Alaska Airlines takes the Environmental Innovation Challenge to new heights
If you’ve taken an Alaska Airlines flight recently, you may have noticed some changes on board—in-flight recycling, drinks served in InCycle Cups, 100% recycled paper... Read More
Environmental Innovation Challenge receives $150,000 Wells Fargo Clean Technology and Innovation Grant
Seattle, WA—December 18, 2014 The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship at the Foster School of Business has received a $150,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Clean... Read More
InTheWorks: minimizing motor emissions
“I didn’t really expect to start my own business,” says Todd Hansen, looking back to his time as an undergraduate studying biochemistry at the University... Read More
Innovation takes flight as Alaska Airlines sponsors environmental entrepreneurship competition at University of Washington
Today, the University of Washington Foster School of Business announced Alaska Airlines as the naming sponsor of its annual Environmental Innovation Challenge. In the Environmental... Read More
$27,500 Awarded to Entrepreneurial Student Innovators
The annual UW Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC), now in its sixth year, challenges interdisciplinary student teams to define an environmental problem, develop a solution, produce... Read More
The 2014 UW EIC challenges student innovators to think like entrepreneurs
The U.S. Department of Energy recently held its fifth Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit—an annual event that brings together academics, entrepreneurs, innovators, and... Read More
$22,500 awarded to environmental/cleantech innovators
On April 4, twenty student teams from colleges and universities throughout the Pacific Northwest pitched their innovations at the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge. Now in... Read More
The paradox of reduce-reuse-recycle
Guest post by Daniel Schwartz, Chair, UW Department of Chemical Engineering When I think Cleantech, my mind goes straight to the triangular logo on my... Read More
About the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
Student innovators have the potential to solve some of our world’s most pressing environmental crises. But in order to bring about change, these students need... Read More
Challenges drive environmental innovation
Why are “challenges” so crucial in driving innovation? We asked Connie Bourassa-Shaw, the director of UW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship about this, specifically in... Read More