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Alumni New Venture Challenge Winner, Speeko, Secures $75K for AI-Driven Speech Coach
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Alumni New Venture Challenge Winner, Speeko, Secures $75K for AI-Driven Speech Coach
Genetically Engineered Skin to Treat Disease, Promote Scarless Wound Healing, and More
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Genetically Engineered Skin to Treat Disease, Promote Scarless Wound Healing, and More
Building Atomically Thin Circuits for Advanced Devices
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Building Atomically Thin Circuits for Advanced Devices

Alumni New Venture Challenge Winner, Speeko, Secures $75K for AI-Driven Speech Coach

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC). The alumni track…

Genetically Engineered Skin to Treat Disease, Promote Scarless Wound Healing, and More

The largest organ in the human body, skin is a robust system with great potential to support not only basic research, but to serve as a platform for stem cell…

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,”…

Patent of the Week: A Low-Cost and Non-Toxic Process for Creating Sustainable Material

Thin fibers made from wood, cellulose nanofibers are apt for use in materials applications because of their desirable chemical, mechanical, and environmental properties. However, isolating these materials is a…

Detecting and Monitoring Disease Using DNA-Nanotechnology

Advanced imaging probes are enabling University of Chicago researchers to predict patient responsivity to therapeutics and monitor the progression of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease and several other…

Using Nanotechnology to Deliver ‘Potentially Transformative’ Peptide-Based Therapeutics

A physician-scientist, James Labelle is developing therapies that modify the function of the immune system – by examining why, on a molecular level, some pediatric cancers are resistant to treatment.…

ETA Spotlight // Monica Weaver, MBA ’07

Monica Weaver, MBA 07, acquired TGI Direct in July. After years as a product manager and marketing manager with Owens Corning and USG, Monica decided to launch Carmel Hill Acquisitions…

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$1M gift supports alumni | New Booth London campus | Polsky at Chicago Water Week

ISTC Releases 2020 R&D Index and Names Three UChicago Professors Top Researchers to Know

The Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC) this week released its latest R&D Index – as well as this year’s Researchers to Know, which includes three faculty members from the…

The Future of Energy Storage: Bringing Batteries to the Molecular Scale

The increasing use of renewable energy and the adoption of electric vehicles among other advances are creating a significant need for inexpensive and long-lived energy storage devices. While lithium-ion batteries…

Honey-Sweetened ‘Nice Cream’ Expands Nationally, Gives Back to the Bees

When Jessica Gartenstein, AB ’17, and Erik Nadeau, AB ’18, entered the 2017 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC), Frönen (formerly BeeNana) was just an idea. “We weren’t really thinking…

$1 Million Gift from Booth Alumnus Leon Wagner, MBA ’77

New gift will establish the Alumni Venture Support Fund at the Polsky Center and support the Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership.
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