Read more about 1789.A home for entrepreneurial-minded Tar Heels, 1789 is Carolina's central hub of innovation. The program serves as a community of mentors and students and provides professional development opportunities for our students, who will soon be leaders in the workforce.
Innovation at Carolina
A campus of innovators
Every day, Tar Heels are looking for new ways to make an impact on the world. The team at UNC Blue Sky Innovations works with media companies using artificial intelligence and virtual reality to solve challenging problems. Andrew Satterlee, a brain cancer survivor himself, is leading the quest for personalized cancer treatment at the Eshelman Institute for Innovation.
Carolina students are using 3D printing to make free prosthetic devices for children. TIME magazine recently recognized Gillings School of Global Public Health Innovation Fellow Nabarun Dasgupta as a rising world leader for easing access to naloxone and testing street drugs.
Innovation is all around us at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Keep reading to learn about how Tar Heels innovate.
- No. 6most innovative university in the world (Reuters).
- $18.4 billionin revenue earned by Carolina startups (2022).
- 939Carolina startups since 1958.
- No. 12in entrepreneurshp education (U.S. News and World Report).
- 129active Carolina social ventures (July 2022).
- $19.2 billiontotal startup funding raised since 1958.
Innovate Carolina
As the University-wide initiative for innovation and entrepreneurship, Innovate Carolina is helping students and faculty and staff members quickly turn ideas into real-world solutions that can better the world and strengthen the economy.
With a mission of ensuring that Carolina is a place where innovators thrive, Innovate Carolina offers a variety of tools and services, including a resource directory, technology commercialization, patent landscaping and investor programs.
Read more about the nonprofit.As a Carolina undergraduate, entrepreneur Nehemiah Stewart in 2020 launched a nonprofit aimed at building a hiring pipeline for diverse students.
Within three years, Level the Playing Field has recruited approximately 50 students from six North Carolina universities to participate in a year-long cohort.
Hear from Innovate Carolina's Sheryl Waddell on the importance of the Junction.The Innovate Carolina Junction, which opened in the spring, is located at 137 E. Franklin St.
Connecting innovation at Carolina with the Chapel Hill and Research Triangle community, the Junction will serve as the anchor for a developing innovation district that aims to keep startups created at Carolina in Chapel Hill.