Amid pandemic, MS Entre grad pivots startup to distribute critical household goods to non-profits
With a company built on the premise of helping customers do good within the community, it’s no surprise that Seattle startup Ridwell jumped into action... Read More
Umphress awarded UW Population Health Initiative grant to help small businesses weather COVID-19 crisis
This week, the University of Washington Population Health Initiative awarded approximately $333,000 in COVID-19 economic recovery research grants to 18 different faculty-led teams. One of those teams... Read More
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
How will the COVID-19 pandemic reshape Seattle? Podcasting professor weighs in
What happens when seemingly unstoppable economic growth meets an irrepressible global pandemic? Seattle is finding out. The hard way. To get a uniquely informed perspective... 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
Foster panel examines economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic
“There’s no such thing as an economic update right now that doesn’t talk about the coronavirus,” offered Chris Mefford (MBA 2002) in his prologue to... Read More
Eastern Airlines, led by Foster alumnus, rescues thousands of Americans stranded abroad by pandemic
Say you had launched a startup international airline, with eight planes running charters and a single commercial route, just a few months before a global... Read More
Foster TMMBA students play lead roles in state and county COVID-19 response
COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s life and livelihood. For two students in the Technology Management MBA Program at the UW Foster School of Business, it has... Read More
From spirits to sanitizer: Foster alumni distillers shift production in response to pandemic
The first thing to go was the hand sanitizer. Before toilet paper became the impossible-to-find commodity, it was the vanishing bottles of Purell from store... Read More
Alaska Airlines, led by Foster alumni, steps up COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the airline industry. And Alaska Airlines has not been immune to its ill effects. The virtual standstill in air travel... Read More