When Soyeon Shim was young, she wanted to be a teacher. “I’d come home and gather all the kids in the neighborhood and play like we were at school and I was the teacher,” she …
Profiles
Innovation: Who benefits and who’s barred?
By Clare Becker In 1886, Shelbyville, Illinois resident Josephine Cochran noticed her dishes were getting chipped from constantly washing them by hand. Female patent holders were few and far between back then, but that didn’t …
Partnership fosters entrepreneurship that has social impact
Entrepreneurship can be measured in more than just financial success, says the leader of an effort to incorporate solving social problems into entrepreneurial ventures in UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product program.
Big Data Wranglers
From computer vision to cloud computing, CALS scientists are finding ways to gather and analyze massive amounts of information for better farm management.
Researchers using advanced imaging to detect blight in potatoes
Researchers in the WARF Accelerator program are using advanced imaging technology to detect late blight in potatoes, which famously led to the Irish potato famine in the mid-nineteenth century. In a recent interview, program manager …
Max Fergus disrupts the mainstream music industry with a new streaming app
Max Fergus (BBA ’18) still has the screenshot of the text conversation in which he pitched the idea of a startup to his friends. He didn’t know at the time that that text conversation marked …
Get to know incoming Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business Vallabh Sambamurthy
In January, Vallabh “Samba” Sambamurthy was appointed the next Albert O. Nicholas Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business. He most recently had been associate dean of the MBA and professional master’s programs at the …
A coworking champion looks into becoming a coworking space founder
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth column in a series about UpStart, a free entrepreneurship program for women and people of color supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF. For almost 20 years, …
Lessons of conventional imaging let scientists see around corners
Along with flying and invisibility, high on the list of every child’s aspirational superpowers is the ability to see through or around walls or other visual obstacles. That capability is now a big step closer …
In the Spotlight: Kristen Slack, founder of Prof2Prof
Prof2Prof started as a midnight inspiration. Kristen Slack, a social work professor at UW-Madison, literally bought the domain prof2prof.com in the middle of the night after reading a New York Times article about an e-commerce …