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...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Startups & Ventures 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...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Economic & Social Impact 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...
I&E Education, Startups & Ventures 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...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Economic & Social Impact Alumna Named Triangle Business Journal Healthcare Hero for Social Startup Miraclefeet Each year, nearly 200,000 children are born with clubfoot. Thanks in part to a $1 million grant from Google, co-founder...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship UNC Students Take Full Advantage of BeAM Makerspace Among many others, UNC student Elizabeth Monaghan is jumping in and taking full advantage of the recently-opened BeAM maker paces....
Innovation & Entrepreneurship UNC Researchers Make Important Breakthrough UNC researchers are working to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in stent patients with a quick, precise genetic test...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Entrepreneurship Week Celebrates Changemakers Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s largest celebration of innovators, and UNC will again participate this year by hosting...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Creating a Community of Makers The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is celebrating the grand opening...
Startups & Ventures UNC Entrepreneur-in-Residence Jan Davis Shares Expertise On Angel Investing Jan Davis is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Professor of the Practice in the Minor in Entrepreneurship, and an active angel investor...
Funding & Investors $1 Million Gift Launches Classroom Based Creative Incubator FashionMash Workroom FashionMash, directed by Professor of the Practice Dana MacMahan in UNC’s School of Media and Journalism, catalyzes a very...
Funding & Investors, Startups & Ventures Seal the Seasons Founded by UNC Alumnus Makes Farm-to-Freezer Possible “In a year, the company has taken off. They’ve recently secured deals with Harris Teeter, Whole Foods South, and Lowe’s...
Funding & Investors Alumnus Jonathan Robertson Supports UNC Student Entrepreneurs Alumnus Jonathan Robertson, President and Managing Director of private equity firm TG Capital Corp, has committed $100,000 to Innovate Carolina...
Economic & Social Impact UNC students use 3D printers to create prosthetic hands for children The Helping Hand Project is a nonprofit that prints 3D prosthetic hands for children who cannot use or afford traditional...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Computer Science Breaks Stigmas With Programs Like Pearl Hacks Despite the higher number of undergraduate women enrolled at UNC, some departments are still struggling to reflect the diversity of...
Funding & Investors Lucerno Dynamics, Led by UNC Alumnus, Raises $6.3M in Equity Financing Lucerno Dynamics is developing a first-of-its-kind technology designed to help oncologists fight cancerous tumors. Under the leadership of its CEO...
Innovation & Entrepreneurship UNC Lineberger Featured in ’60 Minutes’ for Leveraging Artificial Intelligence 60 Minutes came to UNC Lineberger to learn how researchers are using IBM’s Watson to analyze genetic data and generate...
Startups & Ventures UNC Run Social Venture Ignites Commitment to Solar in St. Lucia Solar Head of State, a UNC student-run social venture, works to encourage leaders worldwide to install solar on public buildings....
Startups & Ventures Alumnus Alec Guettel’s Latest Startup In the News Serial entrepreneur Alec Guettel ’91 is the co-founder of Axiom Law, a tech-enabled alternative to traditional law firms, and Sungevity,...
Startups & Ventures Two from UNC Among Best 2016 University Startups U.S. universities create more than 800 startups each year, and 200 companies were screened in the search to find the...