The month-long celebration highlights the innovation and cutting-edge research happening across the University of Chicago.
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- May 01, 2017
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The festival is organized by the University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; the Institute for Translational Medicine; Chicago Booth’s Social Enterprise Initiative; and the Office of Research, Innovation, and National Laboratories. “Innovation Fest brings together brilliant minds from on campus and around Chicago to celebrate innovation,” said Mary Naset, assistant director for external relations and communications for the Polsky Center. “This showcase truly demonstrates the kind of groundbreaking thinking that happens every day at UChicago.”
Learn more about the UChicago Innovation Fest programming at innofest.uchicago.edu.
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