As the UpStart program celebrates 10 years, its founders and participants look back on how it all began and why it continues to redefine what successful entrepreneurship looks like. When…
UW entrepreneurial awardees model innovation, shape Wisconsin’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
Four outstanding innovators have received the 2023 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards. Established in 2011, the awards recognize individuals with ties to the University of Wisconsin–Madison who further the Wisconsin Idea through…
Groundbreaking: CDIS building to foster high-tech innovation, collaboration
In 1957, newly commissioned 2nd Lt. John Morgridge was installed at a Dover Air Force Base tabulating center alongside the latest in computing technology: a 25-ton, 6,000-square-foot Honeywell DATAmatic 1000….
Weather station network to expand across Wisconsin, aiding farmers and others
A new era for weather data in Wisconsin is on the horizon, thanks to an effort at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wisconsin weather has become increasingly more unpredictable and extreme…
Achieving gender equity in tech transfer
New research guides university tech transfer offices like WARF to cultivate women inventors Jennifer Gottwald, director of licensing at WARF, wants as many UW-Madison inventors as possible to disclose their…
Five projects selected for WARF Accelerator Big Data Challenge
$100K in grant funds to advance next-generation data innovations from UW-Madison researchers CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research…
Four projects selected for WARF Accelerator Mental Health Challenge
$100K in grant funds to support mental health innovations from UW-Madison researchers CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni…
Two UW-Madison teams chosen 2022 WARF Innovation Award winners
Selected from more than 400 innovation disclosures CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe, Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – An engineering physics team using carbon nanotubes to build…