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 NVC@30 Fireside Chat with David Rabie Spotlights Tovala’s Journey from NVC to a Profitable, 9-Figure Revenue Business The Polsky Center continued its NVC@30 Fireside Chat series with David Rabie, MBA ’15, founder and CEO of Tovala and winner of the 2015 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71 New Venture...
News Polsky Internship Program Forms Student Teams to Innovate New Medical Solutions The Inaugural Biodesign Internship Program at the University of Chicago shows us innovation and originality at its greatest.
Technology UV Disinfecting System to Facilitate N95 Respirator Re-Use Currently there are several solutions under consideration for disinfecting N95 respirators for re-use, with UV-C as the preferred solution because of ease of deployment and widespread applicability. Problematically, present UV-C…
News nuBorn Medical to Pitch Their Preemie-Saving Technology at the 2018 Fall George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals Chicago researchers are trying to deal with one of the preemies’ most vexing problems: Choking while bottle-feeding.
News Ice Slurry Research Pays Off for a Cleaner Environment “Twenty years ago, Argonne and the DOE must have had a crystal ball to develop an environmentally friendly refrigeration system that could meet today’s urgent demand for ‘green’ technologies,” says...
News Solarmer Energy Inc. Expects Sun to Shine on Chicago Invention Solarmer Energy Inc. is developing plastic solar cells for portable electronic devices that will incorporate technology invented at the University of Chicago. The company is on track to complete a...
News Researchers Develop a Faster, Better Way to Disinfect N95 Masks for Reuse A team of University of Chicago researchers has developed a better way to decontaminate N95 masks – potentially saving the academic health system thousands of the sought-after masks during the...
News Patent of the Week: Precisely Delivering High Dose Radiation to Multiple Tumor Sites University of Chicago researchers have developed an algorithm and prototype software package that successfully generates radiation beam angles for more precisely delivering treatment to multiple tumor sites. Stereotactic ablative body...
News AI, Life Sciences, Quantum Tech to Get Boost as Part of the Compass Accelerator’s Latest Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce that six teams have been selected for the latest cohort of Compass, a deep tech accelerator program for University...
News Where Are They Now? How Kindness Built KindWorks Update 2/6/2025: KindWorks is featured in Season 7 of Meet The Drapers, a global pitch competition hosted by venture capitalist Tim Draper. Their pitch airs on March 14, and audience...
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…
