News Stellatus Solutions, a Startup Born at UChicago and Nurtured By Polsky, Acquired by Slingshot Aerospace to Help Prevent Satellite Collisions in Space Last fall, a team of University of Chicago students was tasked with addressing a challenge one might hope already had a solution: How to improve communication between satellite operators to...
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 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...
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…
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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...
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 DeepTechU Day 1: Experts Talk Streamlining Tech Transfer, Accelerating Startup Success, and the Importance of Making Connections Juan de Pablo, Vice President for National Laboratories, Science Strategy, Innovation, and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago, kicked off the first day of DeepTechU – which attracted a global...
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,...
