Jewelry is all about the details and no one knows better than Adina Locketz, a freshman at UW-Madison, who is majoring in Fine Arts with a concentration in Jewelry and Metal Art and pursuing a …
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Entrepreneurs pare their pitches at the 2024 Elevator Pitch Olympics
A Madison-based technology company aimed at reducing the soaring burden of medical debt is the winner of the 2024 Elevator Pitch Olympics. My Coverage Plan, a subsidiary of the nonprofit public-interest law firm ABC for …
Light-trapping metasurface tech boosts biosensors
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers has developed a thin, patterned, silicon-based component that excels at trapping non-visible light and could open up low-cost manufacturing possibilities for biochemical sensors and more. The group, …
3D-printing breakthrough mitigates three defects simultaneously for failure-free metal parts
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have found a way to simultaneously mitigate three types of defects in parts produced using a prominent additive manufacturing technique called laser powder bed fusion. Led by Lianyi Chen, an associate …
InsideWis: Early stage capital scene in Wisconsin benefiting from more players
There was a time not long ago when early stage investors in Wisconsin could meet in a studio apartment kitchen or a telephone booth (back when there were still telephone booths). Today, such a gathering …
InsideWis: Early stage capital scene in Wisconsin benefiting from more players
There was a time not long ago when early stage investors in Wisconsin could meet in a studio apartment kitchen or a telephone booth (back when there were still telephone booths). Today, such a gathering …
The Larry Meiller Show: Active ingredient in Tylenol can be made from trees rather than petroleum
This Larry Meiller Show (Wisconsin Public Radio) episode includes a segment on how pain relief medicine and other products can be made from poplar trees UW-Madison scientists have discovered. Leading researcher Steven Karlen explains how …
Near future could include ambient computing, pain medicine made from plants
In this episode, The Larry Miller Show talk about the pros and cons of ambient computing with Beth D’Angelo, a UW-Madison IT specialist. Then, UW-Madison researcher Steven Karlen explains his team’s new method of making …
Investor Connect 806: Mike Partsch on Investing in Wellness at WARF
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Mike Partsch, Chief Venture Officer at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Mike discusses the mission of WARF Ventures and its unique approach to investing in startups …
MadPrompts 2024 highlights generative AI during Wisconsin Science Festival
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 …