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Profiles
2024 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Award winners
Three honored for innovation, entrepreneurial excellence This week, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of the Chancellor, in partnership with the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association, recognized Mark Bakken, James Dahlberg, and Dorri McWhorter as recipients …
Student Entrepreneur Profile: Maya Galpern
Entrepreneurship can open up a world of possibilities, and that is what we can see from Maya Galpern, a sophomore at UW-Madison with a sweet tooth. While Maya didn’t always envision herself as an entrepreneur, …
Alumni Spotlight: ImmutoScientific
“The initial vision was always to develop new therapeutics to help patients especially for diseases that there were no treatments for, some of the more intractable diseases that pharmaceutical companies haven’t figured out a cure …
Student Entrepreneur Profile: Andrew Shaw
Andrew Shaw, a student at UW-Madison, did not originally see himself as an entrepreneur. Originally as a pre-med major, he navigated through personal finance, nursing, and eventually found his passion for accounting at the Wisconsin …
Snow Scholars prepare for winter storms
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – With snow forecasted for Tuesday, one University of Wisconsin-Madison student business is prepared to help. Snow Scholars is a snow shoveling business founded by UW-Madison students. They serve other students, as …
Worth a Thousand Words: My Home Stars
Joel Baraka ’22 realized early the profound difference education can make in a person’s life. Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he grew up in Uganda’s Kyangwali Refugee Camp. While there, he experienced …
Student Entrepreneur Profile: Nick Hruskoci
“I grew up in a golfing family. Our neighbors gave us their putting green and I remember my brother and I begging our mom to keep it in our basement so we could play,” recalls …
Alumni Spotlight: HappiCo
It all began with a Belgian waffle, a seemingly humble origin for HappiCo, a company founded by Sam Rockwell (CEO), Justin Samuels (COO) and Jeremy Reich (Chief Strategy Officer), all graduates of the Wisconsin School …
Research beyond Waisman Center: Discoveries that have spun into products
Multiple discoveries born from the minds and hard work of Waisman Center investigators have left the nest to become successful companies or products that have had a significant impact in the world through translational research. …