Most startup founders weren’t born being business-savvy professionals. Those skills are often nurtured during college. And a new list published Monday that ranks the higher-ed programs producing the most VC-backed startup founders includes a Wisconsin institution. …
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A New Study On Fortune 100 CEOs: The (Surprising) Undergraduate Institutions They Attended
What does it take to become the CEO of one of the 100 largest U.S. firms? More specifically, where do they come from, and does the undergraduate alma mater matter?
New UW–Madison school sets emphasis on computing, data fields
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has established a School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) in the College of Letters & Science to strengthen research and education on campus, prepare tech-savvy graduates to fill new …
StartingBlock unveils ‘last piece of the puzzle’ with larger, later-stage startups
Fifteen months after its opening, the Madison entrepreneurship center StartingBlock has announced that it will soon have “the last piece of the puzzle” in place: a previously empty floor occupied by six of the city’s …
UW Researchers Develop Camera That Can ‘See’ Around Corners
Technology Could Have Impact On Everything From Surgery To Defense And Disaster Relief Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain have developed a new kind of virtual camera that …
Professor finding new ways to improve medical imaging
A professor at UW-Madison is developing new methods for reducing errors in CT scans, MRIs and other imaging techniques. Guang-Hong Chen is a medical physics specialist at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research with a …
AIQ Solutions of Madison raises $3.2 million for cancer treatment assessment software
A Madison company that makes software approved to gauge treatment response in breast and prostate cancer patients plans to submit a second product, for blood cancers, for approval by early next year. AIQ Solutions, which …
UW Earns Grant to Build Opioid Relapse App
The University of Wisconsin announced recently that it received a $3.42 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an app to prevent opioid relapses. The goal of the project is to …
Pressure Chamber contest returns at 10th annual Forward Festival
The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s business pitch competition, Pressure Chamber, will be returning this year with five companies focused on very different ventures — chemical-free toiletries, political purchasing, solar energy, cancer surgery and 3-D …
Two campus spinouts achieve major milestones
AIQ Solutions was formed by UW Madison researchers who pioneered methods to quantitatively assess changes in cancerous bone lesions in response to cancer treatment. On campus, they received early support from Discovery to Product’s Igniter …