Husky Hackathon sparks innovative solutions to challenges of the post-COVID world
Of the many awful symptoms of COVID-19, uncertainty may be the most pernicious. How will we live until effective therapies or vaccines are developed to... Read More
Student Spotlight: Inside the Husky AI Hackathon
Shobhit Gupta (MBA ’20) and Jessica Hatz (MBA ’21) of the Foster School of Business Technology Club authored the following guest blog. The pair, alongside... Read More
Foster management professor is developing a novel test for COVID-19 on the side
There is still much we don’t fully know about the enigmatic coronavirus that has wrought havoc around the world. How contagious is it? How deadly?... Read More
Sweet 16 Selected in All-Virtual Dempsey Startup Competition
Thirty student teams cast a spell over the judges at this year’s all-virtual Investment Round of the 2020 Dempsey Startup Competition. Each team performed digital... Read More
Top 30 Teams Advance in All-Virtual Dempsey Startup Competition
Thirty student teams will showcase creativity, ingenuity, and business and digital savvy at this year’s all-virtual Investment Round of the Dempsey Startup Competition. The 23rd... Read More
#Pledge1200 campaign urges people to spend stimulus dollars at local small business
On March 27, President Trump signed an historic $2 trillion stimulus plan to help Americans and American businesses weather the economic devastation wrought by the... Read More
Student Teams Engage in Virtual Environmental Innovation Challenge
Student teams redefined the term “showcase” at the all-virtual 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC). The event, hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for... Read More
Joe Chocolate fans follow founders’ lead, send ‘bits of buzz’ to sustain exhausted healthcare workers
As the world began adapting to extreme new norms of social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Chocolate Co. owners Sam Tanner (BA 2016) and... Read More
Foster alum launches emergency market platform to move critical medical supplies and materials nationwide
Across the United States, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed an acute lack of preparedness for a fast-growing global pandemic, with critical medical supplies running dangerously... Read More
Lavin Program entrepreneur retools wearable device to help fight spread of COVID-19
Stop touching your face! That familiar admonition was once aimed almost exclusively at grubby-handed kids. Now it has become a dead-serious public health message for... Read More