In new research published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research used advanced metabolic imaging to watch neutrophils at the moment they perform their quick-changing act....
Wisconsin is #4 best state to live according to WalletHub. To find out the best states to live in, WalletHub compared the 50 states based on 51 key indicators of livability. They range from housing costs and income growth to the education rate and quality...
With ever more electric vehicles on the road, regulators and automakers are considering what can be done with the millions of batteries that power EVs after they’re spent. A group of University of Wisconsin–Madison chemists are hopeful they’ve found a solution, and they’re already filing...
Scott Ross, who co-founded the Academy Award-winning studio Digital Domain Inc., discussed this topic during last week’s Forward Fest in Madison. Ross led Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic in the 1980s and later launched Digital Domain, Inc. in 1993 alongside film director James Cameron....
This summer, UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Autonomous team made headlines—earning an impressive 2nd place finish in Year 4 of the SAE Autodrive Challenge II....
More than a decade ago, EnsoData began as a university-born innovation—co-founded by then–University of Wisconsin-Madison student Chris Fernandez—and today it’s a thriving example of how research can translate into real-world impact....
“It’s important to understand the extent of changes in the material because that will determine how long the fuel can be used,” says Raphaëlle David, a PhD student in nuclear engineering and engineering physics at UW-Madison...
A Madison-based startup called Strudel has won this year’s Pressure Chamber pitch competition with its AI-based tech support platform. The contest was held yesterday afternoon at The Sylvee music venue in Madison as part of Forward Fest, an annual event series focused on entrepreneurship and...
The Morgridge Institute hosted its 19th annual Summer Science Camp this past July. Over three week-long sessions, 65 high school students from 13 Wisconsin school districts experienced science firsthand, and got a taste of college life during their stay on the UW–Madison campus....
The intent of the UW DRF Program is to support exceptional emerging scholars from around the world in collaborative research that takes place at UW–Madison and spans two distinct units (schools, colleges, centers), and that synergizes distinct disciplinary approaches....
Brickerman, a founding leader of Wisconsin-based tech incubator gener8tor, has spent more than eight years driving innovation, investment and entrepreneurial growth in Wisconsin and beyond....
Erik Iverson, WARF’s CEO, is shepherding the organization into its next century, when inventions center on sectors like biotechnology and fusion. “It’s an honor to be at WARF after 100 years,” Iverson said, “being an institution that is globally known for what it does, and...
Along with the longstanding Badger Startup Summit, Forward Festival features the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s Pressure Chamber pitch competition, seminars on growing a business and other topics, social gatherings, as well as numerous programs focused on AI, cybersecurity and much more....
Exact Sciences Corp. and Freenome, a biotechnology company pioneering an early cancer detection platform, today announced they have entered into an agreement under which Exact Sciences will acquire exclusive rights in the United States to current and future versions of Freenome’s blood-based, single indication, colorectal...
The Wisconsin Portfolio was released yesterday, offering an in-depth look at 2024 early-stage investing activity in the state. The full release comes after the Tech Council last month shared some early figures from the report, showing the state last year saw about $374 million in...
Today the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce announced the five finalists that will take the stage at the 12th annual Pressure Chamber on Aug. 19 at The Sylvee....
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is executing its campus entrepreneurship plan with the formation of a new entity, the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub. The Hub, aimed at strengthening entrepreneurial pathways, was approved by campus governance in May, and a search for its first executive director is underway....
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new technique to map the quantum phase diagram in a promising class of quantum materials called Weyl semimetals by tracking “hotspots” in an unusual quantum phenomenon called the nonlinear Hall effect....
John Curtin’s lab is using artificial intelligence to help people who struggle with alcohol or substance abuse avoid relapses. Curtin and his colleagues are deploying machine-learning algorithms to hone and give feedback on the effectiveness — and fairness — of the tools they have developed....
The authors of a report in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS) argue that the standard communication model of disseminating the facts and assuming “the truth will prevail” is increasingly falling on deaf ears....