University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers are working with Madison-area manufacturers, the design consulting firm Delve, and campus colleagues on a product to help meet urgent and growing demand for medical face shields — key pieces of …
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Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic wins WEDC award to support rural entrepreneurs
The Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at University of Wisconsin Law School has been awarded $50,000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to support entrepreneurship in rural Wisconsin. At the L&E Clinic, new businesses get …
Supporting pillows and boosting gelato: Rural entrepreneurs get free legal help from UW Law School
Ryan Del Balso had quit his job and was planning to buy an RV with his wife, travel around the country and road school their children. When his wife received an unexpected diagnosis that prevented …
Biotech startups share space, services at Madison’s Forward BIOLABS
After Tobias Zutz raised $900,000 for Gregor Diagnostics, his Madison startup developing a new test for prostate cancer, he didn’t want to spend a big chunk of the money on lab equipment right away. He …
Madison VR company focusing on tech for 2 groups: school kids and military personnel
Noted: Holos is a UW–Madison spinout. A Madison-based company developing virtual reality software has two current objectives: make classroom lessons more engaging for kids and train military mechanics in aircraft maintenance. The two ideas seem …
Starting Up: Company started at UW-Madison hopes to make paint production greener
Faux leather, latex paints, adhesives, no-chip nail polish — all of these and more are made with a key ingredient that’s made from petroleum and comes at a high price point, but a Madison-based startup …
UW students win award to create augmented reality glasses
Google Glass, the wearable technology that debuted in 2013 and fizzled out in 2015, was one of the most divisive pieces of tech in the last decade. Some people found the augmented reality glasses creepy, …
Quality Control: Melissa Skala and her team are going all in
Emerging cell therapies are giving hope to cancer patients. But to guide the process new analytical tools are desperately needed. Melissa Skala and her team are going all in. There was a time when biomedical …
Inside Entrepreneurship: Wisconsin School of Business Leads in Research and Startup Support
The burgeoning Midwestern city of Madison, Wisconsin, appears in headlines touting top tech hubs with increasing frequency. Over the past five years, rankings from Forbes, Inc., and the Brookings Institution, among others, have all placed …