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• From snowblowers to automotive improvements: Student innovators prepare to compete Feb. 7, 2011 UW-Madison undergraduate student inventors will display 22 inventions as part of the annual Innovation Days competitions, to be held Feb. 10 and 11 in Engineering Hall on the College of Engineering campus.
  The inventors will present their ideas and demonstrate prototypes in hopes of earning a share of more than $27,000 in prizes in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity and Tong Prototype Prize competitions.
• WARF debuts Gilson Bootstrapping Series at Discovery Town Center on Jan. 25 Jan. 24, 2011 Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Office of Corporate Relations will be the first speaker featured in WARF's new Gilson Bootstrapping Series. He will discuss the wide variety of resources available to new entrepreneurs, or to those just thinking about starting a business, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25.
• Spring Career and Internship Fair set for Jan. 25 Jan. 20, 2011
• UW-Madison business school welcomes international real estate students Jan. 19, 2011 Thirteen students from around the world have converged at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be part of a one-of-a-kind experience as the inaugural class of the Wisconsin Real Estate Program's Global Real Estate Master's program (GREM).
• Report: Better milk prices helped Wisconsin dairy farmers begin to recover Jan. 19, 2011 Things couldn't have gone better for Wisconsin corn and soybean producers in 2010. For milk producers, they went a lot better than they did a year ago, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists in their 2011 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report.
• UW will present 2011 Wisconsin Ag Outlook Forum Jan. 19 Jan. 7, 2011 Agricultural economists and commodity specialists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension will talk about the financial health of Wisconsin agriculture and the outlook for the year to come at the fourth-annual Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook forum in Madison on Wednesday, Jan. 19.
• UW-Madison among leaders in producing CEOs Jan. 4, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among the leaders in producing chief executive officers of major corporations, according to a new study from U.S. News & World Report.
• A rosy outlook for UW licensed Rose Bowl gear Dec. 29, 2010 Snow and frigid temps haven't stopped the roses from blooming in Madison - on T-shirts, mugs and hats commemorating the Badgers' trip to the 2011 Rose Bowl, which sprouted up in local stores shortly after the bowl picks were announced.
• A campus update from Chancellor Biddy Martin Dec. 8, 2010
• Suri named to IndustryWeek "dream team" Nov. 30, 2010
• Innovative and sustainable lighting solutions with global impact illuminated at Nov. 18 talk Nov. 17, 2010 While in the United States lights and electricity are ubiquitous, oil lamps and candles serve as the sole source of light for a quarter of the world's population.
• World War II veteran gets his degree 69 years after leaving UW Nov. 10, 2010 In June of 1941, Lyle Francis Robert Knudson, a University of Wisconsin senior from Racine, was called to active duty in the U.S. Navy. He was told to report to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois on June 13, the same day on which his last two final exams were scheduled.
• UW-Madison to again celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 10, 2010 The University of Wisconsin-Madison - along with more than 1,500 organizations worldwide - will mark Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Nov. 15-21.
• Wisconsin MBA students to meet with Warren Buffett Oct. 20, 2010 Twenty students from the full-time University of Wisconsin-Madison MBA program will travel to Omaha on Thursday, Oct. 21, to share a meal and an experience of a lifetime with Warren Buffett, chair and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world's most successful investors.
• University Research Park has an $825 million annual impact, study says Oct. 12, 2010
• Grainger Goes Pink to support breast cancer awareness Oct. 8, 2010 October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the Wisconsin School of Business is spreading awareness with an innovative week of programming as part of Grainger Goes Pink, a celebration and fundraiser founded by alumnus Jon Fasoli, who had a family member with the illness.
• In Wisconsin, 75 percent of economic benefit of Bt corn goes to farmers who don’t plant it Oct. 7, 2010 Widespread planting of genetically modified Bt corn throughout the Upper Midwest has suppressed populations of the European corn borer, a major insect pest of corn, with the majority of the economic benefits going to growers who do not plant Bt corn, reports a multistate team of scientists in the Oct. 8 edition of the journal Science.
• Team receives funds to advance development of production method for medical isotopes Oct. 4, 2010 An acute shortage of a medical isotope needed by tens of thousands of medical patients daily will be addressed through a federal funding agreement reached Sept. 30 to advance pioneering technology developed at a Middleton, Wis., company and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Political features writer, Silicon Valley business reporter to visit campus Sept. 28, 2010 A writer who chronicles the personalities in the nation’s capital and a reporter on the world’s biggest technology companies will visit campus as writers in residence.
• Google executive to address Wisconsin industry at e-business conference Sept. 24, 2010 Record attendance is expected at the 12th annual Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference, which will be hosted Thursday, Sept. 30, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Consortium.