News Chicago’s South Side Neighborhood Coworking Space and Startup Hub Turns 5 In October 2014, a 34,000 square foot coworking space and facility opened up to not only serve all students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Chicago, but also...
News Marketing Communications in a Pandemic During a crisis, there are three essential components to effective communication on which to focus: Ideas, tactics, and tone. “The goal as a communicator is not only to not make...
News How to Turn a Niche Idea into a Thriving Start-Up “I love tax.” It is not a phrase you often hear, but Maria Scott, a former tax lawyer, found she had a penchant for the subject while studying law at...
News Meet Abigail Prescott, the Polsky Center’s New Executive Director of Marketing and Communications The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce that Abigail Prescott has joined the executive leadership team as executive director of marketing and communications. She will lead...
News TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More Ellen Rudnick, MBA ’73, Executive Director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business, works to further University innovation by fostering collaboration both inside and outside...
News Mentoring Program to Bridge Gap Between Ideas and Innovation The inaugural event of the new Chicago Innovators Mentors program matched experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and domain experts with innovating faculty from multiple institutions. Left to right: Mentor Dan Schmitt, Jim...
News From Idea to Impact // April 2020 Decoding the coronavirus, mitigating migraines, turntables to teach STEM, and financial fundamentals.
News From Idea to Impact // February 2020 Professor Cathy Nagler featured in National Geographic, Professor Chuan He's breakthrough shakes up our understanding of gene expression, George Shultz Innovation Fund invests $500,000 into DrLullaby and Laiya, and Polsky announces a partnership between Absolute Antibody Partners and Recombinant Antibody Network.
News From Idea to Impact // December 2019 RNA-editing startup Korro Bio launches, QuantX featured in TIME magazine's "100 Best Inventions of 2019", Jiwoong Park creates extremely thin films that could enable new electronics, research effort by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory wins the R&D 100 Award, and Ernst Lengyel and Vineet Aroraelected to the National Academy of Medicine.
News From Idea to Impact // February 2019 The George Shultz Innovation Fund awards $600K, Tao Pan develops tRNA sequencing technique, Thomas Gajewski talks immunotherapy treatments, and Bozhi Tian to create new kind of pacemaker.
News From Idea to Impact // April 2019 “AVpeptides,” alternative breast cancer treatment, new way to manufacture infrared detectors, and University of Wisconsin-Madison joins the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE).
