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UW brings outreach to Epic’s ‘Deep Space’
Hosting a series of exhibits on Epic Systems campus in Verona for the health care software company’s massive annual users’ group meeting, UW–Madison researchers and outreach experts focused on “Deep Space,” the name of Epic’s new underground auditorium, as a common theme to demonstrate how campus research is making an impact in and out of this world.
Open House showcases university-business collaboration
UW-Madison schools and colleges showcased their relationships with corporate partners at the university’s second annual Corporate Open House Thursday at the Discovery Building.
Perfect pitch: Law students learn to be entrepreneurs
Most days, students in UW Law School’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic work with supervising attorneys to provide free legal guidance to Wisconsin business owners and entrepreneurs. But for last week’s Pitch Day, instructors turned the tables on 18 L&E students by challenging them to create business models for their own start-ups.
Recent sightings: Baldwin talks tech
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin meets with UW–Madison researchers and representatives from Isomark, a company commercializing a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation-licensed technology to detect patient infections sooner than is currently possible.
The never-ending back-to-school sale
If it seems like back-to-school shopping starts earlier every year, it’s because it does.
New program to appeal to military personnel, educators, business leaders
UW-Madison's Department of Political Science is expanding a series of online courses geared toward military service members, educators and business leaders into a graduate capstone certificate program, set to kick off in 2014.
Business school bootcamp teaches art and science of entrepreneurship
Ice cream is more than a dessert to Maya Warren: it's her future. She studies it on a molecular level and plans to start a business related to ice cream after graduation.
Bugher to retire after guiding University Research Park growth, success
Mark Bugher, who helped to mold UW–Madison’s University Research Park into an economic and technology transfer force admired nationally, plans to retire in October.
New tech-enhanced grocery shopping experience wins Innovative Minds Prize
Fetch Rewards LLC, a mobile application designed to reinvent the grocery shopping experience, won the $10,000 Innovative Minds Challenge on May 10 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Advanced manufacturing focus of June 10-14 conference
Featuring a broad swath of leading-edge research from around the world, an advanced manufacturing research conference June 10-14, 2013, will draw nearly 500 academic, industrial and governmental participants to the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.
Business, human ecology schools open experimental, collaborative lab
Faculty and students from two UW–Madison schools are celebrating the opening of a new experimental lab — a collaboration between the School of Human Ecology and the Wisconsin School of Business to create a learning and research community within the university.
Madison startup company mounting two-pronged attack against influenza
As a new type of "bird flu" causes deaths and worries in China, a Madison startup is attacking the problem on two fronts. FluGen, under the scientific guidance of University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a world authority on influenza, is moving ahead with a better way to deliver existing vaccines and a novel "universal" flu vaccine.
PwC donates $1.1 million to Wisconsin School of Business
PwC US representatives today presented a donation of more than $1.1 million, which will pay for a professorship and support programs for students, to Wisconsin School of Business students, faculty and staff.
UW faculty dissect growing relationship with China
In forging connections with China, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has created an international model for the university. An upcoming panel of UW–Madison faculty will examine how this partnership with China is evolving and what it means for the future of the university and the student experience.
Lighting pioneer, brainchild of UW–Madison students, prospers in Middleton
The opening line was decidedly off-hand for a performance that has run for more than three decades on Broadway and off: "Gak, this is disgusting, I can do it for $5,000!"
Chancellor search reaches out to business community
Local business leaders told the committee charged with finding UW–Madison’s next chancellor that they want a leader for the university who recognizes the opportunities provided by active collaboration with the city and business community.
Analytical tool is focus of spinoff firm
A new company making a high-speed, accurate and user-friendly instrument that reveals the molecular structure of proteins, drugs, and other important materials is the latest spinoff from the University of Wisconsin–Madison chemistry department.