Updates from iQ

When Jennifer Byrne looks out the window of her light-filled office at 525@vine in the Innovation Quarter, she sees more than landscaping and buildings. She sees more than doctors, students and faculty as they walk by. What she sees is the future of clinical research.…

Fay Horwitt, a member of Flywheel Coworking since 2015, likes to wander. The Winston-Salem native has lived as far away as Hawaii, working as marketing manager for the YWCA of O’ahu. Moving back to Winston-Salem in 2015, she discovered that Flywheel’s new home in the…

In the nearly five years since I came to Winston-Salem, there is little doubt that I have uttered the word “innovation” more than any other word in the English language. I can hardly escape it. It even appears twice in my dual title—president of Wake…

They come in the form of yogis, with mats in tow and fresh-pressed juices in hand. Some wear backpacks, some suits, others lab coats, all lined up in the food truck court during lunch hour. Sometimes they’re dancers, musicians, artists and the crowds who gather to…

Albert Hall contains a confluence of surprising occupants. The red-brick building with neat rows of windows across each floor was originally one of several downtown Winston-Salem factories erected by R.J. Reynolds to meet surging demand for Prince Albert tobacco and Camel cigarettes. And when R.J.…

One of the great experiences of the human condition is the opportunity to see a vision come to fruition. Often we dream about things that could be, but it is difficult to match the exhilaration that comes from watching what was once the hope for…