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 …
Profiles
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.
Business & Entrepreneurship Clinic Success Story: Share the Health
The Business & Entrepreneurship (B&E) Clinic likes to follow up with former clients to see how their business has done in the time since consultation has ended. Recently we were able to connect with the …
Getting to know D2P
Bringing your dream to market is hard work. Navigating resources shouldn’t be. An interview with Discovery to Product (D2P) director Andrew Richards about leading the redesigned D2P program at UW–Madison, which is working to build …
UW Alum featured in Forbes for Social Entrepreneurship
Read how Georges Clement, cofounder of the nonprofit JustFix.nyc, works as an advocate helping to empower New York City tenants.