Entrepreneurship Articles

Dynamic Entrepreneurship

Dynamic Entrepreneurship

Matt Rutherford is the director of the Unmanned Systems Research Institute, which is a research lab in the engineering school that studies unmanned aircraft, ground robots, autopilot systems and various systems in this field. He began working at the University of...

Making Space to Innovate

Making Space to Innovate

Michael Caston has been with the University of Denver for nearly five years. He joined DU in 2016 as program manager of the Innovation Labs, an interdisciplinary makerspace and incubator space that was the first of its kind at DU. He previously spent five years at...

Alumna Empowers Female Entrepreneurs in Russian Hometown

Alumna Empowers Female Entrepreneurs in Russian Hometown

Approximately 5,885 miles west of Denver, nestled just below the Oglahty mountains in south Siberia, sits little Minusinsk, a Russian town that’s probably not on most people’s minds, but is certainly on the mind of Katerina Arzhayev. Arzhayev (BA 2016, MS 2018) was...

Aspire to Inspire: Innovation in Content Creation

Aspire to Inspire: Innovation in Content Creation

Sterling Voth graduated from the University of Denver in 2020 with a major in marketing and minors in film and entrepreneurship. In January 2020, he founded Voth Productions—a team of creatives and digital advertisers dedicated to content creation, event coverage and...

The Unintentional Entrepreneur

The Unintentional Entrepreneur

Although death and taxes may be the two best-known certainties in life, Ronnie Pollard (BS 2007)—and all of the unintentional entrepreneurs out there, for that matter—would probably like to add one more to that list of inevitabilities: the necessity of business...

Inclusive Innovation: Changing the Face of Film

Inclusive Innovation: Changing the Face of Film

Sheila Schroeder is a faculty member of DU’s Media, Film & Journalism Studies department. She received her BA in Journalism from Valparaiso University, as well as an MA and PhD from Indiana University. As a social issues filmmaker, she has worked as a...

Empowering Young Women Through Social Entrepreneurship

Empowering Young Women Through Social Entrepreneurship

Heidi Ganahl (MA 1999) has a lot of powerful messages, especially for young women, but perhaps the most powerful message this serial entrepreneur wants young people to know is that it’s okay not to know. “We need to normalize not having it all figured out at 22. I...

Engineering Innovation: Robots Providing Social Support

Engineering Innovation: Robots Providing Social Support

Mohammad H. Mahoor received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Miami in 2007, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow and received the Marino Autism Research Institute award for his research on facial expressions analysis of children...

Intellectual Endeavors

Intellectual Endeavors

CeCe Ging joined DU’s Office of Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer as manager in May 2018. She holds a JD from the University of Tennessee College of Law and her undergraduate degree in chemistry/biochemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a...