Excitement is building for the 2023 WARF Innovation Awards! The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has nominated six outstanding UW-Madison technologies for its top prize in innovation, with the two winning teams set to be unveiled …
Events
Socks, Cardboard and Water Bottles: The 100-Hour Challenge helps students turn small, dorm room items into big ideas
From November 9-13, 2023, the StartUp Learning Community hosted its annual 100-Hour Challenge, a signature innovation contest, popular with undergraduates and graduate students alike. The purpose of the fully virtual Challenge is to help participants discover …
Madison startup harnessing quantum sensors wins Wisconsin Tech Council’s Pitch Olympics
A Madison startup building quantum sensors to help the mining industry accurately locate rare-earth metals like copper, nickel and cobalt won the Wisconsin Technology Council’s recent Elevator Pitch Olympics. The startup, Dirac Labs, was among …
Move Your Tech out of Academia Recap!
On September 28th the Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) in partnership with Discovery to Product (D2P) hosted an event called Moving Your Tech Out Of Academia during UW Innovate Week. At this lunch & learn, …
Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Showcase
If there was one thing the three panelists, who were invited to participate in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Showcase event, made clear is that working in startups means choosing passion. The Showcase event, which took place …
New UW-Madison app designed to make happier, healthier cows
A new cow pen created by a UW–Madison researcher includes a feed bunk, salt blocks and beds of sand on which the animals can lounge between milkings. Only the pen isn’t on a plot of …
UW–Madison project combines art, policy and science to create plant-based plastics and benefit marginalized communities
A team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars has a plan to turn paper mill waste into plant-based plastics, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and creating economic opportunities in ways that benefit marginalized …
Awards showcase Wisconsin’s breadth of innovation
The powerful thread of innovation that runs through nine Wisconsin organizations doing groundbreaking work was recognized at the 2023 Wisconsin Innovation Awards in Madison on Oct. 10. The nine winners, representing companies, products, and nonprofits, …
35 hospital and health system chief innovation officers to know | 2023
Becker’s Healthcare is delighted to honor 35 hospital and health system chief innovation officers. In the current age of accelerated digital transformation, chief innovation officers ensure that their hospitals and health systems remain on the …
Stem Pharm and Verge Genomics Form Collaboration Focused on Parkinson’s Disease
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stem Pharm, Inc., a drug discovery platform company leveraging 3D neuro-immune organoids and Verge Genomics, a biotechnology company transforming drug discovery using artificial intelligence (AI) and patient …