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• Ag industry views on food, farming and Michael Pollan to be discussed Sept. 23, 2009 Viewpoints from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, Organic Valley Co-op and the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection board regarding food, farming and the work of author Michael Pollan will be presented in a panel discussion on Thursday, Oct. 1.
• UW-Madison entrepreneurship programs ranked 11th Sept. 23, 2009 Entrepreneurship programs at the Wisconsin School of Business rank among the best in the nation, according to a recently published survey conducted by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine.
• WiCell donates $1 million in gear to UW-Madison labs Sept. 15, 2009 Four advanced pieces of scientific laboratory equipment with a total value of approximately $1 million now are available for use by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell and other researchers at several campus departments and centers due to a donation by the private nonprofit WiCell Research Institute.
• Intersection of art and business examined in 'Art as Business as Art' course Sept. 8, 2009 On his recent whistle-stop "Arts in Crisis" tour, the Kennedy Center's Michael Kaiser bemoaned how much more money goes into training artists to be good artists than to be good managers of their own careers.
• Aova moves feed additive invented at UW-Madison into Asian markets Aug. 25, 2009 Aova Technologies Inc., a startup company that produces animal feed additives based on University of Wisconsin-Madison technology and licensed through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), has completed two key goals in its efforts to capture part of the $70 billion global aquaculture market.
• UW-Madison ranks ninth in U.S. News report Aug. 20, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked ninth among public institutions in annual rankings released Aug. 20 in the U.S. News and World Report's 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges.
• Research shows advertisers new ways to hunt for TV bargains Aug. 18, 2009 The scene is played out in living rooms across America daily: A favorite television show builds to its riveting conclusion, and a commercial for fast food, automobiles or laundry detergent fills the screen.
• WARF, Cargill sign agreement for patented canola breeding technology Aug. 11, 2009 The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cargill have entered into a license agreement for patented canola breeding technology.
• Scientists make multiple types of white blood cells directly from embryonic and adult stem cells Aug. 11, 2009 In an advance that could help transform embryonic stem cells into a multipurpose medical tool, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have transformed these versatile cells into progenitors of white blood cells and into six types of mature white blood and immune cells.
• Gasoline-diesel cocktail: a potent recipe for cleaner, more efficient engines Aug. 3, 2009 Diesel and gasoline fuel sources both bring unique assets and liabilities to powering internal combustion engines.
• Stimulus funds begin to bolster UW-Madison research portfolio July 29, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's nearly $840 million research portfolio, one of the top three in the country, will become even larger as federal agencies begin to dole out new stimulus grants.
• Faculty aim to strengthen technology, science education by blending them July 24, 2009 A group of UW-Madison researchers and Thermo Fisher Scientific scientists will bring together high school students and teachers to build and use diagnostic equipment that would not be out of place in university research labs.
• New UW-Madison startup census seeks community input July 17, 2009 From educational software to embryonic stem cells, University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, students and staff are well-known for creating new knowledge and businesses - and an ongoing count of university-related startups bears that out.
• Study suggests H1N1 virus more dangerous than suspected July 13, 2009 A new, highly detailed study of the H1N1 flu virus shows that the pathogen is more virulent than previously thought.
• UW-Madison expands agreement with Google July 9, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison has expanded its agreement with Google to digitize books from UW-Madison's collection and make them available online.
• First cGMP feeder-independent pluripotent stem cell banks released for distribution July 6, 2009 The WiCell Research Institute and the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility (WCBF) announced today (July 6) the release of the first current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) feeder-independent pluripotent stem cell banks available for sale and distribution to researchers worldwide.
• Registration now open for Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium July 2, 2009 The second annual Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium, to be held July 23 and 24, will bring together science and technology researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors from across the state to help them share ideas and spark new collaborations.
• Five big ideas to fill out Wisconsin Institute for Discovery portfolio June 30, 2009 Capping an intensely competitive process, five proposals from University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been selected to form the intellectual heart of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID).
• Cellectar shares inventor, investor and CEO perspectives at WARF Gilson Series June 18, 2009 The perspectives of the inventor, investor and CEO of Madison's rising startup radiopharmaceutical company Cellectar Inc. will be the focus of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's Gilson Discovery Series event, to be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, at the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave.
• Popular Science cites Wisconsin inventor among nation's best June 1, 2009 Madison-area entrepreneur Ben Hobbins is among the nation's top 10 inventors featured in the June issue of Popular Science magazine. The magazine cites Hobbins, CEO of Lake Resources Group, for the novel fiber-reinforced soft-bait fishing lures he developed in collaboration with Tim Osswald, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of mechanical engineering.