Tenth annual Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards celebrates four UW innovators

April 28, 2023

The 10th annual Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards honored four outstanding innovators and alumni from the University of Wisconsin Thursday night for furthering the Wisconsin Idea, according to a email press release from the chancellor’s office.

Honorees Tyler Kennedy, Winslow L. Sargeant, Wesley Schroll and Anne Smith received this award for their outstanding individual accomplishments. The four are leading innovation through entrepreneurship and creating a powerful impact on Wisconsin and the world, Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin said.

The event began with a reception for the honorees to allow them, their families, friends and all other attendees to recognize their outstanding accomplishments. The program then continued in the Discovery Building’s DeLuca Forum where each honoree was celebrated and recognized by the evening’s host, Mnookin, and the audience.“They share a set of core commitments that drive their work, and that includes a commitment to follow their curiosity to collaboration, to service and the creativity to make something that didn’t exist before,” Mnookin said. “Curiosity about how something might be done differently or better, collaboration to people who bring the right mix of resourcefulness, resilience, passion, knowledge, a dedication to service, that’s the Wisconsin Idea.”