This fall 25 undergraduates from the College of Arts & Media, the College of Engineering, Design & Computing, and the Business School joined the inaugural Design Horizons LABS Entrepreneurial Fellows Program, an immersive nine-month learning journey for undergraduate students passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, design, and all forms of creativity.

Created in partnership with Creative Startups, a global startup accelerator, the program provides CU Denver students an unparalleled opportunity to develop a new creative venture tackling a pressing social or environmental challenge, establish professional networks, and build leadership skills. Students begin the venture by forming teams and being paired with entrepreneurial mentors who have found success in technology, business, and creative fields.

In November, Design Horizons Fellows Davis Jay-Harris (3D Graphics & Animation) and Cybelle Richeson, (Business) will join Associate Dean Laurie Baefsky and co-founder of Creative Start Ups, Alice Loy, at the international Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education Conference. Together they will present the session “Designing Disruption,” sharing how cross-disciplinary thinking and entrepreneurial solutions that are fostered by programs such as Design Horizons can address the abundance of social and environmental challenges. Associate Dean Mark Rabideau and Digital Design professor Brain Delevie will also be presenting at the conference.