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Two University of Louisville-born companies have won prestigious Vogt Innovation Awards. (Photo: Greater Louisville Inc.)

Teams featuring UofL students, faculty win Vogt Awards

Two startups founded by University of Louisville students and faculty are among the 2018 Vogt Award winners, each of whom will receive training, mentoring...

College of Business launches online graduate program in franchise management

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville has launched an online Franchise Management Certificate, a nine-hour graduate-level program offered through the College of Business. The...

Free Enterprise Center announces fall speaker lineup

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Vince Tyra, University of Louisville athletic director, will discuss business values Sept. 12 as he opens the Center for Free Enterprise...

UofL business grad student lifts fellow Latinos

The first day of fall semester classes is always one of excitement and hope as students embark on a journey that will result in...

Tim Capps given posthumous award

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The American Horse Council has given a posthumous award to Tim Capps, the director of the College of Business Equine Industry...
Drs. Thad Druffel (left), of Bert Thin Films and Mahendra Sunkara (right), of Advanced Energy Materials LLC, spoke at the pilot event of ShareIt, where UofL researchers share their experience with research commercialization.

UofL researcher-entrepreneurs share experiences in new program

A new program at the University of Louisville aims to give researchers a little guidance when trying to commercialize innovations developed here. The Forcht Center...
University of Louisville double-alum Tendai Charasika, CEO of SuperFan U (right), poses with Fund for the Arts’ Christen Boone at GLI’s Inc.Credible Awards. (Credit: Tendai Charasika)

UofL double-alum named Small Business Leader of the Year

University of Louisville double-alum Tendai Charasika has been named Small Business Leader of the Year by the city’s chamber of commerce, Greater Louisville Inc.  Charasika...
Maggie Galloway (center front, in the tan blazer), CEO of Inscope Medical Solutions, collects her prize from AOL co-founder Steve Case (to Galloway’s left) after winning the Rise of the Rest pitch competition at the UofL Speed Art Museum.

UofL-born tech startup pitches to Steve Case — and knocks it out of the...

Inscope Medical Solutions, a medical device company born at the University of Louisville, has won $100,000 in tech icon Steve Case’s "Rise of the...
CHS Tardy System, a team of freshmen from Carroll County Schools, won the UofL Product Innovation Award at this year's Entrepreneurial Challenge.

Entrepreneurial high school students pitch ideas at UofL

Entrepreneurial high school students pitched their business ideas at the University University of Louisville this week as part of the 2018 Lt. Governor’s Entrepreneurship...
MetaConstruction Technologies' Nick McRae and Max Kommor met in the Entrepreneurship MBA program at UofL. Their company has just launched its first product, BlackTop.

UofL-born tech startup launches first product

University of Louisville-born construction technology startup, MetaConstruction Technologies LLC, has launched its first product. The product, BlackTop, is a software platform that lets asphalt contractors...