Physics professor Victor Brar (left in photo above) is the second faculty member from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to be honored with the prestigious Moore Inventor Fellowship. Brar is one of just five Moore fellows …
Innovation in the News
Exploring Innovation at the Discovery Building
Right across West Johnson Street from Union South lies a building that, to many, around campus, is shrouded in mystery. Although the Discovery Building has plenty of windows and is designed for collaboration, community and …
UW Madison Students Compete in Clinton Global Initiative
Passion and progress motivated the two UW-Madison students and a recent alum this fall selected by the Clinton Global Initiative – University (“CGI-U”) program to participate in the organization’s annual conference held at the University …
Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase Highlights UW–Madison Projects
As interest in entrepreneurship continues to soar, the sixth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase event provided an opportunity to learn from and be inspired by successful entrepreneurs. Attendees, including undergraduates, graduates, faculty, staff, alumni, and community …
How Too Much Confidence Can Benefit Entrepreneurs
Researchers have created a computational model to interpret decision-making, learning, and experiences that result in entrepreneurs’ success and failure in market entry and exit. In short, they distilled the traits that lead an entrepreneur to …
Madison Companies Dominate Deloitte Fast 500 Technology Firms
Two companies based in Madison and one with most of its operations here are among the top 10 businesses in the Deloitte 2018 North America Technology Fast 500 rankings for staging the biggest revenue jumps …
UW Discoveries Drive Drug Development
The reinvention of a photographic film company has transformed a pioneering stem cell startup into a biotech leader with an eye toward regenerative medicine and drug discovery. The former Cellular Dynamics International Inc., with deep …
Small miracle: Stem cells drive research and entrepreneurship in Madison
In 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers made waves in the worlds of biology and medicine, revealing they had five examples of human embryonic stem cells — biological building blocks at the foundation of cellular development …
UW Med School Leads the Way in Commercializing Research
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were …