How many rejections does it take to stop pursuing a goal? For Kyle Nakatsuji (MBA ’11, JD ’12), there is no number. “No” is simply a mispronounced “maybe” to the founder and CEO of Clearcover, …
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New search app gleans ‘collective consciousness’ from a massive research database
The PubMed database contains more than 33 million papers that represent the ‘collective consciousness’ of what humans know about biomedicine. It is impossible for researchers to keep up with this vast literature where more than …
How a UW-Madison professor’s algorithm helps find The New Yorker’s cartoon caption
A praying mantis sits eagerly at a dinner table, as a mustachioed and bow-tied waiter unveils a dish containing the steaming head of, well, another praying mantis. “I take it the Honeymoon is over?” one …
Mini maps: New angle sensor allows microscopic measurements at video speeds
Peering through a microscope reveals all sorts of information—the structure, composition and even atomic arrangement of a sample material. But quantifying what’s visualized by the microscope is very tricky, since specialized tools are often needed …
Focus on new faculty: Michael Wehner, devising ways for robots and people to work together
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 …
A robust, low-cost sensing method for soft robots
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 …
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 …