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Terry Sivesind, whose career has included co-founding six life sciences companies and a mentoring group that has assisted scores of young firms, will accept the “Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education” award at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium in Madison. Sivesind...
Foxconn launches “Smart Cities – Smart Futures Competition”
Foxconn announced a statewide “Smart Cities – Smart Futures” Competition in August during the Smart Futures Summit at the UW-Parkside. Students, faculty and staff at all of Wisconsin’s technical colleges, private colleges and universities and the UW System are...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Entrepreneur Agrawal off and running … again
Last we heard from Rupesh Agrawal, he had recently sold his startup company to a St. Louis tech firm for millions of dollars. That was in 2014. So what has the Milwaukee Business Journal 40 Under 40 alum, who in less than a decade built that startup into one of the...
WisBusiness: The Podcast with Tobias Zutz, founder and CEO of Gregor Diagnostics
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Tobias Zutz, founder and CEO of Madison-based Gregor Diagnostics. He’s developing a method to test seminal fluid for signs of prostate cancer. Zutz is a former employee of Exact Sciences in Madison, which has...
InsideWis: Improving academic research payoff in Wisconsin requires people, facilities
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – By some standards, Wisconsin is a leader among the states when it comes to academic research. Its public and private colleges and universities attract as much as $1.7 billion per year in merit-based grants and contracts to study and...
Foxconn’s Director of U.S. Strategic Initiatives, Alan Yeung, shared details about a new partnership with UW-Madison at the recent Foxconn Day event.
Students were invited to bring their resumes to UW-Madison's Engineering Hall and interface with representatives of Foxconn's various product categories. This comes several months after Foxconn announced it would invest $100 million in engineering and other programs...