Study suggests response times and cardiac arrest survival rates could greatly improve by rethinking existing technology. When a heart stops, survival rates fall with every passing minute. A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher thinks minutes and …
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The board game getting kids excited about school
Going to school in a refugee camp can be complicated: students encounter crowded classrooms, rigid curricula and limited access to teachers. Joel Baraka, who grew up in the Kyangwali refugee camp in Uganda, is determined …
How UW-Madison’s Collaborative Innovation Culture Helped OnLume Blend Science With Business
The genesis of OnLume’s revolutionary fluorescence-guided surgery technology stemmed from the desire to bring fluorescence imaging out of the dark, literally. Only in that way, in the ambient light of the operating room (OR), could …
WSB’s Joan Schmit and Creative Destruction Lab Featured on Badger Talks Live
Joan Schmit, professor of risk and insurance and the American Family Insurance Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business, was a featured guest on a recent Badger Talks Live …
UW–Madison increases research expenditures by $16 million, retains top 10 research institution ranking
The National Science Foundation has released its 2021 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison has again ranked eighth in the national research rankings for public and private …
Growing number of UW System campuses installing opioid overdose kits
Six universities placing Nalox-ZONE boxes in dormitories, recreation centers and health offices As opioid deaths surge in Wisconsin, a growing number of universities are making the overdose reversal drug naloxone publicly available in dormitories and …
From startup city to exit city
When former Madison Magazine editor Brennan Nardi started this column in 2016, she called it Startup City. It was a nod to a book with a similar name, as well as feature stories she’d written …
New approach could push limits of immunotherapy for difficult-to-treat cancers
Cancerous tumors that aren’t candidates for surgery or chemotherapy sometimes respond well to alternatives like immunotherapy, but even cutting-edge cancer treatments that harness the immune system have their limits. A recent study by researchers at …
Wisconsin startups build success
Young companies in Wisconsin are drawing an increasing amount of financial backing, generating more income and ramping up their hiring. More than 800 companies that received support from WEDC’s entrepreneurship and innovation programs over the …
$650,000 in state matching grants advance 7 innovative small businesses
Seven small businesses in Wisconsin will receive up to $650,000 to commercialize their innovations, thanks to the SBIR Advance program’s latest round of funding. The Phase 1 recipients, each receiving up to $75,000 match, are: …