Following the success of MadPrompts 2023, the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt battle on an American university campus, WARF and the UW-Madison Data Science Institute (DSI) hosted MadPrompts 2024 on October 18 in the …
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“Startup Advantage” offers user-friendly experience to university innovators
A better and faster user experience is the goal of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s new program called “Startup Advantage.” The initiative includes a standardized license agreement offering consistent royalty terms for University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Wisconsin’s biohealth industry saw $22B direct economic impact in 2023
A report from BioForward Wisconsin shows that Wisconsin’s biohealth industry had a roughly $22 billion direct economic impact across the state last year, according to WisBusiness. The data comes from the Madison-based group’s recently published …
How Wet is America’s Soil? Nobody Really Knows, But AI Can Help
From sudden floods to weeks of scorching heat, increasingly unstable weather is a headache for U.S. farmers. Known as “weather whiplash,” these disorienting swings between too much rain and not enough — from inundations to …
Wisconsin Technology Council: It’s 100 years young: WARF’s future topic for chief exec Iverson’s keynote at Early Stage Symposium
Erik Iverson, chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will join Tech Council President Tom Still for a Nov. 13 keynote conversation to launch the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium. The conference will be held in-person at the …
Engineered additive makes low-cost renewable energy storage a possibility
Solar and wind are quickly transforming the energy landscape—but if we are to realize the full potential of these intermittent, renewable energy sources, we’ll need safe, affordable batteries capable of storing it. As part of …
RISE-AI gets $15 million boost from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will commit $15 million over the next three years to extend the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s strength in artificial intelligence research and education by supporting the university’s Research, Innovation and …
WARF announces 2025 support for UW-Madison research
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced $159.8 million of total support in the academic year ending in 2025 for University of Wisconsin-Madison research. The support includes a three-year, $15 million grant to …
UW-Madison biomedical engineers win Collegiate Inventors Competition
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Lauren Fitzsimmons and recent graduates Molly Paras (BSBME ’24) and Zach Spears (BSBME ’24) won first place in the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Alexandria, Virginia. The group’s “Nerve Ninja” earned …
SHINE Technologies Collaborates with University of Wisconsin-Madison and WARF Therapeutics to Create Promising New Treatments for Kidney and Prostate Cancers
SHINE Technologies, a next-generation fusion company, and WARF Therapeutics, a drug discovery program by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), today announced promising pre-clinical research results from collaborative efforts with Advanced Radiotheranostics Lab at the University …