With support from the UW-Madison International Projects Office, graduate student Rebecca Alcock is playing a leading role in a large-scale, United Nations-backed effort to mobilize production of personal protective equipment (PPE) and more in developing …
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Focus Forward Podcast: The Power of a Tech Ecosystem with Aaron Olver
In the latest episode of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Focus Forward podcast, Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes speaks with Aaron Olver, managing director of University Research Park. They discuss the state’s technology ecosystem and …
Schools boost demand for face shields designed by UW engineers
A team of UW-Madison engineers and local manufacturers is working together again to improve PPE options for health care workers. But their new face shield is also in high demand with schools across the country …
School of Business Hosts The Entrepreneur’s Playbook Webinar
The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike any public health or economic disruption we have ever faced. Entrepreneurs are being forced to navigate new and ever-changing business challenges. In a new webinar series from the Wisconsin School …
‘Hands-on’ makerspace summer series reaches students remotely
In late spring 2020, the engineers who run the University of Wisconsin-Madison Makerspace began contemplating how to continue delivering the facility’s signature hands-on seminars and activities to students who were now learning at a distance. …
Tiny mineral particles are better vehicles for promising gene therapy
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed a safer and more efficient way to deliver a promising new method for treating cancer and liver disorders and for vaccination — including a COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Therapeutics …
UW–Madison and UW Health quickly launch a number of COVID-19 clinical trials
As the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was deemed a pandemic, research institutions across the United States rapidly shifted focus to studies aimed at understanding the virus and finding treatments. The University …
Morgridge Institute for Research investigates methods to control COVID-19 and future pandemic
Virologists at the Morgridge Institute for Research are investigating the biology of viruses and their diseases in order to develop powerful new methods to not only control COVID-19 but stem the next pandemic. According to …
Nine projects selected for UW/WARF COVID-19 Accelerator Challenge
$100K fund to accelerate solutions being developed by UW–Madison researchers MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced that nine highly deployable projects have been selected to receive development funding through the UW/WARF COVID-19 …
Entrepreneurons explores Wisconsin’s food supply chain during the COVID-19 crisis
MADISON, Wis. – How can Wisconsin producers, distributors and retailers be effective in our COVID-19 world and what we can leverage to be at the forefront of addressing the many challenges? Join Pam Jahnke, the …