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• Meeting, deadline approach for Kauffman internship program March 6, 2009 Students interested in the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program (KECIP), an innovative opportunity for students to become social entrepreneurs, are invited to attend an informational session on Wednesday, March 11.
• 100-Hour Challenge winners represent campus creativity, ingenuity March 2, 2009 Where else at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would someone find high fashion, conservation initiatives, die-hard partiers and fish in the same competition?
• Biotech pioneer presents ‘From Research to Commercial Reality, in the New World’ March 2, 2009 Famed chemist, biotech pioneer and Harvard University professor George M. Whitesides will present "From Research to Commercial Reality, in the New World" at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 9, at the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave.
• Winners of 100-Hour Challenge to be announced March 2 Feb. 27, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Corporate Relations will announce the winners of this year's 100-Hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 2, at Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive.
• Chemistry meets biology at screening center Feb. 26, 2009 When University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist Nancy Keller and her team managed to genetically trick fungi into making metabolic byproducts that are notoriously difficult for scientists to get at, she wondered if the substances might have any clinically useful properties.
• Entrepreneurialism class of 130 participates in 100-Hour Challenge Feb. 23, 2009 This year's third annual 100-Hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge has caught the attention of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Entrepreneurialism in Society class.
• Genetic information personalizes warfarin prescribing Feb. 18, 2009 Warfarin, one of the world's most widely used drugs, is also one of the trickiest to prescribe. Half of those who take it are at risk of serious problems when given the standard starting dose.
• Experts discuss supporting young businesses at WARF’s Gilson Event Feb. 18, 2009 A panel of experts committed to providing guidance and services to entrepreneurs will share information on "Funding and Resources for Young Businesses" at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Gilson Discovery event on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. in the Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue.
• Course builds community of biomedical entrepreneurs Feb. 16, 2009 A new multidisciplinary course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is preparing entrepreneurial graduate students to bring biomedical innovations to the patients who need them.
• UW students to get prepared for life at financial independence seminar Feb. 16, 2009 Students looking to prepare for life, from first-year students to seniors about to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are invited to get expert financial advice at an exclusive weekend event.
• iPhone sleep improvement application wins at innovation competition Feb. 12, 2009 A software application for the iPhone and the iPod touch that will help people sleep and wake up more effectively won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison invention competition that rewards innovative and marketable ideas.
• Graduate student’s software innovation helps harness brainstorming Feb. 11, 2009 One success of the UW-Madison Reaccreditation Project gave rise to an even bigger challenge: namely, what to make of tens of thousands of open-ended observations about the university’s future? One clever software solution, developed by math graduate student Erik Andrejko, may end up finding a useful home with any organization in the throes of strategic planning.
• Green is the trend for UW design students Feb. 11, 2009 With the economy in recession and consumers looking to cut costs however they can, it may not seem like the best time to focus on fashion and design. But students in the School of Human Ecology are doing just that in a course focused on creating products and apparel that are not only sustainable, but people actually want to buy.
• New Arts Venture Challenge awards student innovators Feb. 10, 2009 It's not every day that a judge is so torn between two competitors that he produces $500 out of his own pocket just so he won't have to choose.
• Two-step chemical process turns raw biomass into biofuel Feb. 10, 2009 Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material.
• Curiosities: What’s the difference between an economic recession and a depression? Feb. 9, 2009
• UW-Madison: Russell Athletic relationship will end Feb. 5, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will end its business relationship with Russell Athletic at the expiration of its current licensing agreement in March.
• Paper industry executive to lead Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative Feb. 3, 2009 Troy Runge, research director at Kimberly-Clark Corp., has been named director of the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI).
• 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.