Students across the state connect with astronauts aboard the International Space Station CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 How does it feel to fly…
Wisconsin students to speak with NASA astronauts aboard space station July 13
Discovery Outreach event connects students and scientists CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – On July 13, hundreds of K-12 students and…
New initiative facilitates research partnerships with the private sector
Seven projects – from generating valuable products from the abundant non-food dairy residues that remain after milk is processed into food product, to amplifying UW–Madison doctoral trainees as the new…
Research Forward funding fills gap left by sunsetting UW2020
After six rounds of funding, the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative has been retired. The name necessitated the move, as much as anything. It will be replaced by Research Forward, whose inaugural round funds 11 grant projects…
University ag innovation hubs under threat
Universities are incubators for many of our nation’s most popular produce items — from the HyRed cranberry developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to the Honeycrisp apple created at the…
WARF/UW-Madison among top 10 universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2020
WARF ranked 7th in global report of university patent producers CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe, Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | 608.960.9892 MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF),…
Three projects selected for WARF Accelerator Advanced Manufacturing Challenge Grant
$100K grant to support next-generation manufacturing innovations at UW–Madison CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri Moe Director of Strategic Communications [email protected] | (608) 960-9892 MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced…
Tech transfer then, now, and tomorrow
In 1925, biochemistry professor Harry Steenbock did something that, at the time, was considered highly unusual. He had developed a process for using ultraviolet radiation to add vitamin D to…