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 …
Profiles
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 …
Vegan dessert with an unexpected ingredient places second in national food development competition
Delicious desserts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of chickpeas, but a team of UW–Madison food science students are whipping up a plan to change that. Recent graduate …
UW Changes Lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy
What started as a side project in a laboratory in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry is now a successful Wisconsin startup that’s closer than ever to giving women a way to easily track …
Meet the innovators leading WARF’s new Therapeutics and Ventures programs
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) announced two key new additions to their team this year. Seasoned medical device venture capitalist and startup CEO Mike Partsch is WARF’s new Chief Venture officer, and Jon Young …
Madison’s Blexx Technology Takes the Sting Out of Hypodermic Needle Disposal
Noted: What started out as a passion project for Erin Tenderholt as a sophomore business student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon became a business with Blexx Technology. Now in her senior year, Tenderholt is …
UW-Madison spinoff Atrility’s device improves pediatric heart rhythm monitoring
The mother of invention visited Nicholas Von Bergen while he was caring for a newborn in the pediatric intensive care unit at American Family Children’s Hospital. Without the recent heart surgery, the infant faced a …
UW alum masterminding next generation data storage: A solution to the datapocalypse?
CATALOG, a Boston company co-founded by a recent UW–Madison Ph.D., is preparing to demonstrate the world’s fastest, densest DNA-based data-warehouse.