The Great Outdoors Is Calling Utah Entrepreneurs
Grow Utah, in partnership with Zions Bank, will host the Concept to Company Outdoor Recreation contest to award the best local outdoor recreation innovators with $40,000 in cash and support services....
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USTAR Chemical Biologist is Developing Tactics to Outsmart Diabetes
For patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), the need to endure multiple, uncomfortable insulin injections daily, and to be ever vigilant of their blood sugar, is bad enough. Perhaps worse, is that the...
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U of U Ranks Among Top 100 Universities Granted Patents in 2013
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) have announced the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2013. The list, based on...
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Boosting Solar Cell Efficiency
University of Utah electrical engineers have designed a thin layer made of a transparent plastic or glass that sorts and concentrates sunlight to boost the overall efficiency of solar cells by up to 50...
View ArticleEducation and Auto Technologies Top Out at Southern Utah Crowdpitch
For entrepreneurs competing in Grow Utah’s Concept to Company contests, the culminating Crowdpitch event in which entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to the audience can mean big bucks and in-kind services...
View ArticleUtah Game Wars Begin
Home to digital media and gaming giants like Adobe, Electronic Arts, Disney Interactive and Smart Bomb Interactive, Utah has rapidly become known for its vibrant digital media and entertainment...
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NIH expands program to crack medical mysteries
By Kelly Servick An effort at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to diagnose mysterious diseases is undergoing a major expansion. Representatives of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP),...
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Meet a USTAR Investigator: Shelley Minteer
From a young age, Utah Science Technology and Research initiative’s (USTAR) professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah (U of U), Shelley...
View ArticleBusinessweek Report: ‘University of Utah’s New Dorm Mimics Google Headquarters’
Bloomberg Compares Lassonde Studios to Cutting-Edge Facilities in San Francisco and New York that ‘Blur Life and Work’ The Lassonde Studios – a new facility being built on the University of Utah campus...
View ArticleNSF Grant to Aid Uintah Basin Spin-Out in Commercializing Mercury Instrument
It’s no surprise that mercury, a neurotoxin, can have adverse effects on human health, and a Utah State University researcher is leading a new commercialization that will improve tracking and...
View ArticleUtah positioned to become leader in cancer therapeutics industry
Cancer therapeutics and drug discovery are vital areas of research and are constantly evolving as we seek to find new methods to cure the disease and develop new treatment options. With its world-class...
View ArticleBrothers’ Passion for Entrepreneurism Leads to New Medical Device
Christopher and Andrew Pagels aren’t your average college students. Not only are the brothers immersed in the demanding bio engineering program at the University of Utah, they have also started a...
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USTAR Confluence: Where Research Meets Commercialization
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View ArticleUSTAR Investigator Receives NSF CAREER Award
Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative researcher Miriah Myer has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her proposal, “Design Decision Patterns for Visualizing...
View ArticleSt. George Innovators win R&D grant for medical device
Witting Innovations, a St. George based mechanical and bio-engineering design firm, has recently been awarded a $150,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to work on a...
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Meet a USTAR Investigator: Chuck Alan Dorval
Chuck Dorval always wanted to be a pilot. But when he failed a vision test at 20 years old, he had to pick a new career path. A student of electrical engineering at the time, he switched to biomedical...
View ArticleUSTAR G2M Program helps mobile app developers dial in on their products
Two Utah Valley companies, LionHeart and Skeduna, have received funds from the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative’s (USTAR) Go to Market (G2M) Program, which helps Utah’s high potential...
View ArticleLeonardo After Hours: Is Your Food Killing You – Navigating a Full Crop of...
With so many diets, recommendations on how to eat, what we eat, how and where food is grown and nutrition fads, it’s hard to distinguish between what is news, and what is a fad. On September 23, The...
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Leo After Hours: Is Your Food Killing You
Is Your Food Killing You: Navigating a Full Crop of What Food is Healthy, Toxic and Everything in Between features a dialogue between experts in various fields of nutrition, representatives from the...
View ArticleFive New members Appointed to USTAR Governing Authority
The Utah Science and Technology Research initiative has welcomed five new members to its Governing Authority. Rich Lunsford, Derek Miller, Susan Opp and Florian Solzbacher have begun serving their...
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