Noted: Through $75,000 in grant funding, the University of Wisconsin Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic will be able to support development in services related to patent guidance rather than cutting services, provide immigration guidance top at least 10 clients who are without services, and double the support provided to entrepreneurs in the food and beverage industry.
The federal Transportation Department announced a network of autonomous driving pilot programs on the final full day of the Obama administration. UW-Madison is involved.
When Under Armour signed UCLA to a 15-year, $280 million outfitting deal last year, the company’s thinking — like that of a prospective homebuyer — centered largely on location, location, location.
Pittsburgh will work with Penn State University as a federal proving ground for self-driving vehicle technology. UW-Madison is also involved.
JangoBio, a University of Wisconsin-connected biotech that announced its launch at the end of 2016, is refining a stem cell-based solution for restoring the flow of hormones in aging patients.
Later this month, the brainchild of a team of UW-Madison students will be loaded into a trailer and driven across country to a site south of Los Angeles, home to the headquarters of tech titan Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX.
Noted: Hart E. Posen, an expert on business strategy from the Wisconsin School of Business, talks about the closing of The Limited and the future of retail.
Imagine an app on your phone that can sense whether there is carbon monoxide in a room. If the display doesn’t change, you’re safe. But if the screen changes, “maybe it’s time to get out of the room,” says Manos Mavrikakis.
Treating cancer is complex as each tumor differs greatly from another. This is due to their genetic makeups. Similarly, each patient responds differently to treatments. This uniqueness stimulates the development of personalized treatment.
Capio Biosciences has developed technology that can identify cancer cells in the bloodstream, said co-founder and president Seungpyo Hong … Hong joined the UW-Madison faculty this week as a professor of pharmaceutical sciences; he had been at the University of Illinois-Chicago campus.
Perhaps the most unusual technology now coming out of UW is the work of Xudong Wang and his team. Wang has invented a floorboard with electrodes that are able to harness a variant of static electricity.
Games Education and Research, or GEAR for short, will be the spiritual successor to the now-defunct Games+Learning+Society group, an institution that pioneered the study of games and their educational properties and made the university a hub of video game scholarship. GLS disintegrated this year after the organization’s leaders — education professors Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler — announced they were leaving for new jobs at the University of California-Irvine.
Renewable energy made from the act of walking on a special nanotech wood floor. A “super yeast” that does a lot more than make bread dough rise. A battery that’s charged by the energy from the sun.
According to University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business professor Raj Veeramani, IoT is not just a startup trend. All manufacturers have to adjust to an IoT world if they want to stay competitive, he said.
Cellular Dynamics International, the company founded by internationally renowned UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, plans to leave Madison for Verona.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison professor and developmental biologist Jamie Thomson had recently made history by isolating the first human embryonic stem cell line. It was among the many notable achievements pushing UW–Madison to the forefront of what Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s former director Carl Gulbrandsen liked to call “the new economy.” Lauded on the cover of Time magazine in 2001 for his revolutionary science, Thomson founded Cellular Dynamics International to produce stem cells used in drug discovery and toxicity testing. That same year, the Wisconsin Technology Council was created by a bipartisan act of the governor and Legislature.
Dimming or turning out the lights seems like a good idea for a magic trick or scary story, not surgery.However, performing surgery in the dark is actually what surgeons are forced to do for some procedures, where darkened operating environments are optimal for utilizing fluorescent compounds that highlight specific tissues — think cancer — in patients’ bodies.OnLume, a Madison company founded in 2015, is aiming to change that with technology designed to shed new light on complicated surgical procedures.
The stress of applying to law school can be intense. The LSAT, the essay, the hassle of it all. Now there’s an additional stress factor — well, if you applied to the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2005-06.
Wearable technology is growing in both the worlds of fashion and medicine, and one University of Wisconsin student is taking an unconventional education path to bring the two together.
On an August evening in 2015, a group of about 80 video game industry insiders and tech gurus crowded into a lounge on the top floor of the former AT&T Building in downtown Madison. The goal of the meetup, organized by the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP), was to bring all the key players in Madison’s video game scene — from studio executives to independent developers to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers — together in the same room.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business ties for first. MBA grads from these business schools have at least a 250 percent average return, U.S. News data show.
A University of Wisconsin business student has invented an add-on to insulin injectors ensuring a safer and surer injection for diabetics.
Noted: From the September 2016 Orbitz University of Wisconsin US Traveler Compass study. Orbitz and the University of Wisconsin Business School’s US Traveler Compass Study surveyed 711 adults 18-64 who are leisure travelers about their future travel intent. This study is done using Google Consumer Surveys.
Binnu Palta Hill is working hard for a more diverse School of Business.
Two stem cell companies derived from UW-Madison research are coming out of the woodwork.
Long known for patenting and licensing inventions rooted in the Madison campus, WARF began investing in some of those companies more than 15 years ago and appears poised to consider doing more.
Engineers at UW-Madison have created the floor of the future that produces its own power when it’s walked on. It’s made with wood and cardboard fibers that have been treated with a cellulose gel. Because of that, the creators said it’s good for the environment too.
