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 …
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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 …
Two engineering faculty startups earn Discovery to Product SEED grants
College of Engineering faculty members David Beebe and Dawei Feng are leading two of the emerging technology projects that earned funding through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Discovery to Product office’s annual State Economic Engagement and …
Emerging Technologies at UW—Madison Get Boost From State Funds
Emerging technologies developed at UW-Madison will receive a funding boost as the result of a $200,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) in support of an on-campus grant program administered by UW’s Discovery to Product (D2P).
Meet some of the notable UW–Madison graduates of spring 2022
By earning a college degree this weekend, thousands of Badgers will have achieved something impressive. Many have left a lasting impact on campus, and some have already made a mark far beyond UW–Madison. Here are …