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
UW environmental innovation wows judges
Judges were supposed to walk into the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on March 29, pick up their folders and grab a seat. But the 23 prototypes were... Read More
Undergrad learns from losing and winning a competition
Guest post by James Barger, UW engineering senior and UW Environmental Innovation Challenge co-chair, 2012, Grand Prize team member, UW Environmental Innovation Challenge 2011 “It is... Read More