One Million Cups

Pharmaceutical innovations in the palm of your hand.

As a pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Tyler Ebert is making strides to bring peace of mind to severe allergy sufferers through drug delivery innovations. While still a student at the University of…

Help Us Welcome, Brent McNeal Our New Guest Writer.

The Emerging Prairie team is thrilled to have Brent McNeal as a guest writer who will be helping us tell the stories of our 1 Million Cups Fargo speakers each week.…

Abode app simplifies home buying

You know what’s fun? Ordering a pizza and eating on the floor of your first home. You know what’s not fun? Figuring out your closing costs and tax payments. Kyle…

Lifelong learners at Montessorium build apps to encourage independent learning

“Don’t be discouraged by the traditionalists.” For the type to think outside the box, it’s sage advice. Especially when it comes from Steve Jobs. “In the middle of the night,…

NDSU student researchers working to make prescription drugs cheaper

Meticulous. Creative. Intellectually courageous. That’s NDSU student Kelly Howard in a nutshell. This from Professor David Wells, Ph.D, who teaches Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Howard has the course load you…

Fargo entrepreneurs standardizing pocket billiards ratings with FargoRate

Steve Ernst sees a problem and he fixes it. Turns out, there’s a pretty big problem in the world of pocket billiards: there’s no standardized ranking system for player abilities. Instead…

Token of Trust. Software company streamlines ID verification process.

“I was a tinkerer. Always building stuff.” Austin O’Brion is a maker. “I was a 4H-er. I focused on electricity. I had to learn how to sew…That’s what you do…

Social entrepreneurs value community over bottom line

What’s your favorite city? Why? I bet you dollars to donuts not one of you picked a great city because of its mayor or business leaders. You picked it because…

A personal lighthouse

“Find pizza near me.” “How do I get to the airport?” That’s how we’re used to using locater tech. It makes sense when you’re exploring a new city. We don’t…

A "LEAP" forward for NDSU professor, RFID technology

For close to five years, Dr. Val Marinov worked quietly alongside students and faculty at the NDSU Research and Technology Park to develop cutting-edge technology for microelectronics assembly. The technology, known as Laser…