In 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers made waves in the worlds of biology and medicine, revealing they had five examples of human embryonic stem cells — biological building blocks at the foundation of cellular development …
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UW Med School Leads the Way in Commercializing Research
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were …
UW–Madison Among Schools Producing the Most Startups
As college students across the country settle in to another semester of classes, America’s next generation of entrepreneurs are getting the wisdom and tools they need to one day launch the next hit startup. Of …
UW researchers, students partner with with local brewing company
Nowadays many people don’t enjoy their beer warm, but for most of the past couple thousand years, warm beer was the norm, according to Kirby Nelson, a brewmaster at the Wisconsin Brewing Company. After all, …
Study Names Madison Among Top Tech Towns
Madison is No. 14 among the top 20 “tech towns” in the United States, a study by CompTIA says. “This college town is making significant strides toward becoming a center for technology,” says the report, …
UW entrepreneurial pipeline lands Lactic Solutions in biofuels marketplace
When Jim Steele thinks back over the last seven years, from the early research on biofuels, followed by a dream of moving Lactic Solutions LLC technology to the marketplace, and now the acquisition of the …