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Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Jill Kahane

Jill Kahane joined as a member of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s Polsky Exchange in March 2018. She was first introduced to the Polsky Center through a lunch…

Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Devshi Mehrotra

Polsky member Devshi Mehrotra joined the Polsky Exchange as a first-year undergraduate at UChicago. Now, Mehrotra’s interests in entrepreneurship and technology have only deepened.

Polsky Center Brings in Artist to Add Playfulness to Co-working Spaces

Luckily for those who work at the Polsky Center, an artist named Kara Cobb Johnson is adding a bit more fun to Polsky's Hyde Park co-working space.

Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Nwanyinma Nnodum

Polsky member Nwanyinma Nnodum first wandered into the Polsky Center with a slightly different intention than most new faces we see.

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.

Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Christine Saffold

Polsky Member Christine Saffold represents everything that makes the Polsky Exchange, as well as the South Side community as a whole, so strong.

Newest Members of the Polsky Incubator Selected

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the teams moving into the Polsky Incubator, which is located at the Polsky Center’s 34,000 square foot coworking space,…

Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Vanessa Stevenson

Polsky member Vanessa Stevenson is the human embodiment of everything that makes the Polsky community so great. In addition to regularly attending events held at the Polsky Exchange, Vanessa is…

Polsky Accelerator Program Concludes with Demo Day

For the past 10 weeks, 14 companies have participated in the 2018 Polsky Accelerator program. The annual program is designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to develop their ventures.…

Woman- and Minority- led Small Businesses Need Cash to Grow. How to Get It.

No money, no growth. Without robust small businesses on the South and West sides, joblessness will continue to plague neighborhoods, experts say. That's the message from a recent report by…

As Entrepreneurship at UChicago Picks Up, Booth Prof Takes on Organizing Role

Energy around entrepreneurship is picking up speed at University of Chicago, and not just at the Booth School of Business: The computer science department is hiring a professor to teach…

City Club of Chicago: John Flavin, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

John Flavin leads the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which drives the creation of new businesses at the University of Chicago and on Chicago’s South Side. In this role,…
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