For exemplary contributions to Wisconsin innovation, WiSys honors two professors and a team of three students as 2020 Carl E. Gulbrandsen Innovators of the Year.
The innovators are:
- UW-Eau Claire Associate Professor Elizabeth Glogowski
- UW-Parkside Associate Professor Francis “Frannie” Mann
- UW Oshkosh’s Jessica Tarter, Parker Schmidt and Macall Hill
The Carl E. Gulbrandsen Innovator of the Year Award is presented to a UW System faculty, staff member or student making exemplary contributions as an innovator. The award was created to honor the former managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation who supported WiSys throughout his 16-year tenure.
WiSys is a nonprofit organization that works with faculty, staff, students and alumni of the UW System to facilitate cutting-edge research programs, develop and commercialize discoveries, and foster a spirit of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking across the state. In 2020, WiSys universities were second in SMU’s national Innovation Impact Productivity Rankings for smaller research universities.
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