Event Align Your Team, Accelerate Your Growth: A Workshop for Entrepreneurs March 31, 2026 Entrepreneurs and small business teams don’t have time—or money—to waste. These four questions show up again and again in small businesses: ● “How do we make progress when the work...
News Peer-to-Peer Payment App Paytera Takes First Place at the 2026 College New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced peer-to-peer payment app, Paytera, as the winner of the 14th Annual College New Venture Challenge (CNVC), with judges awarding $330,000 to...
Event AI and Digital Upskilling Summit: Practical Skills for Small Businesses and Workforce Partners May 12, 2026 Practical Skills for Small Businesses and Workforce Partners This half-day summit is designed to help small business owners and community partners build practical digital and AI skills they can immediately...
Technology A System for Frailty Assessment, Frailty Mitigation, and Clinical Research Frailty is a condition that often affects the elderly. It is characterized by increased susceptibility to physiologic stressors such as illness and major surgery. Screening for frailty in our thoracic…
Technology Neurophysiological Biomarker for Early ALS Detection Presently, physicians rely on a costly and invasive battery of tests for diagnosing ALS. Early detection of ALS can improve patient survival and quality of life as well as promote…
Technology Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence For Rapid Multi-Task Learning Multi-task learning is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Biologically-inspired recurrent neural networks (RNNs), trained using backpropagation, can learn an…
Technology Grace: A Data Scalable Real-Time Video Communication System Real-time video communications are essential to the daily routine of users for online meetings, cloud gaming, and interactive virtual reality. Retransmitting data packets that are not compatible can lead to…
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…
Technology Palm-Free Haptics: Full-Hand Touch Feedback for VR/AR and Wearable Interfaces Summary University of Chicago researchers have developed a wearable electro-tactile feedback technique that creates touch sensations across the palm and fingers without placing electrodes directly on the palm. By positioning…
Event Application Deadline: Physical Products Incubator March 24, 2023 The Physical Products Incubator is a six-week long program designed to help inventors and innovators go from idea to prototype. Instructional sessions are held in-person at the Polsky Exchange North,...
News Global New Venture Challenge Announces 7 Finalists Competing for Investments 2024 GNVC Winner Investable Seven teams have been selected for the 19th annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) finals, taking place on Friday, June 5. The GNVC is a track of the New...
News Record-Breaking $435,000 Awarded at 19th Annual Global New Venture Challenge; Phinorm, Morton Labs Tie for First Place Phinorm provides on-device drone detection software for defense sensors, while Morton Labs is building computational infrastructure to accelerate fusion energy research. The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced...
