USTAR Researcher Shedding New Light on Solar Power
As the world grapples with the ever-changing dynamics of energy use and production, a researcher at the University of Utah is pioneering a new frontier in solar energy called Diffractive Spectrum...
View ArticleMPO Summit: Helping Medtech Manufacturing Move Mountains
Medical Product Outsourcing will be hosting their two-day summit June 4-6 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The summit will provide medical device professionals with top-level learning and networking...
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Utah Leading the Nation in Innovative Company Creation
According to the Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index, Utah ranks number one in the nation for its technology concentration and dynamism. Along with the number one ranking, Utah has...
View ArticleConcept to Company Finalists set to compete in CrowdPitch
The Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative and Grow Utah Ventures are pleased to announce the eight finalists in the latest Southern Utah Concept to Company Contest. The finalists were...
View ArticleZero to Startup: Startup Weekend Salt Lake City
Startup Weekend Salt Lake City put entrepreneurs through a rigorous and engaging boot camp with industry experts and an innovative atmosphere to get a crash course on product development and...
View ArticleUniversity of Utah Engineer Striving for True ‘Innovation’
Manoranjan “Mano” Misra is one of the most recent University of Utah professors hired with support from USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative, a program that brings top talent to...
View ArticleUSTAR East: Powering Utah’s Energy Future
Utah’s Uintah Basin is one of the nation’s most promising energy regions, containing not only abundant supplies of conventional oil and gas, but a large potential for unconventional resources such as...
View ArticleInnovation Leads to a Vision for the Future
An estimated six million Americans and 37,000 Utahans have a severe form of visual disability or impairment. These visual impairments prove to be extremely challenging to those who are afflicted....
View ArticleInvesting in a Bright and Innovative Future
Sixteen of Utah’s most promising and innovative technologies have recently been awarded a $40,000 Technology Commercialization and Innovation Program (TCIP) grant through the Governor’s Office of...
View Article2013 Utah Game Wars – Entrepreneurs Earn High Scores
Utah’s digital media pipeline is helping propel new game design and development through contests like the 2013 Utah Game Wars. Up-and-coming entrepreneurs, designers and engineers gathered at the...
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Utah Home to Little-Big Thinkers
Across the world, researchers are working on big ideas that are incredibly small, and Utah is home to some of the foremost little-big thinkers. Tucked away in the 208,000 square foot USTAR James L....
View ArticleSTORM: Research that Is Out of this World
Technology developed in Utah is set to turn the state into mission control for global weather prediction. This technology will aid first-responders, government officials, and those in the path of...
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Leonardo After Hours: The InventriXXes: Women Scientists Who’ve Changed the...
When it comes to the topic of women in science, Marie Curie is one of the most renowned and well-known role models. Curie, who discovered two elements, became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in...
View ArticleUtah’s SSAC: Celebrating Five Years of Success
As the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative’s SBIR-STTR Assistance Center, observes their fifth anniversary, they are celebrating the winning of nearly $7 million in federal grants and...
View ArticleGo-to-Market Grant Helps Utah Company Fill the Gap
Anyone who has hired an outsourced developer to complete a software or engineering project knows how rare it is to see these projects delivered on-time and on-budget. However, a Utah based startup...
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USU SYNTHETIC SPIDER SILK LAB AWARDED $1.15M IN NAVY, NSF GRANTS
LOGAN – Spiders weave amazing creations from self-made materials human engineers envy. Witness a delicate web covered in rain droplets. How does the arachnid build a structure that’s simultaneously...
View ArticleDixie’s Incubator: Entrepreneurial Seeds Are Beginning to Bud
Southern Utah’s business incubator is helping to grow the state’s knowledge-economy with two innovative St. George technology companies. InfoSiftr and Xtiri will soon be graduating from the SEED...
View ArticleU of U New Graduate Program: Innovating Utah’s Energy
Starting this fall, a new University of Utah graduate program is poised to begin producing leaders for the petroleum engineering industry. Students in the program will have one of the world’s most...
View ArticleWeber State University: Training the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
Utah is often cited as one of the best in the nation for business, careers, the creation of new jobs and innovative businesses. What is behind all of these sterling rankings? The state’s entrepreneurs....
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SBIR-STTR Workshop: Helping Entrepreneurs Access Innovative Funding
Helping innovators and entrepreneurs advance their research and development is nothing new for the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative’s (USTAR) SBIR-STTR Assistance Center (SSAC). Now in...
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