News Polsky Partners with Hyde Park Art Center to Bring Artists and Entrepreneurs Together On Thursday, November 1, the Polsky Center, along with the Hyde Park Art Center and Chicago-based artist Beth Kamhi, turned the Polsky Exchange into a postmodernist art gallery.
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
News Small Business Spotlight: With Taylor’s Tacos, West Coast Street Food Finds West Side Community After moving back home to Chicago from California, Taylor Mason missed Los Angeles’ ubiquitous street tacos. She’d get an occasional whiff thanks to a guy who sporadically set up a...
Page Entrepreneurs-in-Residence The Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program is open to current students and alumni and provides mentorship and coaching to University of Chicago students. Successful Chicago-based entrepreneurs are available to meet throughout the...
Event SBDC: “Experience Hyde Park” Hyde Park Chamber Business Seminar October 2, 2024 This is an opportunity to bring together local businesses and civic, educational, and elected members of the Chicago Hyde Park Business Community to discuss key issues affecting the community and...
News Small Business Spotlight: Big Plans are Brewing For Kikwetu Kenya Coffee Company With three young children and a full-time job as a technology executive, Leecox Omollo has to be intentional about how he spends his spare time. So as he and his...
News Small Business Spotlight: Getting Lost Leads Owner of Forty Acres Fresh Market to Find Her Entrepreneurial Spirit When Liz Abunaw, MBA’14, stepped off the No. 66 bus in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood six years ago, she wasn’t looking to change her life. She was looking for a bank....
News Acclaimed Vintage Boutique Recycled Modern, a Polsky Alum, Expands With New Shop in Hyde Park’s Harper Court Recycled Modern, an alumnus of the Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program, is bringing its art, home décor, and lifestyle boutique to Hyde Park’s Harper Court, fulfilling its owner’s...
News Hyde Park Labs, UChicago Science Incubator Add to Growing Ecosystem for Founders on the South Side The University of Chicago this week celebrated the opening of Hyde Park Labs and its new UChicago Science Incubator — advancing the University’s long-term vision to bring world-class research, entrepreneurial...
News Building Atomically Thin Circuits for Advanced Devices The nature of Jiwoong Park’s work is multidisciplinary: trying to connect fundamental science with very challenging problems that do not have immediate solutions – “and there are plenty of them,”...
News UChicago Welcomes Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to Hyde Park Labs New presence in the UChicago Science Incubator expands opportunities for high school STEM students and supports the South Side innovation ecosystem The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the...
News From Discovery to Dissemination: How a New Collaboration is Helping Get Knowledge ‘Out the Door’ Healthcare investment firm Deerfield Management recently visited the University of Chicago to meet with researchers and discuss Hyde Park Discovery, a new collaboration to advance discoveries from the lab. “I’m...
