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  • Shanghai office seeks to increase engagement May 21, 2013 In its first year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Shanghai Innovation Office (SIO) has hosted high-level delegations, coordinated conferences that have brought together Wisconsin and Chinese experts from academia as well as from the public and private sectors, and facilitated collaborative agreements.
  • New tech-enhanced grocery shopping experience wins Innovative Minds Prize May 15, 2013 Fetch Rewards LLC, a mobile application designed to reinvent the grocery shopping experience, won the $10,000 Innovative Minds Challenge on May 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Advanced manufacturing focus of June 10-14 conference May 7, 2013 Featuring a broad swath of leading-edge research from around the world, an advanced manufacturing research conference June 10-14, 2013, will draw nearly 500 academic, industrial and governmental participants to the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.
  • Business, human ecology schools open experimental, collaborative lab April 23, 2013 Faculty and students from two UW-Madison schools are celebrating the opening of a new experimental lab — a collaboration between the School of Human Ecology and the Wisconsin School of Business to create a learning and research community within the university.
  • Madison startup company mounting two-pronged attack against influenza April 22, 2013 As a new type of "bird flu" causes deaths and worries in China, a Madison startup is attacking the problem on two fronts. FluGen, under the scientific guidance of University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a world authority on influenza, is moving ahead with a better way to deliver existing vaccines and a novel "universal" flu vaccine.
  • WARF’s support for startups expands April 9, 2013 The announcement of a new source of investment capital for campus information technology entrepreneurs, or researchers aspiring to join their ranks, adds to a growing list of initiatives to speed the transfer of technologies from UW–Madison labs for the benefit of the public and advancing the pace of university innovation.
  • PwC donates $1.1 million to Wisconsin School of Business March 13, 2013 PwC US representatives today presented a donation of more than $1.1 million, which will pay for a professorship and support programs for students, to Wisconsin School of Business students, faculty and staff.
  • UW faculty dissect growing relationship with China Feb. 1, 2013 In forging connections with China, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created an international model for the university. An upcoming panel of UW-Madison faculty will examine how this partnership with China is evolving and what it means for the future of the university and the student experience.
  • Lighting pioneer, brainchild of UW-Madison students, prospers in Middleton Jan. 10, 2013 The opening line was decidedly off-hand for a performance that has run for more than three decades on Broadway and off: "Gak, this is disgusting, I can do it for $5,000!"
  • Chancellor search reaches out to business community Nov. 29, 2012 Local business leaders told the committee charged with finding UW–Madison’s next chancellor that they want a leader for the university who recognizes the opportunities provided by active collaboration with the city and business community.
  • Analytical tool is focus of spinoff firm Nov. 20, 2012 A new company making a high-speed, accurate and user-friendly instrument that reveals the molecular structure of proteins, drugs, and other important materials is the latest spinoff from the University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry department.
  • Forum to cover intellectual property basics for students Nov. 13, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation will be able to learn more about protecting and commercializing their ideas at a forum on Dec. 10.
  • Meeting on startup funding features UW–Madison Internet Hall of Famer Nov. 5, 2012 Larry Landweber, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor who was one of 31 inaugural members of the Internet Society's global hall of fame, will speak Nov. 13 at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium in Madison.
  • UW Center for Dairy Research wins federal innovation grant Sept. 21, 2012 The Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research (CDR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded one of seven $1 million i6 Challenge grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce to support an effort to commercialize research ideas that will positively impact economic development.
  • AhR Pharma and WARF sign exclusive license for cancer-fighting hormone Aug. 13, 2012 AhR Pharmaceuticals Inc. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have signed an exclusive license agreement for ITE, a natural hormone discovered by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers with properties helpful in treating cancer, obesity and immune system disorders.
  • Corporate open house: For industry, UW-Madison is 'one-stop shopping' July 19, 2012 On July 12, representatives from more than 40 companies in industries ranging from manufacturing and biotech to construction and food production attended the first-annual UW-Madison corporate open house.
  • Business school partnership advances real estate program June 18, 2012 A new partnership agreement between the Wisconsin School of Business and the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) will bring some of the brightest students from Shanghai to Madison to study in the innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) program.
  • Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center marks first issued patent June 18, 2012 The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is marking the arrival of summer with a milestone: the first patent issued on the center's technology.
  • In Shanghai, UW–Madison inaugurates first overseas office June 11, 2012 The UW–Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will serve as a focal point for the university’s growing engagement in China and across East Asia, has officially opened.
  • Wisconsin School of Business names Linder chief communications officer June 8, 2012 Meloney Linder has joined the Wisconsin School of Business as its first chief communications officer. Linder comes to the Wisconsin School of Business after serving in administration for the University of Texas at Brownsville since 2008, where she oversaw the areas of marketing, communications and, most recently, institutional advancement.