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Zach Kaplan is CEO and founder of Inventables.

Inventables raises $5 million in Series B funding

May 21, 2019 at 3:25 a.m.

Chicago-based Inventables, maker of a desktop carving machine and seller of other maker-related supplies and equipment, announced Tuesday it had raised $5 million in Series B funding. Greycroft Partners, a...

NU, Chicago schools hope Web courses lead kids to medical careers

May 21, 2019 at 3:24 a.m.

Dr. Melissa Simon is now a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. So she can laugh when she recalls the school counselor back in...

Peter Carroll, an architect from Dublin, speaks Sept. 29, 2015, about the "New Horizon — Architecture From Ireland" exhibit coming to the Chicago Design Museum, 108 N. State St., as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

For Chicago designers, architecture biennial could be ‘a big moment’

December 18, 2018 at 12:53 a.m.

As the Chicago Architecture Biennial kicks off this weekend, there is no doubt that the city's vaunted architecture community is having a moment. But mingling in the galleries and cocktail...

Madhuvanti Ghose, an Art Institute curator who grew up in India, said "Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings" is an exhibition that represents her "desire to find the finest artists of Nathdwara and help the world understand the unique heritage."

‘Gates of the Lord’ opens a new view of Krishna art

December 18, 2018 at 12:54 a.m.

When the Art Institute of Chicago's Madhuvanti Ghose was a young girl, she traveled from her native Calcutta with her mother to the town of Nathdwara, where they visited the...

LaToya Ruby Frazier is a documentary photographer and filmmaker who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work highlights the plight of residents, especially older African-Americans, in her hometown of Braddock, Pa., once a bustling steel mill town.

3 Chicagoans among class of MacArthur ‘geniuses’

December 18, 2018 at 12:55 a.m.

Three Chicagoans — a documentary photographer, a computational biologist and a community education innovator — are among the 24 newest MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant winners announced Monday. Officially known as...

Brian Hill co-founder of Jail Education Solutions addresses a full room of guests, his businesses goal is to help incarcerated people make better use of their time rather than watching television or playing cards. People pitching business ideas at a Impact Engine Demo Day at 111 W. Kinzie. Jan.15, 2014 (Phil Velasquez Chicago Tribune) B583464979Z.1 .....OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION..

Edovo ‘changing the conversation’ about inmates and learning

May 21, 2019 at 3:19 a.m.

If the prisoners at Pittsburgh's Allegheny County Jail are any indication, a Chicago-based education startup may be poised for growth. "It's definitely a thumbs-up," Jack Pischke, the jail's program administrator,...

Pop-up Christmas card inspires NU’s newest 3D development

May 21, 2019 at 3:16 a.m.

It might be the next big breakthrough in high-tech, 3D fabrication, and it got its inspiration in part from a pop-up Christmas card. Researchers at Northwestern University and the University...

ITA sets up advisory board to help Chicago attract tech talent

May 21, 2019 at 3:14 a.m.

Trisha Degg, director of talent programs at the Illinois Technology Association, this year brought some recruiters together to discuss local companies' challenge of finding tech talent. "We called it a...

Psychologist Eileen Kennedy-Moore cited cited a phenomenon called the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0" target="_blank">still-face paradigm</a>" in which a baby "freaks out" when a parent, after being responsive, turns unresponsive.

Is your technology hurting your child’s development?

May 21, 2019 at 3:13 a.m.

Everyone knows this picture: Parent or babysitter sits in a coffee shop staring at a smartphone, while a baby sits gurgling in a stroller. Those who've been in those trenches...

The rest of the world sees millions of bright young men and women arriving on college campuses across the country. Computer hackers see fresh meat.

What college students need to know about fending off hackers

May 21, 2019 at 3:13 a.m.

The rest of the world sees millions of bright young men and women arriving on college campuses across the country. Computer hackers see fresh meat. They see kids with fingerprints...

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