Entrepreneur Fest aims to open doors for students
They say luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. If that’s the case, then the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship wants to make October your... Read More
West Coast Research Symposium straddles line between stealth mode research and open discovery
In between all the data-gathering and calculations, faculty attending the West Coast Research Symposium at the University of Washington must have found some time to... Read More
Rock & Roller
What do healthcare innovation and roller derby have in common? Molly Moore If you’ve driven the streets of Seattle, browsed an Alaska Airlines magazine or... Read More
U.S. News ranks Foster’s undergraduate program #23 of 488 Best Colleges
The undergraduate business program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business ranked in the elite top five percent of programs nationwide—#23 of 488 schools and #13... Read More
Meet the student-led startups in the 2016 Jones + Foster Accelerator
Way back in 1983 the Harvard Business School succinctly defined entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources….” This still rings true today,... Read More
Measuring success with Ben Casnocha
How does Ben Casnocha measure success? The renowned author and tech entrepreneur from San Francisco was in Seattle on Friday, July 15 and made a... Read More
UW Business Plan Competition makes new ventures a reality
Four student teams take their turns pitching to a panel of seven distinguished Seattle entrepreneurs and an audience of attentive guests. They come with ideas... Read More
Crustacean-shell plastic might save the planet
Plastic made from crustacean shells sits atop a pan of dirt and growing plants. In front of the prototype display, four University of Washington students... Read More
Recruiting with a startup twist
The UW Startup Job Fair gets underway with tables labeled with 32 company names you’ve probably never heard of: FlyHomes, AnswerDash, Saltbox. But that’s the... Read More
New Health Innovation Challenge launches
Eighteen teams of excited students clustered together in the University of Washington’s Dempsey Hall. The students put up posters and perfectly curated prototype displays as... Read More