honor to work with students who are dedicated to supporting the creative vision of the Lassonde community,” said Anne Bastein, program director at the Lassonde Entrepreneur […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute announced the new Three S Lassonde Student Leadership Award to celebrate student leaders and selected the first recipient recently. The award was created through the vision and generosity of Jack Brittain, a Lassonde faculty chair and former dean of the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. He established the […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute awarded the inaugural Community Impact Award to American Fork High School teacher Calvin Barnum. This annual award is sponsored by the Entrepreneur Association and was awarded for the first time at the 2023 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (HSUEC). Barnum teaches marketing and entrepreneurship and is the DECA advisor at American […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute’s Lassonde Studios won the Spaces & Places Award at the 2022 Silicon Slopes Hall of Fame & Awards at the Grand America Hotel earlier this month. The event brought together, 1,300 leaders, entrepreneurs, and guests. Launched in 1999, the awards identify and applaud the breakthrough leaders and companies who have contributed […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute awarded the Love Every Minute of Your Life — Kylie B. Park Artist Award to Sydney Ostendorf and Rachel Buzarde for the 2022-23 academic year. “We are encouraged and inspired by the ways our students support the creative vision of the Lassonde community,” said Anne Bastein, program director at the Lassonde […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute was announced as a finalist for the 2022 Silicon Slopes Hall of Fame & Awards recently. Launched in 1999, the awards identify and applaud the breakthrough leaders and companies who have contributed to the ongoing and growing success of Utah and Silicon Slopes. The Lassonde Institute was named a finalist for […]
A Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute alumni Josh Eckman recently received an Ernst & Young’s 2022 Entrepreneur of The Year award for its Mountain West region. Eckman is a co-founder and CEO of Carterra, a medical device company founded on University of Utah technology that helped develop COVID-19 therapies. We took the opportunity to catch up with […]
Today, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) – the world’s largest business education network – recognized the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah among 25 business schools as highlights of its Innovations That Inspire member challenge. The Eccles School was recognized for its unique Master of Business […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, an interdisciplinary division of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, was recognized among 12 universities for their outstanding entrepreneur programs at the 2018 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. Now in its twenty-second year, the GCEC Conference was attended by more than […]
