Stories indexed under: Entrepreneurship

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• Competition set for 100-Hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge Feb. 9, 2010 What can you do with 100 hours and $15 in materials from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's surplus shop?
• Learning community teaches spirit of entrepreneurship Nov. 24, 2009 In high school, computer programmer Tim McGowan enrolled in advanced-placement Latin. When it came time to study for the big exam, he was ready to admit that languages weren't his thing.
• Groups prepare proposal for entrepreneurship certificate Nov. 18, 2009 The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, Initiative for Studies In Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE) and the Wisconsin School of Business are preparing a proposal for a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Events planned for Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 11, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison — along with more than 1,000 organizations worldwide — will mark Global Entrepreneurship Week during the week of Nov. 15.
• New course shows arts students how to become entrepreneurs Nov. 11, 2009 Entrepreneurship programs at UW–Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions. The Wiscontrepreneur program, the Student Venture Seed Grant Program, programs at the Wisconsin School of Business, and other programs and initiatives, recently garnered the university recognition as one of the nation’s top 25 campuses for entrepreneurship.
• Wiscontrepreneur initiative examines entrepreneurship, athletics Oct. 2, 2009 The Office of Corporate Relations is sponsoring "Work Hard, Play Hard," a series of special events during the 2009-10 academic year.
• Entrepreneurship nurtured with seed grants at UW-Madison Sept. 28, 2009 Entrepreneurship is thriving across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and four student-run businesses captured that spirit and have been awarded seed grants to nurture their startups.
• 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.
• 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.
• Notable graduates: Kavi Turnbull — MBA entrepreneur, winner of UW Green Venture Award May 14, 2009 With an unshakeable passion for entrepreneurship, master of business administration student and CEO Kavi Turnbull will graduate this spring.
• Notable graduates: Ben Nyquist — Triple major brings eco-friendly electric bikes to campus May 14, 2009 The road to college graduation was a bit greener for Ben Nyquist, co-founder of EnergE-Bikes.
• Notable graduates: Prince Moody — Football player starts fitness program for low-income kids May 14, 2009 UW-Madison student-athlete Prince Moody will graduate this spring with a bachelor's in history and a plan to give back to the community.
• Canceled: Film documents African American experience on campus May 12, 2009 A student-produced documentary film, "Like Touching A Hot Stove," which provides a window into student life for African Americans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 12.
• UW-Madison engineering student picked for entrepreneurs' program April 20, 2009 Steven Skroch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in biomedical engineering, is one of five students nationwide chosen to help inaugurate an international program in entrepreneurship by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation.
• 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.
• Japanese public TV films Innovation Day inventors at UW-Madison Feb. 24, 2009 A film crew representing a Japanese public broadcast station will be on the College of Engineering campus on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26-27, to interview participants from Innovation Day, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual invention competition.