Fireside chat in Pittsboro features ‘Blue Origin’ astronaut, entrepreneur & investor
Need ideas and advice on starting or growing a business? Attend a “fireside chat” with entrepreneur, UNC professor, and Blue Origin Astronaut Jim Kitchen.
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Carolina Angel Network names UNC professor Ted Zoller as executive director
“I am honored to serve as the leader of [Carolina Angel Network], building on the successful foundation already built by the network,” says Ted Zoller. “Working with leaders in our impactful entrepreneurship culture at Carolina, I am setting out to make CAN the leading university-based entrepreneurship and investor network in the nation.
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‘Next level:’ New director of UNC economic development, innovation hubs has big plans
Sheryl Waddell has been named director of economic development and innovation hubs for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this exclusive interview, she talks about her plans and dreams.
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Startup Spotlight: A new wave of psychiatric care emerging at UNC-CH
UNC-affiliated startup Pulvinar Neuro’s novel treatment for mental illness – a technology that uses closed-loop, non-invasive stimulation of brain waves – offers hope to a rising tide of patients and recently led to the company’s acquisition by medical device leader Electromedical Products International.
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IBM sues to stop UNC grad from becoming chief diversity officer at Microsoft
Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate and a Morehead Scholar who earned her MBA at Duke, won’t be taking over as chief diversity officer at Microsoft – at least for the time being thanks to a lawsuit by IBM where she also led diversity efforts. Her lawyers call IBM’s move “draconian.”
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