Innovative 3-D printing technology came out on top as Spectrom – developed by a University of Wisconsin-Madison team that includes Cedric Kovacs-Johnson, Charles Haider and Taylor Fahey – won first place in the undergraduate category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Applying a similar approach to the 3-D printer, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are commercializing a device that adds color to a printer that now dominates the market. Their business idea was one of two student projects to receive an Igniter grant from the university’s Discovery to Product (D2P) office.
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded grants totaling $306,628 to seven doctoral students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, through the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) program.
At first glance, UW-Madison junior Haley Laundrie may seem like your typical college student. The 20-year-old from Lake Mills, Wisconsin, studies communication arts and legal studies, works with the Wisconsin Business World, a summer business camp for high school students, and volunteers for UW-Madison’s chapter of Best Buddies, which connects students with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Outside of the classroom, however, Laundrie represents the state as Miss Wisconsin USA.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate teams are among only seven finalists for the 2014 National Collegiate Inventors Competition, which honors the latest in student creativity and innovation.
Thirteen University of Wisconsin-Madison students have received 2014-15 fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the country’s flagship program for international exchange.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students performing spoken word, dance and drumming brought audience members to their feet at a surprise live performance during UW-Madison’s annual Arts Awards reception.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank joined colleagues including outgoing Provost Paul DeLuca and Interim Vice Provost Chris Olsen on Monday to recognize students for excellence in research.
A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates has won a $90,000 award to expand a novel Styrofoam reuse and recycling program in the Madison area.
The national Agricultural Innovation Prize: Powered by 40 Chances announced winning student teams during a two-day competition held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 25-26, where students, competition judges, experts from a range of backgrounds and the public explored finalists’ projects and larger ideas in business, science and society.
An insect farming program to improve food security and a mobile-based ridesharing application were the winners in the Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge, designed to find student solutions to world energy and sustainability challenges.
A smart, ultraviolet therapeutic bandage won the top prize and $15,000 at the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation competition at UW-Madison. The Power Wearables team of biomedical engineer Mehdi Shokoueinejad, electrical and computer engineers Akshay Kumar and Yei-Hwan Jung created the MicroViolet Patch to combine phototherapy with a typical adhesive bandage.
Eight University of Wisconsin-Madison students spent Easter weekend showing off their Chinese speaking skills. The UW-Madison team won a haul of medals at the Midwest Universities Chinese Speech Contest Saturday at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
The Alpha Chapter of Wisconsin Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Wisconsin-Madison inducted 116 students into membership in a ceremony on Saturday, April 12.
University of Wisconsin–Madison junior Colin Higgins has been selected as a 2014 Udall Scholar.
Each year, an American university may nominate only four undergraduates for a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious awards in the U.S. conferred upon undergraduates studying the sciences. So it is a particularly special honor that all four of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s nominees have been selected to receive the scholarship.
An idea that began as a homework assignment for two UW-Madison sophomores living in Sellery Hall’s Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, has since grown into a fully functional, award-winning website that serves hundreds of UW-Madison students.
Spectrom, an attachment for 3D printers that will allow users to incorporate seamless, on-demand color into the 3D printing process, won both the $10,000 Schoofs Prize for Creativity and the $2,500 Tong Prototype Prize at the 20th annual Innovation Days competition.
As a child, Joshua Shutter’s introduction to chemistry came through library books, learning to make rock candy and bottle rockets.
Andrew Bulovsky’s Twitter profile reads like a mini-resume for student involvement. He’s vice president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Class of 2014, a hockey player, golfer, Wisconsinite and proud Badger.