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
Noted: Ryder will help host dinners that pair foods with beer at the brewery. He continues his work as adjunct professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he hopes to elevate fermentation sciences by making students consider careers in that area.
With relatively few college-educated people moving here and an economy that is generating large numbers of lower-skill jobs, Wisconsin faces a challenging future, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension and UW – Madison argue in a new report.
Since 1925, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has racked up quite a roster of patents. That’s kind of the point. A nonprofit institution, WARF exists to support scientific investigations and research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by stewarding a “cycle of research, discovery, commercialization and investment.”
Quoted: “I think that might be code for ’this region is developing economically’ and they’re trying to get into it,” said John Surdyk, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school and president of the Stanford Club of Madison, which has about 550 Stanford alumni members.
The University of Wisconsin’s (UWISC) first cohort of students to complete a significant number of their undergraduate courses primarily through the flipped classroom model is preparing to graduate in the spring.
Noted: I’m a UW grad, so I’m a contributor to the UW-Madison Foundation. We also contribute to Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, where my father received outstanding care. As a company, we are involved with United Way and United Performing Arts Fund along with many other organizations through our Zilber Family Foundation.
Since a long time, the world has been going gaga over the benefits of generating electricity from sunlight and water. But if we tell you that even your footsteps can be converted into usable electricity, wouldn’t that surprise you? Thanks to a green flooring invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers. It is with the help of this flooring that footsteps can be converted into usable electricity.
EdTech speaks with the chief data officer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison about early successes and emerging applications in data analytics.
Kenny Dichter was a sociology major when he attended UW-Madison in the 1980s, a “low-SAT, low-GPA guy,” as he describes himself.
The University of Wisconsin System ranks No. 13 in the world according to Reuters’ top 100 most innovative universities list.
Presenting to a room of about 500 students at the fourth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase Thursday evening, four prolific entrepreneurs, all University of Wisconsin graduates themselves, touted the qualities that make for successful endeavors in entrepreneurship.
Noted: EatStreet’s funding round follows the company raising $15 million in December and brings to more than $40 million the total amount of outside capital Madison-based EatStreet has raised since it was founded in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. The company will use the money for general corporate purposes, according to the filing.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is buzzing with about 400 scientists, graduate students and staff.It boasts the University of Wisconsin System’s largest grant, $265 million over a decade. But, its sunsets next year, and the Energy Institute is at a pivotal point, both in leadership and funding.
Last month, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unveiled a new initiative to help businesses around the state tap into the talent of UW System graduates.
Noted: HealthMyne — which lists among its co-founders Rock Mackie, the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical physicist who developed the technology behind TomoTherapy Inc. — said in late September that it had raised $6.9 million.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says he’s forming a business council made up of “key business and industry leaders from around the state,” ideally from an array of economic sectors.
Two University of Wisconsin Masters in Business Administration courses became the first to receive a STEM designation in the country Thursday, which could make the degree more valuable to students and employers.
President Ray Cross announced the formation of a new council aimed at fulfilling initiatives from the 2020FWD strategic framework plan.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Noted: PerBlue, which has about 40 employees, was founded by Beck and Andrew Hanson in June 2008. They funded it themselves, then raised $72,000 from family and friends in July 2009. Both graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with computer engineering degrees in 2009.
CDI is partners in the venture with David Gamm, director of the UW-Madison’s McPherson Eye Research Institute.
Quoted: Would increased diversity among investors result in more parity for women and people of color? In terms of peer reviewed research, there’s not enough robust literature on the subject to really say, said Sarada, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison who goes by one name. In fact, there isn’t even a clear understanding of why certain groups are so underrepresented in the realm of entrepreneurship, let alone private equity.
In the fast-changing world of science and technology, if you’re not innovating, you’re falling behind. UW System is No. 13.
Noted: The partnership is the first gener8tor has forged with a university outside of Wisconsin. About a year ago, gener8tor partnered with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which provided an undisclosed amount of funding for gener8tor to provide coaching and other services to startups.
The University of Minnesota’s Office of Technology Commercialization, which has increased the number of businesses born from university research, announced Tuesday a partnership with Wisconsin-based “Gener8tor” the start-up business accelerator.
Governor Scott Walker says the University of Wisconsin Credit Union’s decision to expand its membership criteria could help more state residents refinance their student loan debt.
“You’re making the face,” said a client to Michelle Somes-Booher, business consultant and director of the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. According to Somes-Booher, it’s the tough love face, the one she puts on when she says something that a client doesn’t want to hear.
Everyone loves the idea of solar energy, but the reality is that it’s not always efficient enough for our needs.
Many college courses use online materials. But until this fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison didn’t have an entire academic program that relied only on computers instead of paper.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Executive MBA program is ditching paper and going digital.
The University of Wisconsin is launching a new study to determine how to better allocate information technology resources on campus.
The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new website connecting students with state businesses in a bid to keep more UW graduates in Wisconsin.
