As society embraces maximum convenience, UW alumni are transforming the business of on-demand dining. In 2012, Doug Hamaker ’10 and Henry Aschauer ’10 opened Roast Public House with a fresh vision for the campus end …
Profiles
Alum’s Startup Makes it Easier to Source Locally
It is tacit knowledge among Badgers that our state plays a critical role in food production and Wisconsin products are likely to be found in refrigerators across the country. Even those who have never set …
Starting Up While Staying In
Matt Burzec, a first year UW-Madison student living in the StartUp Learning Community, certainly knows how to make lemons out of lemonade—or at least how to build a thriving customized sneakers business in the face …
Reflecting on the First Year as Academic Director
Martin Ganco, the Robert Pricer Chair in Enterprise Development, has recently completed his first year as Academic Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. When asked what he enjoyed most about his first year in …
From Biking Around Town to a National Brand: an Interview with Jack Pawlik, Former Transcend Competitor
My name is Jack Pawlik, and I am originally from Minneapolis, but moved onto campus in Madison right after my high-school graduation. I was a business major at UW, although school has always been the …
Innovator Profile: Dr. Guelay Bilen-Rosas
Guelay Bilen-Rosas is the director of Pediatric Transplant Anesthesia at UW Health and an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine and Public Health, focusing on pediatric transplant and airway management. The research …
Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Maya Warren
For a lifelong dairy aficionado, where else could Dr. Maya Warren have been more at home than the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW)? When Dr. Warren graduated from UW with her Ph.D. in Food Science, she …
Local Startup Spotlight: DataChat with Co-Founder Rogers Jeffrey Leo John
DataChat was founded by UW-Madison computer sciences professor Jignesh Patel, a serial entrepreneur for whom the startup is his fourth, and Ph.D. student Rogers Jeffrey Leo John (WAVE ’18 and MEB ’18) back in June …
Madison is home to one of the world’s top virologists
Yoshihiro Kawaoka is studying COVID-19 at his posts at UW–Madison and the University of Tokyo. When Yoshihiro Kawaoka first came to the United States in the summer of 1983 to work on influenza viruses, the …
Falling into Entrepreneurship
Dr. Sylvestra Ramirez ’05 had no idea a childhood injury would propel her toward a path and passion for physical therapy. Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ramirez thought her calling was figure skating and did …