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Three University of Wisconsin–Madison students have received 2025 Goldwater Scholarships, considered the country’s preeminent undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. UW–Madison’s winners are juniors Alissa Choi and Pramana Saldin and sophomore Elliott Weix....

The Wisconsin Union team will begin its annual, months-long outdoor entertainment and dining festival, called Terrace Season, with the return of the terrace chairs to the outdoor space of the Memorial Union Terrace on April 16, followed by a Terrace Chair Return Party on April...

The latest episode features John Neis of Venture Investors LLC, which has offices in Madison and Ann Arbor, Mich. He talks about trends in early stage investing and what’s needed to help Wisconsin move ahead. The Show also reviews recent and upcoming Tech Council events....

Scientists at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) and the Morgridge Institute for Research at the UW–Madison have been at the forefront of stem cell research and regenerative biology since James Thomson isolated the first human embryonic stem cell in 1998....

According to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women-Owned Business Report, the number of women-owned businesses between 2019 and 2023 increased at nearly double the rate of those owned by men; and from 2022 to 2023, the rate of growth increased to 4.5 times....

Business owners of color are a large and growing share of the business community in Wisconsin, but they still face many barriers to growth, according to a series of new reports out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Community Economic Development program....

While Wisconsin still has yet to see any cases of bird flu in dairy cattle, the head of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory warns the impact of the virus could hit rural communities hardest....

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which handles patenting and licensing for UW-Madison research, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Burmania discusses the organization’s efforts to identify “the great innovations” being developed on campus with prospects for commercialization....

Dear readers: We are very grateful for your continued interest in the Morgridge Institute for Research, and we hope this newsletter offers a useful snapshot of some of the remarkable work our scientists do every day to answer fundamental questions in biomedicine....