The Business & Entrepreneurship (B&E) Clinic stands out as a program that offers free business advice and services to Wisconsin-based small businesses and entrepreneurs. Established in August of 2013, the clinic, funded by the Wisconsin …
UW spinouts
It’s Electric
Kyoung-Shin Choi’s approach to science is both simple and straightforward. When she sees an environmental problem, she just wants to fix it. Even when it’s not in her direct field of expertise. The professor of …
175th Anniversary: UW research spans the globe
At Alumni Park, University of Wisconsin–Madison students past, present and future stop to take pictures of the lines radiating from a Numen Lumen seal set into the sidewalk. One line notes the exact distance — …
Student Entrepreneur Profile: Jude Joerger
“I realized that there was this bottleneck that other people were facing. There is trash and recycling pickup but why was there no composting pickup? Especially when it is so much better than putting all …
From Ideas to Collaboration
On Monday, February 5, The Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship, INSITE, Startup Learning Community and Transcend came together to host an event, inviting entrepreneurial-driven students to attend Winning Ways, a workshop to learn about the different …
Programming cells to organize their molecules may open the door to new treatments
Researchers can engineer cells to express new genes and produce specific proteins, giving the cells new parts to work with. But, it’s much harder to provide cells with instructions on how to organize and use …
Spring is for Social: Second Semester in the StartUp Learning Community
During spring semester, residents of the StartUp Learning Community—a residence hall-based group of 64 self-selected first year students who are interested in entrepreneurship—can register to take the super popular seminar course, MHR 321: Social Entrepreneurship. …
Essential Topics explains the process of working with WARF
Have you ever wondered how an idea from a UW-Madison lab becomes a life-changing product? The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has produced a series of videos – WARF Essential Topics – intended to help you …
Mineral coatings could enable shelf-stable mRNA therapies
A protective mineral coating identified by University of Wisconsin–Madison biomedical engineering researchers could allow powerful messenger RNA therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines to be stored at room temperature, making them more accessible to lower-resourced communities across …
Trends in tech startups can be spotted in Biz Plan Contest entries
I could call the Governor’s Business Plan Contest a canary in the coal mine of entrepreneurship in Wisconsin, but coal mines are out of favor these days so perhaps the more apt analogy is a …