Steven Skroch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in biomedical engineering, is one of five students nationwide chosen to help inaugurate an international program in entrepreneurship by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation.
When most people think of Bill Gates, they think computers. But when UW–Madison’s 14 Gates Millennium Scholars think of the renowned computer genius, they are probably reminded of their own promising futures.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison student-built snowmobiles swept the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Clean Snowmobile Challenge, winning both competition divisions: the National Science Foundation Award for the best sled in the zero-emissions division and the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association Award for first place in the internal-combustion division.
Students interested in the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program (KECIP), an innovative opportunity for students to become social entrepreneurs, are invited to attend an informational session on Wednesday, March 11.
Last December, when Siavash Sarlati responded to President-elect Barack Obama’s national challenge and organized an informal health care reform discussion group in his father’s Milwaukee home, he never dreamed it would turn into a trip to the White House.
Where else at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would someone find high fashion, conservation initiatives, die-hard partiers and fish in the same competition?
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has received a prestigious national award recognizing future leaders in higher education.
A software application for the iPhone and the iPod touch that will help people sleep and wake up more effectively won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison invention competition that rewards innovative and marketable ideas.
The university has awarded 2009 Research Service Grant Awards to Nancy Mithlo, Department of Art History, and Douglas Weibel, Department of Biochemistry. The Council for Interior Design Accreditation has honored the Design Studies department’s Suzanne Scott with the Keith Hooks Volunteer Excellence Award. “Consensus and Debate in Salazar’s Portugal,” a new book by Ellen W. …
It’s not every day that a judge is so torn between two competitors that he produces $500 out of his own pocket just so he won’t have to choose.
In the past, enterprising University of Wisconsin-Madison students have repurposed surplus materials to construct, among other things, a space heater safety alarm, a home reservoir system, a hand-cranking portable power generator and an artistic, wall-mounted light fixture.
Singers around the world dream of taking the stage at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. On Sunday, Feb. 15, one University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student will do just that.
What do a youth sport officiating agency, a club dedicated to microfinance, a student-run bus company, a Chinese economic forum, and a Silver eBay PowerSeller business have to do with entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
With a photograph that embodies the unexpected – and sometimes breathtaking – outcomes of science, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Jenna Eun has won second place in the 2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science magazine.
The University of Wisconsin women’s track and field program has placed a total of 13 student-athletes on the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s All-Academic team, matching the highest total of honorees from a single program.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate one of its most important diversity “pipeline” programs Friday, Aug. 1.
Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has awarded the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Award to eight outstanding graduate students whose work will deepen international understanding and global social justice concerns.
University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to chat with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist – much less several of them.
For the first time in 18 years, Wisconsin men’s
rowing can call itself national champions. And the women’s lightweight rowers won their fourth national championship in the last five years.
University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students Amanda Hoffstrom and Alec Luhn were honored this week as two of the top 100 journalists on U.S. college campuses by UWIRE, an organization that supports college student media.