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  • Third annual 100-Hour Challenge stimulates student entrepreneurship Feb. 3, 2009 In the past, enterprising University of Wisconsin-Madison students have repurposed surplus materials to construct, among other things, a space heater safety alarm, a home reservoir system, a hand-cranking portable power generator and an artistic, wall-mounted light fixture.
  • Journalist to share insights into future of free trade, Doha Jan. 29, 2009 Prize-winning journalist Paul Blustein will visit campus Thursday, Feb. 5, as the featured speaker for “Free Trade under Threat: Impact for U.S. Business,” a public lecture with question-and-answer session hosted by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Wisconsin School of Business.
  • Experts available to discuss the federal economic stimulus package Jan. 29, 2009 As federal lawmakers continue to debate the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA 2009), professional development experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are available to discuss the impact of the legislation on the nation's infrastructure.
  • Arts Enterprise Symposium begins this weekend Jan. 29, 2009 The first-ever University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Enterprise Symposium will help aspiring arts professionals find their place in a world of information about arts careers.
  • UW grads create Web business to save consumers cash on groceries Jan. 26, 2009 It doesn't take a math guru or an economist to know how to save money buying groceries. Or does it? Maybe you should ask the founders of a Web site designed to find the absolute best grocery deals for stores in Madison.
  • New program aims to enhance operations of Wisconsin biotech companies Jan. 22, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) have partnered to launch a biotechnology process improvement program, working with local firms NeoClone in Madison, Catalent in Middleton and Invitrogen in Milwaukee.
  • Arts Enterprise logo Artist confronts those ‘now-what’ moments Jan. 22, 2009 If Stephanie Jutt has her way, there will be no more starving artists who sacrifice well-being to make art.
  • School of Business center, Design Concepts partner on ‘Design Thinking for Business’ Jan. 16, 2009 Innovation has become the most important basis of competitive advantage in today's economy. The stronger the innovation competency a company has, the stronger their overall competitiveness and prosperity.
  • Cellartis, WARF sign license agreement for human embryonic stem cells Jan. 15, 2009 Cellartis AB, a premier provider of human embryonic stem cell (hES) derived products and technologies, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, nonprofit patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced today (Jan. 15) that they have signed a license for hES patents that enables Cellartis to commercialize undifferentiated hES cell products in the U.S.
  • Large-scale nuclear materials study shapes national collaborations Jan. 15, 2009 In Kumar Sridharan's laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus, just one ill-timed sneeze might have catapulted his next three years' worth of nuclear reactor materials research into oblivion.
  • Q&A: Task force considers new non-state campus funding sources Jan. 14, 2009 Michael Knetter, known for his creative fundraising as dean of the School of Business, is stepping into a new role helping the university target new sources of private funding.
  • Curved photodetector array Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos Jan. 13, 2009 Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past.
  • All NIH human embryonic stem cell registry lines now deposited at NSCB Jan. 12, 2009 The U.S. National Stem Cell Bank (NSCB) has announced that it has received deposits of two human embryonic stem cell lines from Cellartis AB, a biotechnology company based in Sweden. With the addition of the new lines, the National Stem Cell Bank now has received all 21 cell lines from the six providers listed on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) federal registry.
  • CALS hosts Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum on Jan. 16 Dec. 30, 2008 Get a first look at the 2009 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report and learn more about the emerging issues and opportunities of Wisconsin agriculture.
  • Dawn Crim Dawn Crim named new special assistant for community relations Dec. 23, 2008 Dawn Crim has been selected from a national search process to lead community relations initiatives for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, effective Jan. 1, 2009, Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin announced today.
  • UW-Madison engineer receives presidential award Dec. 23, 2008 A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineer has been honored with the country's highest honor for scientists at the beginning of their research careers.
  • Image of a motor neuron Patient-derived induced stem cells retain disease traits Dec. 22, 2008 When neurons started dying in Clive Svendsen's lab dishes, he couldn't have been more pleased. The dying cells - the same type lost in patients with the devastating neurological disease spinal muscular atrophy - confirmed that the University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell biologist had recreated the hallmarks of a genetic disorder in the lab, using stem cells derived from a patient.
  • James Thomson receives 2008 Massry Prize honoring stem cell researchers Dec. 18, 2008 James Thomson, director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research and John D. MacArthur Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, has received the prestigious Massry Prize for 2008. The award recognizes Thomson for his groundbreaking discovery made a decade ago of human embryonic stem (ES) cells and his subsequent work in developing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
  • VistaGen, WARF sign license agreement for human embryonic stem cell technology Dec. 18, 2008 VistaGen Therapeutics and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell patents for the development and commercialization of stem cell-based research tools.
  • Martin names business school dean to coordinate strategy, development Dec. 10, 2008 Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin today announced the appointment of Michael Knetter, dean of the business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as special assistant/liaison to the chancellor for long-term strategy and development.