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UNC brings innovative spirit, cutting-edge exhibits to Smithsonian festival

UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, students and staff joined with the 14 other universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference at the ACCelerate Creativity and...

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Education Dive explores UNC-Chapel Hill’s unique approach to innovation and entrepreneurship

In a recent article, Education Dive featured its conversation with Judith Cone, vice chancellor for innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development at UNC-Chapel...

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Business North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill speeds pace of tech-transfer efforts

Accelerating UNC Chapel Hill’s profile as a startup hot spot is an increasing priority that is panning out, according to...

Feelin’ DNA inspires visually impaired science students with 3D-printed models

Feelin’ DNA, founded by UNC biology and biomedical engineering students, is inspiring the visually impaired by providing tactile learning tools...

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Economic & Social Impact

Former UNC student, nonprofit founder invited to Clinton Global Initiative University

Camille McGirt always believed that actions taken locally can have a ripple effect and change lives around the globe. That...

Call for Concepts: 2017 C. Felix Harvey Award

The deadline for completing and submitting your proposal for the C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional Priorities is quickly approaching: October...

Economic & Social Impact

UNC commercialization team ventures west, promotes Carolina technologies at BIO Conference

Walk into any of the world’s most inventive laboratories, and you’ll find the sharpest scientific minds searching for the right...

Economic & Social Impact

How university startups deliver an economic boost – and improve lives – in North Carolina communities

The following is a letter by Judith Cone, Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at UNC-Chapel Hill. The...

Startups & Ventures

Launch Chapel Hill opens new office space, leads local startup boom

Conveniently located adjacent to UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus, Launch Chapel Hill has become the epicenter of the downtown’s growing startup movement....

Carolina pioneers unique database to measure the economic value of startups

As universities increase their role in cultivating startup companies, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is taking the...

Startups & Ventures

First-year student launches nonprofit to improve community engagement

Service has been a hallmark of Chris Suggs’ teenage years in his hometown of Kinston, North Carolina. Now the incoming...

UNC-Chapel Hill startups deliver economic boost to North Carolina communities

The economic value created by startups connected with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is on the rise,...

Digital Health Innovation Sprint Names Winner

More than 100 entrepreneurs, designers, developers, engineers, health care providers and students gathered for Demo Day, a culmination of the...

Funding & Investors

Triangle Venture Alliance Makes First Investment with 410 Medical

Sepsis, bodily shock and trauma from extreme injuries like car accidents or gunshot wounds are medical conditions with an unfortunate...

UNC-Chapel Hill spinout company generates more than $108M in stock offering

G1 Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage oncology company in Research Triangle Park with ties to the University of North Carolina Lineberger...

KickStart Venture Services announces commercialization award winners

KickStart Venture Services, a program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that supports the creation of faculty startup...

Economic & Social Impact

$18 million gift will transform entrepreneurship at Carolina

An $18 million gift from three alumni siblings will more than double the size of the University of North Carolina...

Economic & Social Impact

UNC Senior Leaves His Mark: CarolinaGo App, Adobe Creative Cloud Initiative

When Brent Comstock arrived in Chapel Hill four years ago, he had a simple plan: take advantage of every opportunity...

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Dr. Nancy Allbritton receives UNC-Chapel Hill’s Inventor of the Year Award

If there’s one invention Dr. Nancy Allbritton is hiding from the world, it might be a new kind of clock...

2017 Innovation Showcase Features Promising Ventures

More than 300 entrepreneurs, investors and community leaders from across the region gathered at UNC’s Annual Innovation Showcase to connect,...

Startups & Ventures

Real Sound in a Virtual World

Gaming giant Valve acquires Impulsonic — a UNC-created 3-D sound simulation software company started by two PhD students and faculty...

UNC Faculty Pushing the Future of Advanced Manufacturing

One company poised for re-shaping the 3D fabrication industry is Carbon. Dr. Joe DeSimone, the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry...

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Podcast: Carolina and the Maker Movement

This podcast covers the maker movement at Carolina with Rich Superfine, director of the Be a Maker Network. Listen to...

Funding & Investors

Innovate Carolina Creates Fund for Entrepreneurial Development

Innovate Carolina is offering sponsorships to university departments, programs, faculty, students and staff in support of its mission to further...

Carolina Challenge Announces Pitch Party Winners

A record 100 teams and 89 judges participated in this year’s Carolina Challenge Pitch Party, with more than 300 students...

Funding & Investors

UNC Launches Carolina Angel Network, Names Managing Director

Randy Myer, Professor of the Practice in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, will bring more than 30...

Economic & Social Impact

Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Associate Director Receives Chamber Award

Dina Rousset, Associate Director of UNC’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, was honored with the Town and Gown award from the...

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

UNC Researchers Advance HIV Research in Partnership with GlaxoSmithKline

For David Margolis, MD, Director of the UNC HIV Cure Center, treating the HIV virus and its symptoms simply isn’t...

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Alumnus Raj Panjabi Is The 2017 TED Prize Winner, Receives $1 Million Award

Alumnus Raj Panjabi’ BS 02′ MD ’07 has just been announced the 2017 TED Prize Winner with a $1 million...

Economic & Social Impact

UNC Alumnus Founds NonProfit to Advance Education for Children Displaced By War

Scott Quilty (EMBA ’15) is the co-founder of TentED, a nonprofit that supports education for children displaced by war. The...

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