Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, got an urgent email from the university’s hospital. Could his lab make 1,000 face shields to protect staff testing and treating Covid-19 patients?...
Business operators with questions about community response efforts and business assistance for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have a new resource in the form of a virtual portal that was launched March 19 by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce....
Adel Talaat is one of several scientists at the UW studying the new coronavirus to better understand how it harms people and to try to control it with treatments or vaccines. As the outbreak continues to grow in the U.S. and elsewhere, dramatically curbing daily...
Jenna Scheffert, "The Wisconsin School of Business fosters a place of comfort and a feeling of home while studying on a campus with 40,000 other students. Whether it’s faculty members, professors, or students, everyone supports the collaborative environment and strives to help each other by...
In another step toward assisting small businesses that suffer losses related to the COVID-19 health emergency, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is creating a program to provide grants to targeted businesses throughout the state, WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes announced today....
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school ranked 37th on U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Graduate Schools rankings released today....
The health and safety of the people working in University Research Park is of the upmost priority. As we collectively monitor and react to the news of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we want to make you aware of steps University Research Park...
Milwaukee is one of the top metros in the Midwest for women working in STEM, according to a recent report by Commercial Cafe. The report identified the top 10 cities in each region and nationally, based on metrics indicating representation of women in STEM occupations,...
devTOX quickPredict (devTOXqP) screening platform developed by Stemina Biomarker Discovery, Inc. demonstrated the platform’s ability to predict developmental toxicity in humans with high accuracy using a cell-based test....
UW-Madison's Chancellor Rebecca Blank named Steve Ackerman the next vice chancellor for research and graduate education, one of a handful of high-profile positions that report directly to Blank. The job entails overseeing $1.2 billion in annual research spending and thousands of graduate students....
Forward Biolabs opened in February 2019 at 504 South Rosa Road after starting in temporary space the previous September. The facility has one main goal, said CEO Jessica Martin Eckerly. “The whole purpose is to minimize the hurdles to starting a biotech company in Wisconsin,”...
“There’s a lot of issues with global warming and climate change, and (petroleum) is a non-renewable resource. It’s going to run out one day,” Barnett said. “If we want to still have paints and coatings in 50 years, we need to find other ways to...