News Polsky Center Welcomes 5 Fellows and Associates Taking on Roles Across Two New Programs The Polsky Center is welcoming five new faces this summer taking on roles across two new fellowship programs. The Polsky Innovation Fellowship features three 4+1 students with technical backgrounds to...
News Meet the 3 New Innovation Fellows Joining the Polsky Center This Summer The Polsky Center is welcoming three new faces this summer taking on roles as Innovation Fellows. The Polsky Innovation Fellowship features three students with technical backgrounds to support analytical and...
News Researchers to Know: UChicago Professors Kunle Odunsi and Rama Ranganathan Recognized for Groundbreaking Work The Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC) this year has named University of Chicago Professors Kunle Odunsi and Rama Ranganathan as among its 2021 Researchers to Know. “Research activity at...
News This Startup Wants to Lay the Groundwork for Future loT Startups As the price of connected sensors continues to drop, companies are coming up with ever-more inventive ways to do things like embed them into kids’ clothes, use them to track...
News Super.tech Receives $150,000 from George Shultz Innovation Fund to Lay the Groundwork for Quantum Computing The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has awarded $150,000 from its George Shultz Innovation Fund to Super.tech, a company that is “supercharging” near-term quantum...
News Record-Setting NVC Alum Talks Passion, Growing Pains, and Putting Her Foot Down Breaking boundaries means knowing when to make unpopular decisions for Jilian Fenton, the founder and CEO of My Art Cache – which brought in a record-setting prize during the 2019...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 10 Episode 10: Andes STR June 17, 2021 Growing up in Chile in a family of entrepreneurs, Sebastian Rivas since childhood has been on the lookout for problems that need solving....
News Quantitative Insights Gaining Ground In November 2009, two new University of Chicago MBA students attended an Ideation Workshop sponsored by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and UChicagoTech. One of the presenters—Maryellen Giger, professor of...
News UChicago Invests $300,000 in Groundbreaking New Immunotherapy Startup Founded by University Professor as Part of $22 Million Series A Pyxis Oncology is the sixth recipient of a venture investment from the UChicago Startup Investment Program.
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 7 Episode 7: Braintree May 27, 2021 Growing up in a small, religious town in Utah, Bryan Johnson felt he existed in a video game where the rules were all mapped...