News Small Business Spotlight: How Diversity Connected Helps Companies Turn Chaos into Clarity For more than two decades, Sara Gregory has been the head of Diversity Connected, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in operational excellence, project management, event execution, and data analytics....
News 10 Small Businesses Graduate from Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program Last month at the Polsky Exchange, mentors, sponsors, and participants gathered to celebrate the graduation of the latest cohort of the Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program (SBG). Over the...
News Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 24th Annual PE Conference The conference brings together investors, students, and entrepreneurs to network and share insights into the dynamics of investing in a constantly changing economy. The conference began with opening remarks from...
Program 2025-26 Program Sponsors Edward L. Kaplan, ’71* FIRST PLACE PRIZE Rattan L. Khosa, ’79 PLATINUM Jim and Karen Frank Venetia Kontogouris, MBA ’77 Gregory J. Purcell, ’94, and Francine C. Purcell Robert Vishny...
Technology Single-shot UV-Vis Multidimensional Spectrophotometer Current UV-Vis protocols require long acquisition times which prevents the acquisition of data on electron dynamics. This in turn limits the resolution with which UV-Vis can be used for certain…
Technology Wide-field Super-resolution Imaging With Femtosecond Time Resolution Optical imaging techniques are limited by diffraction or acquisition time, making imaging through solid materials at the molecular level particularly challenging. As such, current spectroscopy approaches are significantly limited in…
Technology Physics-Informed Autoencoder For Non-Invasive Prediction Of Tissue Composition From MRI Data A deep learning tool that quickly and accurately estimates prostate tissue composition from MRI scans, combining physical modeling and AI to provide robust, non-invasive cancer diagnostics without needing large, labeled…
News 21 Teams Tackling Innovations in Quantum, Healthcare, AI, and More Take First Steps Toward Commercialization Twenty-one teams from across the University of Chicago and local institutions participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this year – identifying and addressing real-world problems in seven weeks, work...
News Polsky Center Announces Autumn 2018 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program, a 7-week highly-experiential program designed to empower UChicago scientists, researchers, and...
News Improving Crops; Saving Energy On August 20, Chromatin—a company that grew out of research at the University of Chicago—announced that it had entered into a technological alliance and license agreement with Bayer CropScience. Under the agreement, Bayer...
News Cancer Detection, Oil Spill Cleanup, Quantum Computing, and a New Medical Device: Meet the Spring 2022 Innovation Fund Finalists Four teams have been selected as finalists for the George Shultz Innovation Fund spring 2022 investment cycle – bringing to the forefront solutions for scaling quantum computers, sustainably cleaning oil...
Technology Recoverable Non-Covalent Self-Assembling Catalysts for Hydrogen Peroxide Electrosynthesis The invention centers on a scalable, sustainable, and selective method to electrochemically generate hydrogen peroxide under mild, neutral conditions. The Unmet Need: Method for producing hydrogen peroxide under mild conditions…
