With the music industry being dominated by men, women are often faced with sexism and discrimination. According to She Is The Music, only 21.7% of women are artists, 12.5% of women are songwriters and only 2.7% …
Campus Innovation Stories
Podcast with Karu Singkaralingam, founder of Simple Machines
Sankaralingam, who is also a professor of computer sciences at UW-Madison, set out in 2017 to design a streamlined computer chip. Today, Simple Machines is in the process of bringing it to market. The chip …
Student startup makes safe dining easier for restaurants, universities during COVID-19
An idea developed before the pandemic has turned into software to help restaurants and universities succeed in the COVID age. UW-Madison sophomores Abhijeet Manohar and Sourish Kundu have co-founded a secure menu and ordering platform …
Madison-based startup DataChat secures $4 million in private investments
Madison-based startup DataChat raised $4 million in an early-stage investment round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firms. DataChat, which was founded by researchers and engineers at UW-Madison, aims to help businesses analyze data in …
Madison is home to one of the world’s top virologists
Yoshihiro Kawaoka is studying COVID-19 at his posts at UW–Madison and the University of Tokyo. When Yoshihiro Kawaoka first came to the United States in the summer of 1983 to work on influenza viruses, the …
New commercial showcases UW’s resilience, innovation
“You can’t stop a Badger.” That’s the blunt message of a new 30-second television commercial that captures the innovation and resilience of the University of Wisconsin–Madison during this pandemic year. It’s set to air during …
Silicon Valley investors go in on UW spinout DataChat
DataChat, a Madison company that developed an intelligence interface that allows business users to extract insight from their data simply by talking to a chatbot, has raised $4 million to build its team and customer …
“This Idea Is So Incredibly Simple” UW Surgeon Invents One of Kind Operating Room Light
A top UW Health transplant surgeon might as well call Shark Tank. He’s invented something that can safely light up any operation. “You know when we do surgeries we wear a headlight on our heads …
University Research Park: Where COVID Meets Cutting Edge
University Research Park is full of companies working on cutting edge solutions to the world’s thorniest problems. From eradicating cancer, hepatitis, and influenza deaths to eliminating antibiotic use or fighting climate change through new fuels …
New Creative Destruction Lab Course Gives Students Unique Access to Venture Creation
In July 2020, it was announced that the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) will launch the CDL-Wisconsin Program this fall. The CDL-Wisconsin Program is a collaboration with the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of …