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AfribbeanBaby creates affordable African print kids’ clothing to Madison

April 8, 2022

Starting as a project to make clothes for her daughter, AfribbeanBaby has grown into a community-funded business in the Progress Center for Black Women. When Nina Akli’s daughter Alise was about 1 year old, she …

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Finalists in Gov’s Biz Plan Contest offer innovation in health, environment, more

April 7, 2022

Twenty-six entries representing sectors such as health care, cleantech, education, software and innovations in products or services are competing in the finalist round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The contestants have …

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Madison’s Quiver Quantitative wants to shake up stock trading

April 6, 2022

Could the number of people visiting a company’s Wikipedia page predict the company’s stock price? What about the number of times a company is mentioned in a popular investing channel on Reddit? Or the amount …

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Biodegradable gel boosts immune system’s attack on several cancers in mice

April 6, 2022

A new biodegradable gel improves the immune system’s ability to keep cancer at bay after tumors are surgically removed. The gel, tested in mice, releases drugs and special antibodies that simultaneously deplete immune-blocking cells called …

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Kyle Nakatsuji is disrupting the insurance industry

April 1, 2022

How many rejections does it take to stop pursuing a goal? For Kyle Nakatsuji (MBA ’11, JD ’12), there is no number. “No” is simply a mispronounced “maybe” to the founder and CEO of Clearcover, …

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UW-Madison College of Engineering expands entrepreneurship efforts

March 31, 2022

Alan Yeung, author and technology executive, has joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a professor of practice for entrepreneurship. In this role, Yeung, an alumnus of the UW-Madison College of Engineering, will help jump-start technology …

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New search app gleans ‘collective consciousness’ from a massive research database

March 28, 2022

The PubMed database contains more than 33 million papers that represent the ‘collective consciousness’ of what humans know about biomedicine. It is impossible for researchers to keep up with this vast literature where more than …

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How a UW-Madison professor’s algorithm helps find The New Yorker’s cartoon caption

March 27, 2022

A praying mantis sits eagerly at a dinner table, as a mustachioed and bow-tied waiter unveils a dish containing the steaming head of, well, another praying mantis. “I take it the Honeymoon is over?” one …

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Mini maps: New angle sensor allows microscopic measurements at video speeds

March 26, 2022

Peering through a microscope reveals all sorts of information—the structure, composition and even atomic arrangement of a sample material. But quantifying what’s visualized by the microscope is very tricky, since specialized tools are often needed …

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Focus on new faculty: Michael Wehner, devising ways for robots and people to work together

March 25, 2022

Soft robots can outshine their rigid counterparts in a whole variety of ways—for example, squeezing through tight spaces or sensing and carefully interacting with their surrounding environment. To be useful in real-world applications, however, a …

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