News Small Business Spotlight: Hemp Heals Body Shop Preaches Plants Over Pills Tiffany Joi raised some eyebrows when she debuted her line of CBD-infused lotions and oils at the Hyde Park Farmers Market in 2019. “You should have seen the looks,” said...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 9 Episode 9: Grubhub June 10, 2021 Matt Maloney admits he had a bit of an ego when he entered the New Venture Challenge. He had already launched Grubhub, had a...
News 30 Teams Advance to Phase II of the 2024 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Today, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the 30 Phase II teams advancing in the 2024 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the University of Chicago’s...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 2 Episode 2: ExplORer Surgical April 22, 2021 Jennifer Fried, MBA ’15, started her MBA at Chicago Booth with dreams of a career in venture capital. By the time she graduated,...
News With Prototype for Success, UChicago Prepares Students Under-Represented in STEM to be the Tech Leaders of the Future Antonio Castano perked up at the first discussion question posed to the inaugural cohort of Prototype for Success, a new program designed to prepare University of Chicago undergraduates for careers...
News 6 Local Entrepreneurs Form Legal Businesses at Incorporation/Organization Day Earlier this month, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted Incorporation/Organization Day, an event that connects South and West Side entrepreneurs with attorneys from local law firms to explore...
Technology Novel Small Molecule Treatment for Staphylococcus Aureus SSTI Infections SUMMARY Staphylococcus aureus infects 50,000 patients and kills 20,000 annually in the United States alone. With widespread antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent need for alternative mechanisms of targeting S.…
Technology Atomic Layer Chemical Pattern For Block Copolymer Assembly Block copolymers can assemble into large-scale, dense, and regular nanoscale patterns, making block copolymer assembly a potential candidate for nanolithography. The assembly of block copolymers can be directed to follow…
Technology A Primary 3D Culture Model for the High Throughput Ex-vivo Modeling of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis Current high throughput screens for ovarian cancer drug discovery use monolayer cell culture on plastic, and problematically cannot accurately model the cross communication between the cancer cells and the tumor…
Technology Enhanced Nitrogen Vacancy Synthesis in Diamond: Minimizing Hydrogen Passivation Keywords: Electron radiation effects, Ion implantation, Spectroscopy, Chemical vapor deposition, Optical fibers, Quantum information This method mitigates hydrogen passivation of nitrogen vacancy centers (NV centers) in diamond through vacuum annealing…
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 8 Episode 8: PrettyQuick June 3, 2021 Coco Meers’ career has centered on helping women look and feel their best. When she caught the entrepreneurship bug and looked for a pain...
News How Local Stores Can Thrive this Holiday Season The following article was written by Abigail Ingram, executive director of the Polsky Exchange, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on November 17, 2025. Read the original article. When...
