Mason James Butler is an AI writer for UVU's Kahlert Applied AI Institute. A published fiction writer and entrepreneur, Mason is studying Integrated Studies, Entrepreneurship & Creative Writing at UVU.
Utah Valley University students developed an AI-driven framework urging universities to replace lectures with AI tutoring and prioritize mentorship, collaboration, and human connection as higher education faces accelerating disruption.
Spencer Magleby spent 30+ years at BYU applying folding paper techniques into spacecraft. Now he leads UVU's Smith College of Engineering and Technology.
Two healthcare founders at a Utah hackathon discussed motivation, stress-focused medicine, and regulatory friction. They emphasized resilience, incremental validation, and contrasting views on innovation adoption in clinical systems.
HITLAB's Innovation World Cup brought 1,277 applicants and a $96K prize pool to Utah Valley University. A retired Army officer's maternal health startup won the pitch competition. A team of builders took home the hackathon bounty.
A Provo hackathon team, Portobello Health, builds an AI-agent tool letting patients monitor their own medical records, addressing privacy risks in the new national QHIN network — without winning a bounty.
Utah's Chief Privacy Officer unveils SEDI, a state-endorsed digital identity model built on individual control, at a UVU hackathon where a Provo team builds AI health-record agents on the same framework.
Utah's 47G Institute convened 195 investors, defense researchers, and startup founders at the University of Utah for Critical Ventures 2026, addressing rare earth supply chain vulnerability through the DARPA-backed SMART testbed, AI sourcing tools, and federal permitting reform.
GoForth Foundation, an American Fork, Utah nonprofit, built an AI pipeline that takes a sacred site from research to published page in 15 minutes. It has its sights set on every temple, cathedral, and holy site on earth.
