From networking, to funding, to hiring top talent and everything in-between, an increasing number of biohealth startups are calling the Badger State home. In America’s heartland, a quiet transformation is underway. Amidst the rolling plains …
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UW unveils intellectual property models to build industry partnerships
From new options for cancer diagnosis and treatment, to improved wireless communications, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are developing game-changing innovations for the marketplace with the support of industry partners. But fostering these industry-university …
New federal spending bills to boost UW–Madison research initiatives
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is set to receive more than $56 million in new funding for research initiatives after the passage of two federal appropriations packages. The set of bipartisan bills, signed into law by …
Proposed changes to Bayh-Dole Act stir controversy over innovation, growth in university research
WARF public affairs analyst says university researchers may become ‘collateral damage’ under proposal. Democratic members of the U.S. Congress are leading an effort to change the way federal agencies enforce the Bayh-Dole Act. This 1980 …
Q&A with Prof. Steffi Diem, a UW–Madison fusion scientist and 2024 U.S. Science Envoy
Steffi Diem, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of nuclear engineering and engineering physics, has been selected to serve as a U.S. Science Envoy for the Department of State in 2024. The federal program empowers leading …
Qin secures I-Corps funding for in-space printing tech
Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps grant to support his lab’s work developing a portable electrohydrodynamic inkjet …