22 Mar MilliporeSigma investing $65 million in Verona expansion
Madison-based life science company, MilliporeSigma, has announced plans to invest nearly $65 million to expand company operations in Verona....
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22 Mar Pharmacy students meet urgent need for vaccinators in Wisconsin
Through training, volunteerism and clinical rotations, the School of Pharmacy and its PharmD students meet an urgent need for COVID-19 vaccinators across Wisconsin. Third- and fourth-year PharmD students are already trained vaccinators who are ready and willing to help....
21 Mar Madison companies still pursuing COVID-19 vaccines, saying more options needed
Even with three COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the U.S. and others possibly available soon, two UW-Madison spinoff companies continue to pursue coronavirus vaccine candidates they say could find a niche....
20 Mar PHOTOS: In Your Business at Pyran
At the lab of chemical engineering startup Pyran, agricultural feedstocks like corn cobs and wood chips become chemicals that can replace fossil fuels in plastics and paints....
09 Mar Wisconsin and Madison have highest hiring outlooks in the country according to ManpowerGroup
Hiring outlooks continue to improve for the second quarter according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey of more than 7,500 U.S employers....
09 Mar Eleven small businesses tap into $1,000,000 in state matching grants to bolster Wisconsin innovation
SBIR Advance’s latest round of funding is allowing 11 innovative small businesses to further their commercialization through SBIR match grants up to $75,000 for Phase I and $100,000 for Phase II....
03 Mar Groundbreaking entrepreneurship science lab fosters student entrepreneurs
A new lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is mobilizing the entrepreneurial ecosystem by working to identify the conditions that foster student entrepreneurship....
02 Mar UW Professor Malia Jones becomes the nation’s go-to COVID-19 expert with “Dear Pandemic”
UW epidemiologist Malia Jones was in Iceland when COVID-19 struck. On her return, she anticipated a lockdown and time to catch up on work. The country had other plans for her....
23 Feb Beckman Foundation awards Morgridge Investigators to develop smart light sheet technology
Light sheet microscopy has the ability to image samples over several hours or days from different angles to generate a 3D view of an entire organism. This fast-imaging technique generates a tremendous amount of data quickly with less phototoxic effects on the sample....
22 Feb Materials science is a natural fit for Wisconsin manufacturing
Innovation and research are what keep Wisconsin’s manufacturing sector vibrant, and one secret weapon is the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering. Not only are top materials science students sought after by industry, but breakthroughs in materials developed at the university often...
21 Feb How a 1960s discovery in Yellowstone made millions of COVID-19 PCR tests possible
Like so many great scientific discoveries, Tom Brock an emeritus professor at UW Madison, started the research that would go on to revolutionize the field of biology – and pave the road to the development of the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight a pandemic...
20 Feb Thomson Lab looks to make major health impact with artery engineering project
At the Morgridge Institute, stem cell pioneer James Thomson is leading a potentially transformational project to develop a safe and functional cell-based artificial artery that could be pulled from medical inventories and used by vascular surgeons....