Even as venture capital flowing to female founders has surged over the past decade, the startups reaching billion-dollar valuations remain overwhelmingly led by men.  

  Published on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 The University of Chicago, in partnership with seven other leading Midwestern universities, today announced the launch of Third Coast Foundry, a new San Francisco–based hub designed to strengthen the collective presence of Midwest research institutions in one of the world’s most active venture ecosystems. The initiative creates a...

Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world. It’s an effort to reconnect them to the bodily experience of learning, she said, and to keep them...