A new breast surgery marker device, developed by a company founded by three UW-Madison faculty, is expected to be used by about 15 hospital systems by the end of January. The system, approved by the …
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UW Spinout Understory is one of seven companies on Inc magazine’s Innovative Startups to Watch in 2020 list
Understory Madison, Wisconsin-based Understory builds weather sensors that collect 125,000 data points per second, tracking things like precipitation, wind, temperature, air pressure, and humidity. In 2019, the company partnered with insurance firm MSI GuaranteedWeather. The data it collects …
75 years later, UW-Madison inventors aim to replace old-style breast-surgery marker
Three University of Wisconsin–Madison innovators have invented a better way for surgeons to locate tumors during lumpectomies for breast cancer. The new system, developed by a startup called Elucent Medical, is in use at SSM …
How colleges can help reverse regional inequality
There’s perhaps no greater illustration of what a university can do to boost a region’s economy than the story of Madison, Wisconsin. Until fairly recently, Madison’s reputation was that of a typical college town, better …
How do you make walking easier for a 2-legged dog? Ask UW-Madison engineers for help
The client: A furry, 4-year-old Australian shepherd mix with a hankering for hot dogs and little ability to communicate beyond a bark. The assignment for a group of UW-Madison students: Find a way for this …
Wisconsin students perfect breathing device for pediatric surgeries
During surgery, anesthesiologists ensure that a patient remains unconscious during the procedure. They also maintain vital functioning, such as that of the respiratory system. When that patient is an infant or young child, proper maintenance …
UW-Madison senior invented a new tailgating game before he even got to college
The summer before JT Nejedlo attended UW-Madison unitentionally became a difference maker in the 2016 Kettle Moraine High School graduate’s young life. Around 3½ years ago, Nejedlo had a few weeks to burn before college began. “I …
20 Startups to Watch in 2020
AmebaGone, Blexx, Gregor Diagnostics, and SciArt have ties to UW–Madison.
Spencer Black: Reports highlight the importance of Wisconsin’s knowledge economy
Two very different top 10 lists published in the last week are seemingly unrelated, but both tell basically the same story. The lists came from respected research institutions and, while they weren’t on the same …
New coating hides temperature change from infrared cameras
An ultrathin coating developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets, the brighter it glows. The new coating — engineered from …