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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Four honored with UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards
The 2022 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards honor University of Wisconsin–Madison innovators and alumni who further the Wisconsin Idea through outstanding accomplishments in entrepreneurship. The four recipients of this year’s awards showcase how the university and …
Crowdfunding For Equity Financing Helps Gender Equity, Too
Crowdfunding may level the traditionally male playing field of equity financing, a recent study by Martin Ganco, professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, suggests. In the entrepreneurship world, equity …
Advocate Aurora and Forward BIOLABS to bring solutions to emerging biohealth startups
Advocate Aurora Research Institute, part of Advocate Aurora Health, is providing support to Forward BIOLABS, a premiere midwestern life science incubator, by offering its significant laboratory and clinical research capabilities to Forward BIOLABS’s network of …
Veterinary medicine students launch software startup to serve clinics
Annie Pankowski, a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, never expected to add co-founder of a tech startup to her list of accomplishments. However, during the pandemic, veterinarians noticed a sharp …
Madison venture capital group’s parent company fined $700K for misleading investors on fees
The parent company of a Madison-based investment group that claims to solicit money for UW-Madison alumni-connected ventures even though it isn’t affiliated with the university settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last week …
Multiple Morgridge Investigators received prestigious awards in early 2022
Melissa Skala was awarded a grant from the National Eye Institute to develop a new imaging method for quantifying melanin in the human eye. With this two-year, $480,135 grant, Skala and her team will develop a technique called …
What higher education can learn from the business world: Takeaways from Showcase 2022
OBE Managing Director John Garnetti joined fellow business professionals at the UW–Madison Office of Strategic Consulting Showcase 2022 to discuss the differences—and some surprising similarities—between working in a corporate setting and higher education. The online …
Madison cancer research company seeks to improve treatment
A cancer research company on Madison’s Far West Side, started in “stealth mode” two years ago and led by a former executive at Exact Sciences, is announcing initial results of its live tumor imaging technology …
How one university established a way of monitoring IP leakage
Leakage of intellectual property is not usually considered a major issue for most universities, but the prospect of its consequences is compelling enough that many may wonder about it and ponder how to deal with …