The Wisconsin Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) [and member of the UW-Madison Innovate Network] has received a prestigious award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for achieving significant economic impact in advancing small technology …
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UW-Madison student creates educational board game to ‘light the star’ in refugee children
Shaped by his experience growing up and getting his education in a refugee camp in Uganda, UW-Madison student Joel Baraka spent years developing a way to help children back home learn in a fun and …
UW Spinout DataChat one of Wisconsin Inno’s “21 Startups to Watch”
DATACHAT This Madison company, founded in 2017, developed an intelligence interface that allows business users to extract insight from their data simply by talking to a chatbot. DataChat was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Rock County medical isotope companies mark milestones
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, one of two Rock County companies developing radioactive isotopes for medical imaging and therapies, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its new method of making a key isotope that …
Varsity Venture Studio Update
The recently-launched Varsity Venture Studio is a pilot program and collaboration among UW-Madison, WARF and High Alpha Innovation. This university-wide venture studio received over 150 idea submissions from across campus this fall, and 18 ideas …
Innovator Profile: Dr. Guelay Bilen-Rosas
Guelay Bilen-Rosas is the director of Pediatric Transplant Anesthesia at UW Health and an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine and Public Health, focusing on pediatric transplant and airway management. The research …
Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Maya Warren
For a lifelong dairy aficionado, where else could Dr. Maya Warren have been more at home than the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW)? When Dr. Warren graduated from UW with her Ph.D. in Food Science, she …
Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch Program Offers Students an Important Pipeline to Network
The fall semester saw the return of an event that has become a fixture in programming over the years: the [Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship] Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch. While students were no longer able to congregate …
At UW-Madison, contactless thermometer helps monitor student health
When Lennon Rodgers visited the dentist in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, he had a moment of inspiration. The receptionist awkwardly reached around the plexiglass barrier to take his temperature, which seemed to negate …
UW researchers honored as inventors
Three University of Wisconsin–Madison professors — Charles Mistretta, Denise Ney and Ann Palmenberg — have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. NAI fellowship honors academic inventors who have “demonstrated a spirit of …