The Ivory Innovations Hack-a-House is returning for a second year, offering students a chance at $5,000 in prize money for innovations in housing policy, design, and finance. Hack-a-House is a two-day competition fostering innovative ideas to solve Utah's housing affordability problem as the Beehive State continues to grow. The competition brings together the leading local and national voices in housing design, policy, and finance [...]
Three MBA students from the David Eccles School of Business won the Adobe Analytics Challenge, taking home the top prize of $30,000. The three-man Datalyzers team beat 167 teams from 77 schools in the challenge, which grew from 24 participating schools just last year. “Data analytics have become so important for every business, not only for the data science teams but for every person [...]
Editor’s note: Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute talks about a new U of U student startup winning the 2016 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. A student startup from the University of Utah won first place and the $40,000 grand prize at the annual Utah Entrepreneur Challenge tonight for their design of a new endotracheal tube that makes it easier for medical professionals to perform endotracheal intubation, a risky procedure [...]