The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship offers a weekly Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch program where local experts on entrepreneurship tell their unique story and answer questions from students on the UW campus. The sessions occur during the …
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Apply by September 19 for Fall Startup Trainings
UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) is accepting applications for two fall semester programs that help campus innovators bring their ideas for groundbreaking products and services to the marketplace, Innovation to Market (I2M) and Igniter. All …
Two UW-Madison startups will compete during Forward Fest Pressure Chamber event
Noted: UW–Madison spinouts NovoMoto and OnLume will compete at the annual Pressure Chamber event, part of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s neXXpo event at the Forward Festival highlighting Madison’s most innovative companies.
UW-Madison spinout AIQ Solutions draws investment
Noted: AIQ Solutions was formed by UW Madison researchers who pioneered methods to quantitatively assess changes in cancerous bone lesions in response to cancer treatment. On campus, they received early support from Discovery to Product’s …
Lessons of conventional imaging let scientists see around corners
Along with flying and invisibility, high on the list of every child’s aspirational superpowers is the ability to see through or around walls or other visual obstacles. That capability is now a big step closer …
Dr. Thomas “Rock” Mackie honored with 2019 Wisconsin Biohealth Award
BioForward named Dr. Thomas “Rock” Mackie and Laura Johnson Douglass the winners of the fifth annual Wisconsin Biohealth Awards, the organization announced recently.
Wisconsin Tech Growth is Tangible
Some people in Wisconsin assume the rest of the country knows all it needs to know about us. That’s a faulty assumption, especially in an era when competing for talent knows no borders. Cheese, beer, …
In the Spotlight: Kristen Slack, founder of Prof2Prof
Prof2Prof started as a midnight inspiration. Kristen Slack, a social work professor at UW-Madison, literally bought the domain prof2prof.com in the middle of the night after reading a New York Times article about an e-commerce …
Vegan dessert with an unexpected ingredient places second in national food development competition
Delicious desserts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of chickpeas, but a team of UW–Madison food science students are whipping up a plan to change that. Recent graduate …
Simple ‘smart’ glass reveals the future of artificial vision
The sophisticated technology that powers face recognition in many modern smartphones someday could receive a high-tech upgrade that sounds — and looks — surprisingly low-tech. This window to the future is none other than a piece of glass. University of …