The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced that nine highly deployable projects have been selected to receive development funding through the UW/WARF COVID-19 Accelerator Challenge. From improved respirators to accelerated testing, these innovations are designed to be rapidly advanced over the coming months to combat the...
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will begin accepting applications online for the $75 million We’re All In Small Business Grant (WSBG) program beginning at 8 a.m. on June 15, WEDC officials announced today....
We reject hate, racism and violence and call for peaceful activism to drive systemic change to build our community....
While the threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria continues to grow, an effort spearheaded by UW-Madison Professor Jo Handelsman is sourcing potential candidates for new antibiotics from all over the world....
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s early stage economy have recorded their presentations for online viewing as part of the 17th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The four-month-long contest culminates during the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference....
Brian Pinkerton, a 1986 UW-Madison graduate with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, will digitally return to Madison as the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference early next month....
James Schauer, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW–Madison, is director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, which has played a leading role in the state’s testing efforts during the pandemic....
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched virtually every aspect of our working lives, imposing a new set of challenges for employees and employers alike. WSB faculty recently examined these workplace issues in a live panel discussion facilitated by Lauren Weber, a reporter with The Wall Street...
Kevin Conroy, the chairman and chief executive officer of Madison-based Exact Sciences, will be honored during the June 4 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference with the 17th annual Ken Hendricks Memorial “Seize the Day” award....
Registrants for the 2020 Wisconsin Entrepreneur’s Conference may now dive head-first into our online platform, Pathable, which is a highly interactive SaaS software that offers the next-best-thing to an in-person event....
A Cyberstates 2020 report by CompTIA shows IT jobs statewide growing by a net of nearly 5,000 in 2019....
In record time, we’ve put together public-private partnerships of scientists, engineers, public health experts, manufacturers and many others to address the pandemic. ...