Twenty-nine million people have Type 2 Diabetes, and eighty-four million people are prediabetic in the United States. The US economy spends around $327 million annually on treatment and care for this disease. Additionally, Diabetes is the leading cau...

"When all my friends were applying to college in their senior year, I was really sick. I was misdiagnosed all throughout high school, and doctors didn't know what was wrong with me," Elizabeth Tikoyan, founder of Riley, provides con...

If you have ever traveled to parts of Europe, South America, or Asia, you probably have encountered a bidet. Bidets are used in these cultures to provide a more hygienic way to clean yourself after you use the bathroom. Many people across the world a...

It has been nearly impossible for collegiate athletes to earn money for their talents and expertise due to extremely regulated NCAA policies. However, Jared Vishno (Col '20) and Grant Sirlin (Col '20) found a way to make it possible with thei...

"The problem I identified was that travel planning was really hard," Amanda Joseph (Darden '19) explains the dilemma she faced while trying to plan a trip. "There was just so much information out there. It was difficult to know wha...

Wilson Hunter is a self-proclaimed “huge nerd.” He enjoys playing and streaming live card games, but has always been disappointed by the streaming services available online. Wilson and his co-founder, James Hsu, created CardBoard Live to ...

In 1957, the very first form of Virtual Reality (VR) was introduced to the world. Recently, the field has exploded with new technologies created to enhance user experience with VR. BraveX, founded by William Kodama (Engr ’21), Dhyey Parikh (Eng...

“No one wanted to lose, so the games got heated," Molly Shields (Col '20), co-founder of UBall, explains growing up with three brothers. "For years we played 2 vs. 2 games that were extremely competitive." Growing up in a spo...

In 2018, approximately one child died each week from vehicular heatstroke. This tragedy is what Tomeka Carroll (SEAS ‘22) set out to solve with her company, Heartbeat.  Heartbeat is a device compatible with any car seat that helps busy, di...

"She was a superstar field hockey player, a forward, scored all of our goals." Alexa Guittari, the CEO of Flexadyne, describes one of her teammates who suffered an ACL injury. "She was finally able to play her junior spring again, but ...

Today is the 66th day of the iLab summer incubator, the Demo Day and conclusion of the program. But before all 23 teams from the 2018 cohort gather their progress together for a presentation tonight for Demo Day (registration can be found h...

Microsoft recently released an interview with Principal Researcher Antonio Criminisi, one of the leaders of Microsoft’s ongoing InnerEye project using “machine learning [...] for the quantitative analysis of 3D radiological images.”...

“We didn't want to reinvent the wheel -- we wanted to make it better,” says Greg Pitsenberger, a founding member of VIAble Ventures. VIAble Ventures is ‘improving the wheel’ by “creating a program designed for many lev...

Lyon McCandless, founder of geedunk, a sustainability-based packaged food company, and Good Crickets, a cricket farming operation, first discovered the tastiness of insects after a trip where she had the opportunity to try some. “I took a trip...

Art has been central to the lives of Emma Hitchcock and Zadie Lacy, founders of Art for the Heart. “We’re both very involved with art,” says Emma. “We use it as a way to de-stress and relax. We thought that providing the homel...

Recently, food prep and delivery services such as Blue Apron have become popular as alternatives to the traditional grocery shopping trip. Blue Apron mails a kit with ingredients and a recipe to your doorstep in order to “enjoy delicious, unfor...

Eczema is a skin condition that inflames the skin, causing rashes and other adverse effects. Eczema affects over 30 million Americans, according to the National Eczema Association. Christina Fortune is one of those Americans suffering from eczema. ...

“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” - written note in the margins of Prose Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson from John Muir, famed naturalist and conservationist “My early science education was ...

Of the almost 8 million high school students who currently compete on their school teams, only 480,000 of them, or approximately 16.7%, continue to compete in college. And according to the NCAA, or National Collegiate Athletic Association, which runs...

Kartini Chocolate is “a premium bean-to-bar chocolate company featuring Indonesian dark chocolate while also empowering women and bettering the lives of Indonesian cocoa bean farmers,” states Kartini Chocolate founder Nagea Delaya. &ldquo...

Young people are afraid of investing. A Harris poll released in 2016 showed that almost 80% of millennials are not investing in the stock market, missing out on the potential benefits that come with compounding interest by investing early on. Additio...

The average salary of a US public school teacher for 2016-17 was $59,660. While that number is up 2% from the 2015-16 year, the National Education Association has reported that “after adjusting for inflation, public school [teacher salaries] ha...

Premature births accounted for approximately 10% of births in 2016, according to the CDC. These infants, who usually are also underweight, are most at risk, having a 17% fatality rate in 2015. This group of premature infants requires the utmost care...

“We all love to eat… but we don’t all love to eat the same things.” This is the opening sentence for the “About” page of Simili, a service to help people plan social events. “Simili began in part because I&r...

In 1916, the National Park Service was signed into existence by President Woodrow Wilson to coalesce the protection and management of national parks and monuments under a single federal organization. One hundred years later in 2016, Darius Nabors and...