In many ways, spring semester 2022 showed a return to normalcy on the StartUp Learning Community floor in Sellery Hall. Despite ongoing renovations (the building is going to look spectacular come fall of 2023), the …
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WAVE: Developing a Resilient Class of Future Entrepreneurs
This semester, 27 students blending a range of MBA specializations and other graduate disciplines formed teams within the Weinert Center to explore and develop business ideas. Each team brought a unique combination of experience and …
Transcend 2022 Innovation Competition
On April 22, 2022 in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), the first in-person Transcend Innovation Competition in two years finally began! After many months of diligent planning from the Transcend Team, UW-Madison students arrived …
‘Diligent (Baker’s) Dozen’ to present live June 1 at Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Milwaukee
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s early-stage economy will present from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, as part of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The four-month, staged contest culminates …
Journal dedicates issue to WEMPEC’s 40-year influence on electric machines and power electronics
The April 2022 issue of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC). The publication, which received 143 …
Catalyst For Change
John Berry is a transition metal chemist. That means he experiments with elements in “the big middle part of the periodic table” that are able to bond with one another in strange and interesting ways, …
UW-Madison grads want to make it easier to get an internship
In spring of 2020, as restaurants switched to curbside pickup and schools switched to virtual lessons, many companies wrote to the college students they’d hired for summer internships or co-ops to say there’d be no …
Business Class: $60M research park project could mean more lab space for Madison’s biotech sector
An increasing number of Madison companies, many at University Research Park, are searching for a local space to innovate and expand beyond their current quarters. A nearly 10-story, 147,000-square-foot building called Element Labs may be …
High-throughput computing as an enabler of black hole science
On June 25, 2021, Arizona astrophysicist Feryal Ozel posted an item on Twitter that must have fired up scientific imaginations. She noted that the Open Science Pool (OSPool) just set a single-day record of capacity …
UW-Madison scientist played pivotal role in imaging Milky Way black hole
UW-Madison scientists played a pivotal role in helping a team share images of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, unveiled Thursday. On Thursday, a team of scientists and …